The 2010 Jazz Bridge Calendar is on Sale! Order your calendar now before December 15th and its only $20! Jazz historian Nat Hentoff calls the Jazz Bridge calendar a treasure and collectors item.

My favorite magazine by far was "Constitution," published by the Foundation for the U.S. Constitution.

My favorite magazine by far was Constitution, published by the Foundation for the U.S. Constitution.

Mr. Hentoff received the ADL Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize , which recognizes those who have made significant and lasting contributions to the protection and advancement of the First Amendment.

Sept. 23, 2009 / 5 Tishrei 5770 In community schools no child is left behind By Nat Hentoff Education has been my most important beat for more than 50 years.

"Nat Hentoff, senior fellow at the CATO Institute, discusses the greatly lessened restrictions on domestic FBI surveillance programs, the FBIa s 'investigative assessments' that supplant judicial warrants and oversight, the failure of the educational system to teach the Constitution and limitations on government power and how colonial era rebellion ...

"Ah, the beauty of free speech!" As he took the podium last night at the 10th-anniversary dinner for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education , the organization's president, Greg Lukianoff, adopted a tone more rueful than celebratory.

In the last weeks of the Bush-Cheney administration, FBI Director Robert Mueller and then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey rushed into law such unbounded expansions of the FBI's domestic surveillance powers that I was stunned.

Over the past decade, no group has done more to combat the muzzling of expression on college campuses than The Foundation For Individual Rights in Education , which was started by Reason contributors Alan Kors and Harvey Silverglate.

There has been a sudden disclosure that, in the influential Senate Finance Committee's health care bill, there is a dangerous provision that could deny crucial health treatments for Medicare patients.

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives March 18, 1965, Vol. X, No.

The reverberating town-hall meetings are a legacy of the 1765 meeting in Boston where Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty organized against King George III and, not having access to the Internet, later started the Committees of Correspondence that alerted all the colonists to insistent royal threats to their personal liberties.

A well-known newspaper had this to say about writer Nat Hentoff upon his departure from the Villiage Voice at the end of 2008 after a 50-year run: Across his 83 years, his three dozen books and his countless newspaper columns and magazine articles, Mr.

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Nat Hentoff is a nationally renowned authority on the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights and author of several books, including his current work The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance.

From last year: H/T Brian Faughnan has more on the Oregon case; Nat Hentoff has more on the current debate.

Throughout the Bush-Cheney creation of a society under surveillance and unprecedented government secrecy, I have often praised Sen.

Whose values are we fighting for in Afghanistan? July 28, 2009 On June 26, recognizing the "International Day in Support of Victims of Torture" , President Barack Obama stated: "Torture is contrary to the founding documents of our country, and the fundamental values of our people.

On Dec. 26, 2002, Dana Priest and Barton Gellman wrote in The Washington Post the first undeniable story of America torturing suspected terrorists.

Nat Hentoff was right on in his recent column regarding common ground on abortion.