IRA STOLL

Boston, Massachusetts

Ira Stoll is a Columnist for the Sun.

Mr. Stoll was a founding partner in the New York Sun and its former managing editor. He is author of ‘JFK, Conservative’ and editor of FutureOfCapitalism.com.

Latest Articles

New York Sun archives — Anti-Israel student activists demonstrate at a Harvard convocation for entering first-year students in Tercentenary Theater at Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 30, 2022.

UN Official, Banned From Israel and Welcomed at Harvard Event, Denounces Jewish State for ‘Genocide,’ ‘Apartheid’

American government calls Francesca Albanese’s comments ‘unacceptable and antisemitic,’ yet a Harvard professor thanks her for ‘incredibly important work.’

By IRA STOLL

|Feb 13, 2024|

Opinion (Columnists)

AP/Evan Vucci — President Biden meets with the Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, at the Oval Office May 31, 2022.

All Eyes Are on Jerome Powell as We Hurtle Toward November and the Fed’s Political Window Is Closing Fast

President Trump says it looks like Powell is ‘trying to lower interest rates for the sake of maybe getting people elected.’

By IRA STOLL

|Feb 8, 2024|

Opinion (Other)

AP/Steven Senne — Claudine Gay on May 25, 2023, at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Harvard’s New President Risks Repeating Claudine Gay’s Mistakes

Administrators are ‘focusing on protecting themselves as opposed to taking accountability,’ a law student alleges.

By IRA STOLL

|Jan 29, 2024|

Opinion (Columnists)

AP/Alex Brandon — White House senior adviser Jared Kushner on October 26, 2020, at Washington.

Make Harvard Great Again — Jared Kushner for President

Who else can top him at making peace and raising money, two skills desperately needed at America’s oldest university?

By IRA STOLL

|Jan 5, 2024|

Opinion (Columnists)

To Reset Harvard and Higher Education, Put the Purpose First

Teaching, learning, and research are the reasons the institutions exist.

By IRA STOLL

|Jan 2, 2024|

Opinion (Columnists)

Frank Cone via Pexels.com — 'Let the Eagle Soar': America's prospects look bright for 2024.

Step Right Up, Folks: When the Chips Are Down for 2024, Here’s the Logic for a Bet on America

It’s not as if Putin, Xi, and the Ayatollahs are without problems of their own.

By IRA STOLL

|Dec 28, 2023|

Opinion (Columnists)

William B. Plowman/Getty Images — Widener Library on the Harvard campus at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Plagiarism Scandal at Harvard Emerges as a Symptom of a Bigger Problem — the Lack of Original Thinking

Claudine Gay’s absence of footnotes echoes a university bereft of new and creative thinking.

By IRA STOLL

|Dec 19, 2023|

Opinion (Columnists)

Who Could Fix Harvard? Change of Leadership Would Have To Go Beyond President Gay

Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine, Senator Romney, Governor Baker, Senator Sasse, or Kerry Healey could help.

By IRA STOLL

|Dec 11, 2023|

Opinion (Columnists)

AP/Andres Kudacki — A man waves a Palestinian flag as protesters cross the Brooklyn Bridge on October 28, 2023.

The War Against the Jews Is a War Against Capitalism

Campus radicals, Congressional socialists, and Iran make their aims clear. They go well beyond Israel.

By IRA STOLL

|Dec 4, 2023|

Opinion (Columnists)

AP/Adel Hana — Hamas supporters wave green Islamic flags during a rally in Gaza on April 30, 2021.

Biden, Israel Are Headed for Clash Over Palestinian-Arab Statehood

‘The Palestinian people deserve a state of their own,’ the president says — after Hamas kills 1,200 Israelis.

By IRA STOLL

|Nov 27, 2023|

Opinion (Columnists)

AP/Christian Chavez — Migrants approach the border wall at Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on the other side of the border from El Paso, Texas, December 21, 2022.

Middle Eastern Migrants Flooding Across Border and Into America From Mexico, a Story That the Times Dismisses but NPR and VOA Confirm

Voters could be tired of having their concerns about the border dismissed as racist or xenophobic.

By IRA STOLL

|Nov 21, 2023|

Opinion (Columnists)

AP/Yuki Iwamura — Palestinian supporters gather for a protest at Columbia University at New York.

Columbia’s New Task Force on Antisemitism Might Want To Take a Look at the University’s Policy of Providing Its Students and Faculty Free Access to the New York Times

The paper certainly looks like a source of the anti-Jewish ideas that the task force is designed to root out from Morningside Heights.

By IRA STOLL

|Nov 7, 2023|

Opinion (Columnists)