A Matter of Opinion

Matthew Rothschild reviews A Matter of Opinion By Victor S. Navasky

Then, it being The Nation, there is the question of its politics. In the historical chapter entitled "Looking Backward," Navasky escorts us through the 140 years of the publication. He strains to defend the publication against the charge that it was soft on Stalin, but ultimately he cops a plea to Susan Sontag's indictment that subscribers to Reader's Digest would have had a better grasp of the horrors of the Soviet Union than subscribers to The Nation.

The Progressive August 2005