Email Author Nat Hentoff

2003 Stories by Nat Hentoff

• 100th Civil Liberties Safe Zone!

  published June 3, 2003

  On May 6, the commissioners of Broward County, Florida, in a unanimous vote, passed the 100th local resolution in the United States proclaiming "a... More >>

• Where Is Nelson Mandela?

  published May 27, 2003

  It is 23 years now since independence. Tomorrow we commemorate the day when we achieved political emancipation from Britain. . . . Gone are the... More >>

• Terrorizing the Press

  published May 20, 2003

  Councilmember Charles Barron, according to Newsday, is considering a run for mayor. He has already targeted a key vulnerability for the... More >>

• Any Anti-Mugabe Protesters Here?

  published May 13, 2003

  The majority of people [in Zimbabwe] are a happy lot despite the hardships we're going through. —President Robert Mugabe, The New... More >>

• Mugabe's Victims: Mostly Black

  published May 6, 2003

  The Iraq war has totally overshadowed the horrors in Zimbabwe. Day after day, hour after hour, the BBC, CNN, and Sky television tell of the... More >>

• Conservatives Rise for the Bill of Rights!

  published April 29, 2003

  A significant development in the movement to resist the Ashcroft-Bush dismembering of the Bill of Rights is the growing coalition between... More >>

• Bush-Ashcroft vs. Homeland Security

  published April 22, 2003

  Every time the administration removes another strand of the liberties in the Bill of Rights, we are told it has to be done in the vital interest... More >>

• Vanishing Liberties

  published April 15, 2003

  If Americans win a war (not just against Saddam Hussein but the longer-term struggle) and lose the Constitution, they will have lost... More >>

• Who Decides Who's Black or Hispanic?

  published April 8, 2003

  An especially challenging question concerning affirmative action was not addressed at all by the Supreme Court in the University of Michigan case... More >>

• Why I Didn't March This Time

  published April 1, 2003

  Often, the executions have been carried out by the Fedayeen Saddam, a paramilitary group headed by Mr. Hussein's oldest son, 38-year-old Uday.... More >>

• How Much Diversity Is Enough?

  published March 25, 2003

  A decisive question before the Supreme Court in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases is whether assuring diversity—of race and... More >>

• Left Out of Affirmative Action

  published March 18, 2003

  A black applicant who pulled himself out of the ghetto and into a junior college may thereby demonstrate a level of motivation, perseverance,... More >>

• Red Alert for Bill of Rights!

  published March 11, 2003

  The Justice Department . . . seems to be running amok. . . . This agency right now is the biggest threat to personal liberty in the country. ... More >>

• Ashcroft Out of Control

  published March 4, 2003

  Many of the new security measures proposed by our government in the name of fighting the "war on terror" are not temporary. They are permanent... More >>

• A U.S. License to Kill

  published February 25, 2003

  While I was chronicling, last week, the CIA's hit squads—and Donald... More >>

• Our Designated Killers

  published February 18, 2003

  The People are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. —Thomas Jefferson More >>

• The Facts: Schumer v. Pickering

  published February 11, 2003

  When Charles Pickering's Presidential Nomination to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals was rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee on a... More >>

• The American Way of Torture

  published February 4, 2003

  American intelligence agents have been torturing terrorist suspects, or engaging in practices pretty close to torture. They have also been... More >>

• Liberty's Court of Last Resort

  published January 28, 2003

  Mr. Hamdi could, in fact, be entirely innocent, and yet the court says there is no judicial recourse. —Georgetown University law... More >>

• An Enemy of Nixon and Baraka

  published January 21, 2003

  After orchestrating the seminal 1963 March on Washington, Bayard Rustin continued organizing coalitions for jobs and freedom (the signature of the... More >>

• An Indispensable Gay Man

  published January 14, 2003

  [Bayard Rustin] was his own man. Wherever he was, he stood at a rakish angle to it. —Midge Decter More >>

• George W. Bush's Constitution

  published January 7, 2003

  It is hard to imagine that America would look kindly on a foreign government that demanded the right to hold some of its own citizens in... More >>