Fact (US magazine)

Fact was an American quarterly magazine that commented on controversial topics. It was in circulation between January 1964 and August 1967.^[1]

The publisher of Fact was Trident Press based in New York City.^[2] The magazine was edited by Ralph Ginzburg and Warren Boroson^[3] and designed by Herb Lubalin.^[4]

Fact was notable for having been sued by Barry Goldwater over a 1964 issue entitled "The Unconscious of a Conservative: A special Issue on the Mind of Barry Goldwater". In Goldwater v. Ginzburg, a federal jury awarded Goldwater $1 in compensatory damages and $75,000 in punitive damages, to punish Ginzburg and the magazine for being reckless. The American Psychiatric Association then issued the Goldwater rule reaffirming medical privacy and forbidding commenting on a patient whom the individual psychiatrist has not personally examined.^[5]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the award and the Supreme Courts denied a petition for certiorari (review); Justice Black and Justice Douglas joined a dissenting opinion, rather unusual at the time (1970) on orders denying "cert."^[6]

• Ginzburg, Ralph; Boroson, Warren (1967). The Best of Fact: Thirty-Two Articles that have made History from America's Most Courageous Magazine. Trident Press. OCLC 1368372.
• Goldwater v. Ginzburg, 414 F.2d 324, 337 (2d Cir.1969), cert. denied, 396 US 1049, 90 S.Ct. 701, 24 L.Ed.2d 695.
• "Flat File N°1 – Fact Magazine". Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. 16 February 2016.