Victor Saul Navasky (July 5, 1932 – January 23, 2023) was an American journalist, editor, and academic. He was publisher emeritus of The Nation and George T. Delacorte Professor Emeritus of Professional Practice in Magazine Journalism at Columbia University. He was editor of The Nation from 1978 until 1995 and its publisher and editorial director from 1995 to 2005. Navasky's book Naming Names (1980) is considered a definitive take on the Hollywood blacklist. For it he won a 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He was awarded the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by Harvard's Nieman Foundation in 2017. Early life and education Navasky was born on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the son of Esther (Goldberg) and Macy Navasky. In 1946, when he was in the eighth grade, he helped to raise money for the Irgun Zvai Leumi — by passing a contribution basket at performances of Ben Hecht’s play, A Flag is Born. He was a graduate of Swarthmore College (1954), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received high honors in the social sciences. While serving in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956, he was stationed at Fort Richardson in Alaska. Following his discharge, he enrolled in Yale Law School on the G.I. Bill and received his LL.B. in 1959. While at Yale Law, he co-founded and edited the political satire magazine, Monocle. Career Before joining The Nation, Navasky was an editor at The New York Times Magazine. He also wrote a monthly column about the publishing business ("In Cold Print") for the Times Book Review. Navasky was named the editor of The Nation in 1978. In that forum, for many years, he was immortalized in Calvin Trillin's Uncivil Liberties column as "the wily and parsimonious Victor S. Navasky," or "The W. & P." for short. Navasky was a supporter of alleged Soviet spy Alger Hiss, having published vociferous defences of the man's innocence in The Nation both during his lifetime and after. In 1994, while on a year's leave of absence from The Nation, he served first as a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School and then as a senior fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University. When he returned to The Nation, he led a group of investors in buying the magazine, and became its publisher. Navasky also served as a