The First Amendment: An Endangered Species Under the Burger Court

Nathan Hentoff, staff writer for The New Yorker and columnist for The Village Voice, is a member of the steering committee of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Hentoff graduated with honors from Northeastern University, did post-graduate work at Harvard university, and served as a Fulbright Fellow in Paris. He serves on the faculty at the new School of social Research as Adjutant Associate Professor at New York University. The author of sixteen books and co-author of State Secrets: Police Surveillance in America. Hentoff is also a contributing editor to The Nation, Playboy, Inquiry and Cosmopolitan.
Part of the National Affairs Series: Freedom of Speech.