Your evaluation of Hentoff as a “big Lib” is way out of date.
He is and has always been a “civil libertarian”, but from the beginning, and that was over 20 years ago, saw through Bill Clinton, called him the emptiest man ever to run for President, and worked against him. He has been pro-Life for a long long time, and is one who doesn’t just hold the view privately, but writes eloquently and agitates endlessly for it. He is also the man who suggested that John McCain should take Sarah Palin as his running mate. I have no idea what kind of fault you might find with his “purported” protection of the Constitution, since he’s also done the same thing for
Free Speech, which is more under assualt than it’s ever been. I suppose what might have stuck in your craw recently was his opposition to the Patriot Act. Right?
I am proud to say I know Nat Hentoff. He is an amazing man with a strong sense of right and wrong. I only wish we had more of these kind of writers and thinkers.
Wrong. I’ not a fan of much of the patriot act, especially as interpreted by fascists. As i recall, Hentoff buys into the modern view of the Constitution that it protects porn, homesexuals, and has all kinds of protections for criminals that were never there. Am i wrong?