Forty years ago, Hentoff was an editor of the bomb-throwing lefty magazine Ramparts, a stable-mate of David Horowitz.
Both of them migrated to the right over the years and could be called "neo-cons" now. Some of the original social liberalism shows through now and again, but they're about done being hustled by the old hard-line Reds and their KGB Active Measures talking-points memos.
THanks for the update on Hentoff’s leanings. Has PBS fired him yet (since I don’t listen anymore).