Email Author Nat Hentoff

2000 Stories by Nat Hentoff

• The Advancing Abolitionists

  published June 6, 2000

  We must be getting a lot more information now that there's a 24-hour news cycle and as communications behemoths merge their multimedia resources... More >>

• Big Brother at 'The Village Voice'

  published May 23, 2000

  Power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, "Give, give!" —Abigail Adams, 18th-century... More >>

• The Cardinal, Gays, and Lesbians

  published May 16, 2000

  In his May 29, 1986, column for the weekly newspaper Catholic New York, the cardinal wrote of having visited two dying AIDS patients at St.... More >>

• My Friend the Cardinal

  published May 9, 2000

  There's no point in simply talking to people about filling their souls if you don't fill their bellies. —John Cardinal O'Connor,... More >>

• Elián’s Future in Cuba

  published May 2, 2000

  Congressman Jerrold Nadler, a loyal Democrat supporting the Reno capturing of Elián, told the April 24 New York Post that attorney... More >>

• The Clinton-Reno Rule of Law

  published April 25, 2000

  The government raid was swift, deft, and solicitous as regards the boy. —lead editorial, The Washington Post,... More >>

• Slaughter of the Innocents

  published April 18, 2000

  The human rights situation in Sudan is not marketable to the American people.—Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in a... More >>

• Are We in a Police State?

  published April 11, 2000

  In a column in the March 23 Daily News, David Paterson, New York state senator from Harlem, said: 'No one has explained so far why officer... More >>

• Who Will Indict the Lawbreaking Mayor?

  published April 4, 2000

  Patrick Dorismond just said no to an undercover drug cop, then wound up dead and smeared. —Jim Dwyer, New York Daily News,... More >>

• A Sudanese Woman Tells Her Story

  published March 28, 2000

  I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them. —former... More >>

• Hillary: Help Free the Slaves

  published March 21, 2000

  Quiet as it's been kept in much of the press—and all of the television news, so far as I know—a new divestment campaign is gathering... More >>

• Hillary and the Death Penalty

  published March 14, 2000

  Hillary, Eleanor Roosevelt would love you. —Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, February 6, Purchase, New York Hillary Rodham... More >>

• Giuliani Justice

  published March 7, 2000

  We do not yet have equal justice for the poor, for the members of minority groups, for the criminally accused. Ugly inequities continue to mar... More >>

• Doctor Death

  published February 29, 2000

  The 20th century was the most lethal in recorded history. Genocide has become pandemic. But in this new millennium there will be threats to the... More >>

• Doctor Death

  published February 22, 2000

  The 20th century was the most lethal in recorded history. Genocide has become pandemic. But in this new millennium there will be threats to the... More >>

• Racism and Free Speech

  published February 15, 2000

  If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is... More >>

• It's Not Only John Rocker

  published February 1, 2000

  We began well in America. No Inquisition here. No kings, no nobles. No dominant church here. Heresy has lost its... More >>

• The Scorned Law Professor

  published January 25, 2000

  Rod Smolla, a professor at the University of Richmond's T.C. Williams School of Law, was a widely respected First Amendment scholar and litigator... More >>

• Can a Book Murder?

  published January 18, 2000

  In her More >>

• WABC Talk Show Hosts Shamed

  published January 4, 2000

  Tom Monaghan, a defense lawyer, is passionate not only about his clients but also about free speech and due process (fairness). Those are the... More >>