Books
The Parlor Terrorists
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Parlor Terrorists." Commentary, January, 1947.Excerpt: If some of my best friends are right, and the big thing right now is to show that the Jew is as common a common man as the next, Arthur Koestler’s Thieves in the Night is the… More
The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile." Commentary, June, 1950.Excerpt: Four years ago, this department reported on an approach to the study of prejudice which, it was predicted, held great promise for the future: Else Frenkel-Brunswik and R. Nevitt… More
Dissent: A Quarterly of Socialist Opinion Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Dissent: A Quarterly of Socialist Opinion' Reviewed." Review of Dissent, Commentary, February, 1954.Excerpt: When, about a year ago, one heard that a group of writers dissatisfied with the prevailing trends in American politics—Irving Howe, Lewis Coser, Travers Clement, Meyer Schapiro,… More
Blacks, Jews & the Intellectuals
– Glazer, Nathan. "Blacks, Jews & the Intellectuals." Commentary, 1969.Excerpt: I think it is all for the best that Earl Raab and Milton Himmelfarb have raised as sharply as they have in the pages of Commentary the issue of black anti-Semitism-its extent, its… More
Remembering the Answers: Essays on the American Student Revolt
– Glazer, Nathan. Remembering the Answers: Essays on the American Student Revolt. New York: Basic Books, 1971.In Remembering the Answers, Glazer recounts the educational and political events at Berkeley during the 1960s. He specifically focuses on the student riots in 1964 and 1968, the New Left,… More
Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 – The Role of the Intellectual
– Glazer, Nathan. "Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 - The Role of the Intellectual." Commentary, September, 1971.Excerpt: It is notoriously difficult to frame a definition of “intellectuals” that will serve for all times and all issues, but let me suggest a working one: Intellectuals are people… More
Hannah Arendt’s America
– Glazer, Nathan. "Hannah Arendt's America." Commentary, 1975.Excerpt: Hannah Arendt is our teacher. First, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, she taught us about the great horror of our time; then, in The Human Condition, she taught us about how the… More
An Answer to Lillian Hellman
– Glazer, Nathan. "An Answer to Lillian Hellman." Commentary, 1976.Excerpt: Lillian Hellman’s Scoundrel Time, tells the story of her appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, and tells something, in flashbacks, of her… More
The Rediscovery of the Family
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Rediscovery of the Family." Commentary, 1978.Excerpt: A funny thing happened on the way to developing a radical critique of the American family: it has turned out that the old model was not so bad after all. One of our best-known… More
The Limits of Social Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. The Limits of Social Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.Written in 1988, The Limits of Social Policy looks back at the social policies of the 1960s and 1970s, and how they went wrong in the 1980s with social scientists, politicians, and… More
Lipset’s big question
– Glazer, Nathan. "Lipset's big question." The Public Interest 148 (2002): 111-118.Excerpt: Seymore Martin Lipset and Gary Marks’ It Didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States represents Lipset’s most recent and most substantial entry in his… More
Neoconservative from the Start
– Glazer, Nathan. "Neoconservative from the start." The Public Interest 159 (2005): 12-17.Excerpt: When Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol were discussing founding a new journal, The Public Interest, I was teaching at the University of California in Berkeley, after having worked for… More
Exceptionalist
– Glazer, Nathan. "Exceptionalist." The New Republic, January 22, 2007.Excerpt: Seymour Martin Lipset, the distinguished political sociologist who died on December 31, 2006, tells the story in a memoir of how he shifted in City College (CCNY) from science—as… More
A Word From Our Sponsor: The Might Wurlitzer by Hugh Wilford Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "A Word From Our Sponsor" Review of The Mighty Wurlitzer by Hugh Wilford, The New York Times, January 20, 2008.Excerpt: This is a book whose content somewhat contradicts its title. “Mighty Wurlitzer” was the metaphor Frank Wisner, the first chief of political warfare for the Central Intelligence… More
The Interested Man
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Interested Man." The New Republic, October 2, 2009.Excerpt: When Irving Kristol joined the new magazine Commentary, he distinguished himself from the other editors–Clement Greenberg, part-time then, Robert Warshow, and me. First, he… More
Essays
The Parlor Terrorists
