ナット・ヘントフ Nat Hentoff
1925年生まれのアメリカ人。ジャズ批評のカリスマにして小説家。
著作に、『ジャズ・カントリー』など。
Nat Hentoff
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Nat Hentoff (born June 10, 1925) is an American civil libertarian, free
speech absolutist, pro-life advocate, anti-death penalty advocate, jazz
critic, historian, biographer and anecdotist, and columnist for the
Village Voice, Legal Times, Washington Times, The Progressive, Editor
& Publisher, Free Inquiry and Jewish World Review. He was named as
one of six 2004 NEA Jazz Masters, the first non-musician to win this
prestigious award.
In recent years, he has become a vocal critic of the organization he
once supported, the American Civil Liberties Union, for its support of
government-enforced campus and workplace speech codes [1] and
affirmative action, which he considers to be state-sponsored racial and
ethnic discrimination. In effect, he has criticized the ACLU from the
left, accusing it of not standing up strongly enough for free speech
and other civil liberties. He now serves on the board of advisors for
the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a civil liberties
group more radical than the ACLU. Hentoff's book, Free Speech for Me ―
But Not for Thee outlines his views on free speech and excoriates those
who favor any form of censorship.
He is strongly critical of Bush Administration policies such as the
Patriot Act and the civil liberties implications of the recent push for
"homeland security." He was also strongly critical of Clinton
Administration policies such as the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death
Penalty Act.
In February 2003, Hentoff signed a letter circulated by Social
Democrats, USA advocating the removal of Saddam Hussein from power in
Iraq on human rights grounds, citing reports detailing Hussein's
disregard for fundamental liberties.
Despite what are generally considered leftist views, he developed
pro-life views in the 1980s.[2] A former Jew and an atheist, Hentoff
declared that his views had nothing to do with faith, and that shortly
after he "came out" as a pro-life, several of his colleagues at The
Village Voice stopped speaking to him. In October 2005, Hentoff was
honored by the Human Life Foundation at the Third Annual Great Defender
of Life dinner.
Hentoff was educated at Boston Latin School, Northeastern University,
and Harvard.
Books
Does Anybody Give a Damn?: Nat Hentoff on Education Random House;
(1977)
Our Children Are Dying
A Doctor Among Addicts
Peace Agitator: The Story of A. J Muste ISBN 0-9608096-0-0
The New Equality
The First Freedom: The Tumultuous History of Free Speech in America
The Day They Came to Arrest the Book ISBN 0-440-91814-6
The Man from Internal Affairs
Boston Boy: Growing Up With Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions ISBN
0-9679675-2-X
John Cardinal O'Connor: At the Storm Center of a Changing American
Catholic Church
Free Speech for Me ― But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right
Relentlessly Censor Each Other ISBN 0-06-099510-6
Listen to the Stories: Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music
Living the Bill of Rights: How to Be an Authentic American ISBN
0-520-21981-3
The Nat Hentoff Reader ISBN 0-306-81084-0
The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance ISBN
1-58322-621-4
The Jazz Life ISBN 0-306-80088-8
Does This School Have Capital Punishment?
I'm Really Dragged But Nothing Gets Me Down
Jazz Country
This School is Driving Me Crazy
Quote
"I'm a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer."
External links
Archive
at JewishWorldReview.com
Columns
on abortion