Talk:Nat Hentoff/Archive 1

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Archive 1

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Two things might be worth mention. He writes quite often for the Wall Street Journal. And he played himself in Woody Allen's The Sweet Lowdown.


I would add one other salient liberal contrarian view: his opposition to race-based affirmative action. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.177.25.139 (talk) 02:46, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Total Inadequacy...

....would best describe this attempt at an article. Hentoff's notability is primarily as a jazz critic and critic of other non-classical genres - yet the article barely mentions this, instead concentrating on his politics, an area in which he has had little note and less influence. Revisions to come. Sensei48 (talk) 18:13, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

I also wouldn't even really list him as being left-leaning in his politics anymore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.128.106 (talk) 00:17, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

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The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Nat Hentoff/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

the ACLU "supports government-enforced speech codes"? I'd say the neutrality of this article is debatable. This may be totally off subject but has anyone read Nat Hentoff's book The Day They Came to Arrest The Book? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.247.66.32 (talk) 00:21, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

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