Hate Crimes Are Thought Crimes (Nat Hentoff)

Nat Hentoff is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. www.cato.org In this clip, Hentoff discusses the deplorable spread of hate-crime legislation, which he argues are crimes against thoughts. Video produced by Caleb O. Brown and Austin Bragg. Nat Hentoff is one of the foremost authorities on the First Amendment. While his books and articles regularly defend the rights of Americans to think and speak freely, he also explores our freedoms under the rest of the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment by showing how Supreme Court and local legislative decisions affect the lives of ordinary Americans. Hentoff's column, Sweet Land of Liberty, has been distributed by the United Feature Syndicate since 1992. Hentoff has earned numerous awards and is a widely acknowledged defender of civil liberties. In 1980, he was awarded an American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award for his coverage of the law and criminal justice in his columns. In 1983, the American Library Association awarded him the Imroth Award for Intellectual Freedom. In 1995, he received the National Press Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism, and in 1999, he was a Pulitzer finalist for commentary. Hentoff was a columnist and staff writer with The Village Voice for 51 years, from 1957 until 2008. A jazz expert, Hentoff writes on music for The Wall Street Journal and Jazz Times. Hentoff has lectured at many colleges, universities, law schools, elementary, middle and high schools, and has taught ...



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