Email Author Nat Hentoff

2010 Stories by Nat Hentoff

• The Education Emperor Wins, Kids Lose

  published December 8, 2010

  From his first purchase of the mayoralty, Michael Bloomberg pledged that his legacy as mayor would be judged by his reform of the school... More >>

• Local Nightclubs Need to Stop Resisting Pension Payments for Jazz Musicians

  published November 10, 2010

  In 1953, when I came to New York from Boston to be the New York editor of Down Beat, then the bible of the jazz community, I learned... More >>

• Why I Oppose the Downtown Mosque

  published September 29, 2010

  In the old days, reporters, in the pages of the Voice, went after one another. Readers enjoyed taking sides in these civil wars, and we... More >>

• What Obama Could Learn From Paterson

  published August 25, 2010

  Having previously congratulated Governor David Paterson for signing into law the removal from NYPD computerized databases the names and... More >>

• Hey, Ray Kelly, Frisk This

  published July 27, 2010

  Before signing a bill into law on July 16 that was introduced by State Senator Eric Adams (formerly a police officer for 22 years) and... More >>

• Ray 'Stop-and-Frisk' Kelly for Mayor?

  published June 29, 2010

  A February Quinnipiac survey saluted Police Commissioner Ray Kelly with an approval rating of 70 percent, a higher rating than his enthusiastic... More >>

• Black Parents vs. the Teachers' Union

  published June 1, 2010

  In Harlem—as elsewhere in this city, state, and nation—there is a sharply rising struggle between teachers' unions and black... More >>

• Education Mayor Bloomberg Called Out

  published April 27, 2010

  Michael Bloomberg's ruthless definition of "mayoral control" of the schools became coldly clear on March 16, 2004, when he summarily fired... More >>

• Segregation 2010: Bloomberg's Schools

  published March 24, 2010

  Engaged last year in buying another vainglorious term, Michael Bloomberg told black voters at a Bronx church (Daily News, September 10)... More >>

• Bloomberg and Kelly's School Vigilantes Get Failing Grades in a New Lawsuit

  published February 16, 2010

  For the first time in its history, New York City is being sued in federal court on behalf of all its public-school students. ¶ In a... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  George W. Obama

  published January 12, 2010

  Before President Obama, it was grimly accurate to write, as I often did in the Voice, that George W. Bush came into the presidency with... More >>