Email Author Nat Hentoff

1998 Stories by Nat Hentoff

• New York as a Jim Crow Disgrace

  published May 19, 1998

  The minority report of the Mayor's Task Force on Police/Community Relations has a section called ''Myths About Police Misconduct.'' It... More >>

• Investigating New York's Finest

  published May 12, 1998

  I very much regretted Stanley Crouch leaving the Voice years ago, and I tried hard to keep him here. Both in print and in his bristling... More >>

• Police Brutality and the Mayor

  published May 5, 1998

  Making police accountable is essential. At three o'clock in the morning, a cop is more powerful than the mayor, the governor, and the... More >>

• Where Were the Law Guardians?

  published April 28, 1998

  Edward Eggleston, a leading historian of the Salem witch trials, claims that there were no more such ordeals in America after the 17th century.... More >>

• A Town Possessed by Satan

  published April 21, 1998

  The attorney general, Janet Reno, says she may order a thorough investigation of the child sex abuse epidemic in the city of Wenatchee in... More >>

• How To Commit a Loving Murder

  published February 17, 1998

  In 1993, 12-year-old Tracy Latimer was murdered by her father on their farm in Saskatchewan, western Canada. Tracy had a severe case of cerebral... More >>