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…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

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

— 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…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

— Hendrik Hertzberg

I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness"…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

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

— Hendrik Hertzberg

[If the Democratic nominee turns out to be] Walter Mondale, I hope he picks Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. It…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

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

— 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…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

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

— Hendrik Hertzberg

It's a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

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

— Hendrik Hertzberg