![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Navasky offered a sense of his editorial approach in an interview with The Brooklyn Rail in 2002. He stepped down as publisher in 2005, succeeded by Ms. Navasky also provided a forum for feminist voices, like those of Katha Pollitt and Katrina vanden Heuvel, who succeeded him as editor in 1995 when he led a group of investors in buying the magazine and became its publisher. In addition to adopting an irreverent tone in his own articles, he encouraged idiosyncratic writers like Alexander Cockburn, Christopher Hitchens and Calvin Trillin, who in his “Uncivil Liberties” column referred to his boss as “the wily and parsimonious Victor S. Navasky introduced a droll sensibility that leavened the magazine’s sometimes too-earnest prose. ![]() The Nation, based in New York, was founded in 1865 by abolitionists and had long been an influential voice for civil rights, free expression, progressive labor legislation and criticism of the Vietnam War. Navasky, a witty and contrarian journalist who for 27 years as either editor or publisher commanded The Nation, the left-leaning magazine that is America’s oldest weekly, and who also wrote the book “Naming Names,” a breakthrough chronicle of the Hollywood blacklisting era, died on Monday in Manhattan. Navasky, a Leading Liberal Voice in Journalism, Dies at 90”: From a New York Times obit by Joseph Berger headlined “Victor S. ![]()
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