ABSTRACT
In the February 1988 issue of “Harper’s” appears an article by I. F. Stone entitled “When Free Speech Was First Condemned—the Trial of Socrates Reconsidered”. This is an excerpt from his new book “The Trial of Socrates”. “Harper’s” also published, in 1981, “Plato’s Ideal Bedlam” by the same author. Now Mr. Stone is over eighty, and for many years issued from Washington D.C. a weekly journal “L F. Stone’s Weekly” which was one of the most diligently read journals of political comment. In his “retirement” he taught himself ancient Greek so that he could study and write about Athenian political thought and usage. Stone has thus carried forward the flowing current of classical thought which is clearly, despite modernist opposition, an integral and continuous part of culture in the U.S. since its beginnings.
