Nat Hentoff joins commentary team

Nat Hentoff

Famed First Amendment authority Nat Hentoff joins WND's commentary line-up today with his column "Sweet Land of Liberty."

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A columnist and staff writer with The Village Voice since 1957, Hentoff uses the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment to show how Supreme Court and local legislative decisions affect ordinary Americans every day of their lives.

Hentoff, a jazz expert, also writes on music for the Wall Street Journal and Jazz Times. He has received multiple honors, including the National Press Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism in 1995 and as a Pulitzer finalist for commentary in 1999. Hentoff has also received the American Library Association's Imroth Award for Intellectual Freedom and an American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award.

A prolific author, Hentoff's books include "The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance" (2004), "Living the Bill of Rights" (1998), "Speaking Freely: A Memoir" (1997), and "Listen to the Stories: Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music" (1995).

Hentoff, a Boston native, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a Fulbright Fellow at the Sorbonne in Paris. He did graduate work at Harvard University, received his B.A. from Northeastern University and was awarded an honorary doctorate of law from Northeastern in 1985. He has taught courses in journalism and the Constitution at Princeton University and New York University.

Hentoff's column will appear each Wednesday in WorldNetDaily.

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Read Hentoff's debut column for WND, "Freedom for the thoughts we hate."