Email Author Nat Hentoff

2008 Stories by Nat Hentoff

• Federal Court Defendants Joel Klein & Ray Kelly

  published December 31, 2008

  While Joel Klein was among those being seriously considered by Barack Obama for Secretary of Education—Chicago Superintendent Arne Duncan... More >>

• Obama's Black Widow

  published December 24, 2008

  Barack Obama will be in charge of the biggest domestic and international spying operation in history. Its prime engine is the National Security... More >>

• What Obama Doesn't Know

  published December 17, 2008

  No presidential transition team in recent history has ranged as widely as Barack Obama's in its attempt to find out what minefields he may be... More >>

• What Does Letting Our Own War Criminals Go Free Tell Us About Ourselves?

  published December 10, 2008

  Since I live in the Village, my Congressman is Jerrold Nadler, a civil libertarian for all seasons. Unlike many of his Democratic colleagues,... More >>

• Obama's First 100 Days

  published December 3, 2008

  Pressure is building on the new president from his more urgent supporters to begin validating their audacious hopes within his first 100 days.... More >>

• Surveillance: NYPD Retreats, FBI Takes Over

  published November 26, 2008

  During the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York, Ray Kelly's NYPD suspended the First Amendment by videotaping many of the protests... More >>

• The New Commander in Chief Can Take on the CIA

  published November 19, 2008

  November 4 was indeed a transformative breakthrough for many black Americans, including the very young, for whom citizenship may now have a... More >>

• Caged Citizen Will Test President Obama

  published November 12, 2008

  If our new president intends to try to make America resemble what it was meant to be, he will have to deal with the noxious residue of the... More >>

• A Brooklyn College Grad Experiences the Constitution in a Cage

  published November 5, 2008

  For the past year, a 28-year-old Muslim American student, Sayed Fahad Hashmi—the first person extradited to the United States from... More >>

• Bloomberg's Cops Illegally Cuffing Kids Under 16?

  published October 29, 2008

  On October 7, Jaritza Geigel, A 17-year-old senior at the Bushwick School for Social Justice in Brooklyn, told a Daily News reporter about the... More >>

• Joining the War Over the Constitution

  published October 22, 2008

  Two months after the 9/11 attacks, 25 teachers, retirees, lawyers, doctors, students, and nurses—none of them professional civil... More >>

• The Next American Revolution: When It Becomes Necessary To Bring King George to Justice

  published October 8, 2008

  A revolutionary, Thomas Jefferson, provided the reason for continuing the project started at the Robert H. Jackson Conference on Planning for... More >>

• Considering the War-Crimes Trial of the Bush Administration

  published October 1, 2008

  Over the weekend of September 13 and 14, a historic gathering in Andover, Massachusetts, took place and garnered little media attention. But at... More >>

• When Is Obama Going to Start Talking About Bush's 'Dark Side'?

  published September 23, 2008

  On C-Span, Dana Priest—the first reporter to break the story of CIA torture as an American Policy in "the war on terror" (Washington... More >>

• Bloomberg Writes His Own Report Card

  published September 17, 2008

  Our mayor, basking in his 70 percent approval rate, declared on September 3 that the state legislature will surely extend mayoral control of... More >>

• Back to School With Ray Kelly's Bullies on Patrol

  published September 10, 2008

  With all the news about Stalin's rebirth in Georgia and how many homes John McCain has, little attention was paid to an August rally at City... More >>

• NYC's Black Male Graduation Rates: The Lost Two-Thirds

  published August 12, 2008

  In this city, only 32 percent of black males graduated from high school on schedule in 2006, in contrast to 57 percent of white males. Because... More >>

• Losing Track of Dropouts—and Successes—in New York City Schools

  published August 5, 2008

  Last week, I sketched the promised land of Randi Weingarten's "community schools" project, the most thoroughgoing regeneration of any city's... More >>

• Randi Weingarten and the National American Federation of Teachers: No Child Left Unhealed

  published July 29, 2008

  The first book I wrote on this city's public schools was Our Children Are Dying (Viking Press, 1966). It was about a Harlem elementary... More >>

• What's Wrong with WNYC?

  published July 23, 2008

  Cutting through the vast confusion of information available to us—much of it unsourced and unverified—local radio station WNYC used... More >>

• Ray-Gun Kelly

  published July 16, 2008

  Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, the Democratic Congressman who represents portions of Brooklyn and Queens, told The New York Sun... More >>

• A CIA Lawyer's Smoking Gun

  published July 9, 2008

  In October 2002, 10 Defense Department lawyers and officials met at Guantánamo to figure out which interrogation techniques would... More >>

• Judging the Torture Presidency of George W. Bush

  published July 2, 2008

  In Standard Operating Procedure, a definitive account of what happened at Abu Ghraib published by Penguin Press, author Philip... More >>

• The 'W.' Stands for 'War Criminal'

  published June 24, 2008

  In a June 6 letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey—largely ignored by a press immersed in the future of Hillary Clinton—56... More >>

• Consider the Constitutions of Obama and McCain as You Choose Sides

  published June 17, 2008

  On the blessed day when George W. Bush leaves office, he will have left behind a largely hidden parallel government within this nation, a rogue... More >>