I have always liked Hentoff - - he seems like an honest liberal, and that's a very rare thing. Plus, he isn't mean or smirking in his political commentary.
While the words “honest liberal” seem to have become a contradiction in terms, I found a lot of Hentoff’s columns to be interesting reading whether or not I agreed with him. He just seemed to be all over the map, sort of like watching an ant wandering around aimlessly.