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Article: Socrates and Stone: Gadflies for the ages
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 24, 1988
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. . . Socrates would have found it repugnant to plead a
principle in which he did not believe; free speech was for him the
privilege of the enlightened few, not the benighted many. He would
not have wanted the democracy he rejected to win a moral victory by
setting him free.
- From The Trial
of Socrates,
by I. F. Stone (above)
The Trial of Socrates By I. F. Stone. Little, Brown. $18.95.
I. F. Stone A Portrait. By Andrew Patner. Pantheon. $14.95.
For 66 years now, I. F. Stone has been one of the most
interesting journalists in America. He began his career as a high
school kid of 14, sole editor of a short-lived monthly paper called
Progress. (His ideas of progress, back there in ...