Wendy Kaminer, JD Biography
- Title:
- Former Board Member of the American Civil Liberties Union
- Position:
- Now Con to the question "Is the ACLU Good for America?"
- Reasoning:
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“This book focuses on what I regard as a dramatic ethical decline at the ACLU, involving the institutionalization of deceit and abandonment of core civil-liberties principles by staff and lay leadership-enabled by the use of social pressure to silence dissent.”
Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU, 2010
Prior to her 2010 statement above, Wendy Kaminer was classified as “pro”:
“You get values from your family. You don’t need religion to believe in a golden rule. I get my values from the ACLU and I wouldn’t call that a religion.”
Mar. 2000
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Writer
- Senior Correspondent, The American Prospect
- Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
- Professor, Tufts University, 1988-1990
- Staff attorney, New York Legal Aid Society, 1977-1978
- Former staff attorney, New York City Mayor’s Office
- Former Board Member, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- Former Guggenheim Fellow
- Awarded Smith College Medal, 1998
- Education:
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- JD, Boston University Law School, 1975
- BA, Smith College, 1971
- Other:
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- Writer, the New York Times
- Writer, the Atlantic Monthly
- Writer, the Wall Street Journal
- Writer, Free Inquiry
- Writer, Dissent
- Writer, The Nation
- Writer, Newsweek