Ira Stoll

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Ira Stoll
Born1972 (age 5354)

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]

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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]

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  1. "About - The Editors". The Editors. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  2. Sundt, Kassandra; Brooks, Anthony (18 December 2017). "How The GOP Tax Bill Could Affect Massachusetts Residents". WBUR. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  3. "Ira Stoll, Author at Education Next". Education Next. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
  4. Carr, David (1 March 2002). "The Birth of the Sun". The Atlantic. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
    - Taranto, James (30 September 2008). "New York Sunset" . Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  5. "All the news that's fit to print". The Economist. 22 February 2001. ISSN   0013-0613 . Retrieved 18 November 2020.
    - Lubove, Seth. "The Net vs. The Mass Media". Forbes. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  6. Parr, Molly. "Four Questions with Ira Stoll, Author and Blogger". Jewish Boston. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  7. Gilje, Paul (1 December 2009). "Samuel Adams: A Life. By Ira Stoll (Book Review)". Journal of American History. 96 (3): 823. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  8. "Samuel Adams: A Life (Book Review)". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  9. Healy, Gene (20 November 2013). "Kennedy Was No Conservative". The American Conservative. Retrieved 31 December 2025.