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Always enjoy reading a good piece by Hentoff.
He frequently published in Playboy Magazine during the same time period (1962) he wrote this piece about Black Americans.
In those years he was a vocal, mainstream Leftist on most issues, but I don't recall that he was ever anti-Israel, or that he ever attacked free enterprise or great wealth.
Hentoff started to publicly move to the Right on several issues around 1980. Very late in life, he actually went to work for the Cato Institute, and he even wrote a weekly column for World Net Daily at one point in time.
He wrote in the Voice in my day in the Apple
A realistic Woody Guthrie contemporary
Very idiosyncratic
He was prescient about where race was headed even though in his day he loved to bait a bit about bigotry
Sort of an old school urban Jew ...huge Jazz guy....his worldview pretty much emanates from the Village up the I 95 corridor to Beacon Hill
Liberal about social views except abortion a few others
Acts conservative about Israel
Hated Bush and Satan Vice President
An Atlantic writer frequently
Amazing he’s been prolific so long
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