It’s a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention or capacity t…

- Hendrik Hertzberg

I`m pretty sure there is no such thing as God.

- Hendrik Hertzberg

I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international plutocr…

- Hendrik Hertzberg

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

- Hendrik Hertzberg

The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the…

- Hendrik Hertzberg

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

- Hendrik Hertzberg

Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.

- Hendrik Hertzberg

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

- Hendrik Hertzberg

Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?

- Hendrik Hertzberg