In the New York Times, Paul Berman reviewed a bio and a collection of writings by I.F. Stone. Clive Davis muses over it on his blog. And Richard John Neuhaus, who knew him somewhat when they were both involved in “The Movement” in the 1960s, delivers a fairly devastating post over at On the Square.

I remember thinking at the time that some of the stories were probably not true, and that he knew it, which did not diminish his delight in telling them. When you´re “speaking truth to power,” you need not be too scrupulous about the truths you´re speaking. Izzy Stone was a hard-of-hearing, thick-spectacled, quizzical little man who exuded delight in fighting the good fight, as he understood the fight. He had no difficulty in separating the children of light from the children of darkness, and there was no room for shadows or ambiguities.

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