Email Author Nat Hentoff

2003 Stories by Nat Hentoff

• A U.S. Librarian Defends Castro

  published December 30, 2003

  Ann Sparanese, a member of the governing Council of the American Library Association, has written a letter to the Voice criticizing my... More >>

• Criminalizing Librarians

  published December 23, 2003

  Confronted with Section 215 of John Ashcroft's USA Patriot Act, Marie Bryan—library services director of the Woodland, California, public... More >>

• In Castro's Gulag—Librarians

  published December 16, 2003

  In the July 2003 issue of The Progressive, a monthly magazine for which I write, there was an ad: "Anti-War, Social Justice and Human... More >>

• J. Edgar Hoover Back at the 'New' FBI

  published December 9, 2003

  If you go around telling people, "We're going to ferret out information on demonstrations," that deters people. People don't want their names... More >>

• The Culture of Death

  published December 2, 2003

  Ironically, the "right to die" movement was founded on the premise that patients and/or families are the best judges of when it is time to die.... More >>

• It's Not Only About Terri Schiavo

  published November 25, 2003

  People already have the right to refuse unwanted treatment, and suicide is not illegal. What we oppose is a public policy that singles out... More >>

• Was Terri Schiavo Beaten in 1990?

  published November 18, 2003

  There is a new dimension in the fierce battle over whether Terri Schiavo's life is worth saving. A federally funded investigation has begun into... More >>

• A Woman's Life Versus an Inept Press

  published November 11, 2003

  We don't have full understanding of brain damage and consciousness . . . every patient is different . . . every patient's pattern of brain... More >>

• A Judge's Life: The Final Reckoning

  published November 4, 2003

  William Moody, an African-American drug defendant, was arrested in 2000, seven years after his indictment. Authorities could not find him... More >>

• A Judge Who Did Justice

  published October 28, 2003

  When George W. Bush renominated Mississippi Federal District Judge Charles Pickering to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Democratic attack... More >>

• The Ordeal of Charles Pickering

  published October 21, 2003

  Renominating Judge Pickering—especially in the wake of the Trent Lott affair—is a thumb in the eye of the black community.... More >>

• Bush's Vanished Prisoner

  published October 14, 2003

  The Constitution creates no executive prerogative to dispose of the liberty of the individual. Proceedings against him must be authorized by... More >>

• Another Great Night in Harlem

  published September 30, 2003

  Merle Haggard is hardly played anymore on commercial country music stations because his writing and singing come too deeply out of the roots of... More >>

• Bush Accused by Lords of the Bar

  published September 23, 2003

  No citizen shall be . . . detained by the United States except pursuant to an Act of Congress. —18 U.S.C. 4001 (a) a law passed by... More >>

• Testing to Create Dropouts?

  published September 16, 2003

  Anthony Alvarado was a New York City schools chancellor who knew a lot about how to motivate a student to learn how to learn so that it becomes a... More >>

• For the Children—Klein Should Resign

  published September 9, 2003

  In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born... More >>

• Fierce Watchdog of the Constitution

  published August 5, 2003

  On which broadcast or cable television channel was this said by a regular commentator? "The attorney general needs to follow the Constitution,... More >>

• Who Made George W. Bush Our King?

  published July 29, 2003

  Courts have no higher duty than protection of the individual freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution. This is especially true in time of war,... More >>

• Sandra Day O'Connor's Elitist Decision

  published July 22, 2003

  Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, formerly held the same position at the University of Michigan, which was recently victorious in a... More >>

• What the Supreme Court Left Out

  published July 15, 2003

  In the 1978 Bakke case—the first Supreme Court decision on affirmative action in college admissions—the Court was severely... More >>

• The Once and Former Rule of Law

  published July 8, 2003

  Despite the Justice Department inspector general's precisely detailed account of deliberate, pervasive violations of the rights and liberties of... More >>

• Ashcroft in Conference

  published July 1, 2003

  In the hours and days immediately following [the September 11] attacks, Attorney General John Ashcroft . . . directed that FBI and INS agents... More >>

• Justice Denied at the Source

  published June 24, 2003

  The clear lesson is that the government, in its understandable and laudable resolve to protect our security, cannot be relied on to protect our... More >>

• U.S. Black Leaders Confront Mugabe

  published June 17, 2003

  Police in Harare [forced] about 50 people, some of them women, to lie on the street while they beat them with batons and whips. . . . Police... More >>

• Ashcroft Defied on City Hall Steps

  published June 10, 2003

  As New Yorkers living in the city most affected by September 11, we acknowledge the need to protect our safety, but as people who prize our... More >>