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Parlor Terrorists." Commentary, January, 1947.Excerpt: If some of my best friends are right, and the big thing right now is to show that the Jew is as common a common man as the next, Arthur Koestler’s Thieves in the Night is the… More
The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile." Commentary, June, 1950.Excerpt: Four years ago, this department reported on an approach to the study of prejudice which, it was predicted, held great promise for the future: Else Frenkel-Brunswik and R. Nevitt… More
Dissent: A Quarterly of Socialist Opinion Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Dissent: A Quarterly of Socialist Opinion' Reviewed." Review of Dissent, Commentary, February, 1954.Excerpt: When, about a year ago, one heard that a group of writers dissatisfied with the prevailing trends in American politics—Irving Howe, Lewis Coser, Travers Clement, Meyer Schapiro,… More
Blacks, Jews & the Intellectuals
– Glazer, Nathan. "Blacks, Jews & the Intellectuals." Commentary, 1969.Excerpt: I think it is all for the best that Earl Raab and Milton Himmelfarb have raised as sharply as they have in the pages of Commentary the issue of black anti-Semitism-its extent, its… More
Remembering the Answers: Essays on the American Student Revolt
– Glazer, Nathan. Remembering the Answers: Essays on the American Student Revolt. New York: Basic Books, 1971.In Remembering the Answers, Glazer recounts the educational and political events at Berkeley during the 1960s. He specifically focuses on the student riots in 1964 and 1968, the New Left,… More
Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 – The Role of the Intellectual
– Glazer, Nathan. "Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 - The Role of the Intellectual." Commentary, September, 1971.Excerpt: It is notoriously difficult to frame a definition of “intellectuals” that will serve for all times and all issues, but let me suggest a working one: Intellectuals are people… More
Hannah Arendt’s America
– Glazer, Nathan. "Hannah Arendt's America." Commentary, 1975.Excerpt: Hannah Arendt is our teacher. First, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, she taught us about the great horror of our time; then, in The Human Condition, she taught us about how the… More
An Answer to Lillian Hellman
– Glazer, Nathan. "An Answer to Lillian Hellman." Commentary, 1976.Excerpt: Lillian Hellman’s Scoundrel Time, tells the story of her appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, and tells something, in flashbacks, of her… More
The Rediscovery of the Family
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Rediscovery of the Family." Commentary, 1978.Excerpt: A funny thing happened on the way to developing a radical critique of the American family: it has turned out that the old model was not so bad after all. One of our best-known… More
The Limits of Social Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. The Limits of Social Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.Written in 1988, The Limits of Social Policy looks back at the social policies of the 1960s and 1970s, and how they went wrong in the 1980s with social scientists, politicians, and… More
Lipset’s big question
– Glazer, Nathan. "Lipset's big question." The Public Interest 148 (2002): 111-118.Excerpt: Seymore Martin Lipset and Gary Marks’ It Didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States represents Lipset’s most recent and most substantial entry in his… More
Neoconservative from the Start
– Glazer, Nathan. "Neoconservative from the start." The Public Interest 159 (2005): 12-17.Excerpt: When Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol were discussing founding a new journal, The Public Interest, I was teaching at the University of California in Berkeley, after having worked for… More
Exceptionalist
– Glazer, Nathan. "Exceptionalist." The New Republic, January 22, 2007.Excerpt: Seymour Martin Lipset, the distinguished political sociologist who died on December 31, 2006, tells the story in a memoir of how he shifted in City College (CCNY) from science—as… More
A Word From Our Sponsor: The Might Wurlitzer by Hugh Wilford Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "A Word From Our Sponsor" Review of The Mighty Wurlitzer by Hugh Wilford, The New York Times, January 20, 2008.Excerpt: This is a book whose content somewhat contradicts its title. “Mighty Wurlitzer” was the metaphor Frank Wisner, the first chief of political warfare for the Central Intelligence… More
The Interested Man
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Interested Man." The New Republic, October 2, 2009.Excerpt: When Irving Kristol joined the new magazine Commentary, he distinguished himself from the other editors–Clement Greenberg, part-time then, Robert Warshow, and me. First, he… More
Commentary
The Parlor Terrorists
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Parlor Terrorists." Commentary, January, 1947.Excerpt: If some of my best friends are right, and the big thing right now is to show that the Jew is as common a common man as the next, Arthur Koestler’s Thieves in the Night is the… More
