Email Author Nat Hentoff

2012 Stories by Nat Hentoff

• The Voice Lives!

  published September 5, 2012

  There has been a recent media rush proclaiming that the Voice is dying as evidenced by a diminishing staff. In some of these death... More >>

• The Next Mayor: An NYPD Still Outside the Law?

  published August 8, 2012

  On June 13, 24 City Councilmembers—11 votes short of a veto-proof majority—voted for a bill that would create an inspector general... More >>

• NYU Censors Its Arabian Campus

  published July 4, 2012

  I’m a longtime Greenwich Village resident, having been first attracted by its legacy of free expression. Where else could I hang out at... More >>

• Educator of the Year—and Beyond

  published June 6, 2012

  During the 12 years Randi Weingarten was president of the United Federation of Teachers, I often battled with her in these pages. But when she... More >>

• Will Mayor Ray Kelly Watch Over Us?

  published May 2, 2012

  Our all-seeing police commissioner denies that he desires to succeed his biggest fan, Michael Bloomberg. But an April 23 New York Post... More >>

• Governor Cuomo Joins the Lawless Kelly-Bloomberg Gang

  published April 4, 2012

  As a New Yorker since 1953, I’ve never witnessed—even under the imperious Mayor Rudolph Giuliani—such wide-ranging attacks on... More >>

• The Constitution Versus Ray Kelly

  published February 29, 2012

  Our police commissioner and his chief cheerleader, the mayor, have forgotten or never learned that the Constitution would not have... More >>

• Evaluate Teachers? Let Students Also Do It

  published February 1, 2012

  In more than 60 years reporting on public school districts here and in other cities, I’ve often found students to be useful evaluators of... More >>

• Bloomberg and Walcott Are School Dropouts

  published January 11, 2012

  Across the nation, more teachers and school systems are discarding standardized collective testing in reading and math—along with the... More >>