Ira Stoll
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Ira Stoll | |
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| Born | 1972 (age 53–54) |
Ira Stoll (born 1972) is editor of The Editors,[1] a columnist for the Algemeiner, and he writes a column that appears in The New York Sun, Reason, Newsmax, the New Boston Post and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He was editor of FutureOfCapitalism.com[2] from 2009 to 2024. He was managing editor of Education Next, an American education policy journal based at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2019 to 2023.[3] He was vice president and managing editor of the daily newspaper, The New York Sun, which was published from 2002 to 2008.[4] He founded Smartertimes.com.[5] Previously, he was Washington correspondent and managing editor of The Forward and the North American editor of the Jerusalem Post. He is a graduate of Worcester Academy and Harvard University, where he graduated in 1994, and was president of The Harvard Crimson.[6]
Stoll is the author of Samuel Adams: A Life, a 2008 biography of the life of the Founding Father Samuel Adams. The biography received praise, but was also criticized as incomplete in the Journal of American History.[7] Other reviews noted that the biography was written from a politically conservative point of view.[8]
Stoll also published a 2013 biography of former United States President John F. Kennedy, titled JFK, Conservative, in which Stoll argues that President Kennedy is properly characterized as a political conservative.[9]
