I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.
Nat HentoffThe Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.
Nat HentoffI don't think [Bill Clinton] does anything - I don't think it's ill will. I don't think he's evil in the sense that he hates the Bill of Rights. He does what he figures will help him politically.
Nat HentoffThe present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.
Nat HentoffI was less angry at [Carl] Armstrong, though I was angry at the people who came to his trial: Dan Ellsberg, who ordinarily I respected a lot; Philip Berrigan; the guy who teaches at Princeton still - I can't remember his name. And they were saying - well, they were saying, really, what Arthur Koestler had people saying on "Darkness at Noon." The means were unfortunate and, sadly, someone died, but the end is what is important and this was a great symbolic - something or other - sign against the war in Vietnam.
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