Top Highlights

• works on our Forbidden Bookshelf shed new light—for most of us, it’s still new light—on the most troubling trends and episodes in US history, especially since World War II:
• Like the vast majority of American Jews of his generation, I. F. Stone was not, originally, a Zionist.
• their promised land was America, not Palestine.
• the rising tide of domestic anti-Semitism that in 1937 led Feinstein—then the chief editorial writer for the New York Post and a frequent contributor to both the Nation and the New Republic—to change his name.
• Stone’s support for the Spanish Republic got the paper banned by the Catholic archdiocese;