Word: hentoff
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...Hentoff: Well, I was only there for a couple of hours really. The biggest changes I could see were at the Boston Latin School. It was wonderful to see musicians really doing some good work...
...Hentoff, prolific author on jazz and the First Amendment (39 published books) and Village Voice syndicated columnist is working on millions of things, like always. None of his current work is about Boston, but one of his favorite books, a memoir called Boston Boy about growing up in Roxbury, was recently re-released. Hentoff agreed to a gambol down faded 60-year-old Memory Lane to talk about his book and his Boston upbringing, though that’s not really what he ended up talking about...
...Hentoff: I just really don’t see why Harvard’s interested in this story. Now, maybe you can tell me, what are people doing around there about what John Ashcroft and George Bush are doing to the Constitution...
...Hentoff: The USA Patriot Act has a very chilling effect on freedom of speech. The FBI can come to a bookstore or library and find out what people who are labeled ‘suspicious’ are reading and buying. And there’s a gag order so the librarians and booksellers can’t say that they’ve provided this information. The press has really been asleep on that...
...will deny that the vast majority of pro-lifers are deeply religious. After all, the activity we were engaged in outside the clinic was prayer. But the religious don't have a monopoly on opposition to abortion. Courageous individuals like Nat Hentoff, a Jewish atheist, oppose abortion on philosophical grounds alone. If people of vastly different moral and religious beliefs can join together to fight abortion, I fail to see how it can constitute the imposition of any elaborate moral code...