Nat Hentoff

The Human Life Review held their 50th Anniversary Gala on November 13, 2024. Wesley J. Smith was invited to give tribute to Nat Hentoff and Rita Marker. Following are his remarks. Thank you all for being here at this important event and thank you, Maria and Anne, for inviting me to say a few words. You know, as I pondered what I would say tonight, I thought about what it is that people with excellence in advocacy — what are their attributes. I came up with five. One is integrity. Two, know your stuff. Three, be unremitting, never quit. Four, don’t be expedient. That’s a hard one sometimes — don’t be expedient. And five, have a willingness to sacrifice. And Read More ›

It is always good to see someone wrestling with truth. A progressive columnist in The Guardian writes about how she is coming to understand that human life has intrinsic dignity, but she doesn’t quite understand why. Still, something very important is stirring within her. From, “I Am a Rational Liberal, Yet a Question about the Sanctity of Life Floored Me,” by Sonia Sodha: Liberalism has much to offer, but there are risks in embracing it as an overarching political philosophy without a degree of humility about its shortcomings: its hollow silence over how to navigate knotty ethical issues where society needs some kind of shared understanding. This queasiness about morality means liberals sometimes look the other way when others smuggle Read More ›