Editing Victor Navasky (section)

== Early life and education ==
Victor Saul Navasky was born in July 1932 on the [[Upper West Side]] of Manhattan, the son of Esther (Goldberg) and Macy Navasky.<ref name = Berger/><ref>{{Cite news |title = 'A Matter of Opinion' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/books/chapters/0529-1st-navasky.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |newspaper = The New York Times|date = May 29, 2005|last1 = Navasky|first1 = Victor S.}}</ref> Macy ran a small clothing-manufacturing business in the [[Garment District, Manhattan|Garment District]].<ref name=HBS_alumni_article/> Victor attended grade school in [[Greenwich Village]]. In 1946, when he was in the eighth grade, he helped raise money for the [[Irgun Zvai Leumi]] — by passing a contribution basket at performances of [[Ben Hecht]]’s play, ''A Flag is Born''.<ref>Victor Navasky, "El Sid," ''Tablet Magazine,'' August 12, 2009</ref> For high school, he attended the [[Little Red School House]], which was founded on the [[progressive education]] principles of [[John Dewey]].<ref name=LATimes_obit/>

Navasky was a graduate of [[Swarthmore College]] (1954) where he edited the student newspaper.<ref name = Berger/> He was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]] and received high honors in the social sciences.<ref name=HBS_alumni_article/> He then served in the [[United States Army]] from 1954 to 1956. He was stationed at [[Fort Richardson (Alaska)|Fort Richardson]] in [[Alaska]] and dabbled a bit as a military journalist. Following his discharge, he enrolled in [[Yale Law School]] on the [[G.I. Bill]] and received his [[LL.B.]] in 1959.<ref name=Victor_Navasky_papers/>

While at Yale Law, Navasky co-founded with Richard Lingeman a magazine of political satire called ''[[Monocle (satirical magazine)|Monocle]]'', which ran until 1965.<ref>{{cite web |title=Richard Lingeman |url=https://www.richardlingeman.com/ |publisher=RichardLingeman.com |access-date=14 February 2023}}</ref> Navasky recruited numerous contributors and illustrators for the magazine who went on to noteworthy careers.<ref>{{cite web |last=Heller |first=Steven |date=29 December 2016 |title=When Politics Was Art |publisher=The Daily Heller |url=https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/when-politics-was-art/ |via=printmag.com}}</ref> [[Nora Ephron]], a ''Monocle'' contributor, remembered Navasky as a man "who knew important people, and he knew people he made you think were important simply because he knew them."<ref name=LATimes_obit>{{cite news |last=Italie |first=Hillel |date=24 January 2023 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |title=Victor Navasky, historian and Nation editor, dies at 90 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-01-24/victor-navasky-historian-and-nation-editor-dies-at-90}}</ref> Eventually, Navasky realized his greatest passion was for journalism, and he chose it as his profession ahead of law.<ref name=HBS_alumni_article/>