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PostSubject: The unorthodox libertarianism of Nat Hentoff   The unorthodox libertarianism of Nat Hentoff Icon_minitimeSun Aug 09, 2009 3:48 am
“Out of Step,” the working title of a new documentary about Nat Hentoff’s life, strikes the 84-year-old journalist as a good characterization of his idiosyncratic political views. Of course, Hentoff is not the only writer to consider himself alienated. Many contemporary intellectuals have felt lost, no matter how recognized they are. Edward Said’s autobiography was called Out of Place. Richard Pipes’s was subtitled Memoir of a Non-Belonger. Jonathan Safran Foer’s essay collection: How to Be Alone.

For most thinkers, however, isolation is a matter of perception. They feel out of step but have legions of disciples. Not Nat Hentoff. He is part of no movement, an adherent to no ideology. He may be the only Jewish atheist pro-life libertarian hawk in America. And in a partisan, power-infatuated media age, the brand of independent journalism he’s been practicing since the1940s is disappearing.

Hentoff’s contrarian sensibility descends from the Depression-era Boston in which he grew up. In his first autobiography, Boston Boy, he tells of eating a salami sandwich just to spite his Orthodox neighbors. On another occasion, the precocious Hentoff organized a union among the boys at the local candy store. These rabble-rousing instincts are still detectable in his writing, which is marked, above all, by a defense of the individual’s refusal to be silenced. Nat Hentoff just will not shut up.

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