National Review, April 29th, 1988
ATHENS: LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT
The Trial of Socrates
SINCE I. F. STONE'S admirers like to compare him to Socrates, you'd think he'd be kindly disposed toward the old gadfly. No such thing. The Trial of Socrates tries to show that Socrates begged for all the trouble he got.
Stone has spent well-publicized years studying ancient Greek and doing "investigative journalism" on the Socrates case. He goes back to the sources and reads Plato (for instance) as a valuable though unreliable witness, gleaning giveaway details while brushing aside all the philosophy as so much mumbo-jumbo--a mystificatio...
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