![]() ![]() ![]() Army, he enrolled in Yale Law School and quickly became part of the journalism establishment, working for The New York Times as an editor, writer and columnist.īut it was at The Nation that Navasky's singular voice became a clarion call for the left. He attended progressive educational institutions, including Rudolph Steiner School and Swarthmore College. Navasky, the second child of a clothing manufacturer, was also a scion of the Upper West Side in Manhattan. "It's a rallying point for people who feel that they're not represented at the highest levels of power." Bush administration and the soaring number of subscriptions his publication saw after the advent of the second Gulf War. ![]() He was alluding to the magazine's pointed criticism of the George W. "For many years, we had a bad joke: If it's bad for the country, it's good for The Nation," Navasky told NPR in 2009. The cause was pneumonia, his son Bruno Navasky told NPR. He also worked as the magazine's publisher, and then publisher emeritus until his death Monday at a hospital in New York. He started as editor in 1978, a year when teachers's strikes and the Camp David Accords ruled the headlines. Navasky ran The Nation, one of the oldest magazines in America, with a sharp progressive bent. ![]()
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