Monocle (satirical magazine)

Monocle was an American satirical magazine, published irregularly from the late 1950s until the mid-1960s. Co-founder Victor Navasky served as its first editor.^[1] From 1961 to 1965, it was edited by C. D. B. Bryan. Calvin Trillin, Dan Wakefield, Neil Postman, Richard Lingeman,^[2] Dan Greenburg, and humorist Marvin Kitman also contributed.^[3][4]

Monocle was founded by a group of Yale Law School students, including Navasky, as a "leisurely quarterly" (issued, in fact, twice a year).^[1] After graduation, they moved to New York City, where the magazine, in its editors' words, initially "operated more or less like the UN police force — we came out whenever there was an emergency". Later, it became a "leisurely monthly", with the intent of appearing about ten times a year.^{[5][better source needed]}

Navasky recounts in detail the history of his founding and direction of Monocle in his 2005 memoir, A Matter of Opinion.^{[6][page needed]}