Liberty Pen: The Open Mind With Richard Heffner- Nat Hentoff: 'Journalistic Integrity & The Minority View'

Source:Liberty Pen- Nat Hentoff appearing on The Open Mind With Richard Heffner, in 1989.

"Syndicated columnist Nat Hentoff opines on the necessity of modifying one's precepts in the face of evidence and reflects on a troubling trend beginning to take root at college campuses. (1989) Liberty Pen." 

From Liberty Pen 

I agree with I believe 99% of what Nat Hentoff said in this interview. 

The only exceptions would be that Robert Bork would've been a more acceptable Supreme Court nominee over Anthony Kennedy. As a Liberal (or Classical Liberal, if you prefer) I much prefer someone like a Tony Kennedy, over a Bob Bork, because Bork comes from more of the unitary executive perspective. It might have been Bork who told President Richard Nixon in 1973 or 74: "That when the President does it, it's not illegal." 

And the other exception being that its Liberals who are cracking down on free speech on college campuses. I mean anyone who actually understands what liberalism really is, knows that the number one liberal value is free speech. It's closeted Socialists and Communists who don't believe in free speech, not Liberals. 

But most if not the rest of what Nat Hentoff said in this clip , I totally agree. It's not that difficult to be popular. Just do everything and say everything that all the supposed cool people are doing and saying, wearing, eating, drinking, etc. But it takes courage to be honest, to be right, to express one's own views, to be an individual. And in a liberal democracy like America, we're supposed to be individuals, not sheep.