The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile." Commentary, June, 1950.Excerpt: Four years ago, this department reported on an approach to the study of prejudice which, it was predicted, held great promise for the future: Else Frenkel-Brunswik and R. Nevitt… More
Dissent: A Quarterly of Socialist Opinion Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Dissent: A Quarterly of Socialist Opinion' Reviewed." Review of Dissent, Commentary, February, 1954.Excerpt: When, about a year ago, one heard that a group of writers dissatisfied with the prevailing trends in American politics—Irving Howe, Lewis Coser, Travers Clement, Meyer Schapiro,… More
Blacks, Jews & the Intellectuals
– Glazer, Nathan. "Blacks, Jews & the Intellectuals." Commentary, 1969.Excerpt: I think it is all for the best that Earl Raab and Milton Himmelfarb have raised as sharply as they have in the pages of Commentary the issue of black anti-Semitism-its extent, its… More
Remembering the Answers: Essays on the American Student Revolt
– Glazer, Nathan. Remembering the Answers: Essays on the American Student Revolt. New York: Basic Books, 1971.In Remembering the Answers, Glazer recounts the educational and political events at Berkeley during the 1960s. He specifically focuses on the student riots in 1964 and 1968, the New Left,… More
Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 – The Role of the Intellectual
– Glazer, Nathan. "Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 - The Role of the Intellectual." Commentary, September, 1971.Excerpt: It is notoriously difficult to frame a definition of “intellectuals” that will serve for all times and all issues, but let me suggest a working one: Intellectuals are people… More
Hannah Arendt’s America
– Glazer, Nathan. "Hannah Arendt's America." Commentary, 1975.Excerpt: Hannah Arendt is our teacher. First, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, she taught us about the great horror of our time; then, in The Human Condition, she taught us about how the… More
An Answer to Lillian Hellman
– Glazer, Nathan. "An Answer to Lillian Hellman." Commentary, 1976.Excerpt: Lillian Hellman’s Scoundrel Time, tells the story of her appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, and tells something, in flashbacks, of her… More
The Rediscovery of the Family
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Rediscovery of the Family." Commentary, 1978.Excerpt: A funny thing happened on the way to developing a radical critique of the American family: it has turned out that the old model was not so bad after all. One of our best-known… More
The Limits of Social Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. The Limits of Social Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.Written in 1988, The Limits of Social Policy looks back at the social policies of the 1960s and 1970s, and how they went wrong in the 1980s with social scientists, politicians, and… More
Lipset’s big question
– Glazer, Nathan. "Lipset's big question." The Public Interest 148 (2002): 111-118.Excerpt: Seymore Martin Lipset and Gary Marks’ It Didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States represents Lipset’s most recent and most substantial entry in his… More
Neoconservative from the Start
– Glazer, Nathan. "Neoconservative from the start." The Public Interest 159 (2005): 12-17.Excerpt: When Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol were discussing founding a new journal, The Public Interest, I was teaching at the University of California in Berkeley, after having worked for… More
Exceptionalist
– Glazer, Nathan. "Exceptionalist." The New Republic, January 22, 2007.Excerpt: Seymour Martin Lipset, the distinguished political sociologist who died on December 31, 2006, tells the story in a memoir of how he shifted in City College (CCNY) from science—as… More
A Word From Our Sponsor: The Might Wurlitzer by Hugh Wilford Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "A Word From Our Sponsor" Review of The Mighty Wurlitzer by Hugh Wilford, The New York Times, January 20, 2008.Excerpt: This is a book whose content somewhat contradicts its title. “Mighty Wurlitzer” was the metaphor Frank Wisner, the first chief of political warfare for the Central Intelligence… More
The Interested Man
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Interested Man." The New Republic, October 2, 2009.Excerpt: When Irving Kristol joined the new magazine Commentary, he distinguished himself from the other editors–Clement Greenberg, part-time then, Robert Warshow, and me. First, he… More
Multimedia
The Parlor Terrorists
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Parlor Terrorists." Commentary, January, 1947.Excerpt: If some of my best friends are right, and the big thing right now is to show that the Jew is as common a common man as the next, Arthur Koestler’s Thieves in the Night is the… More
The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile." Commentary, June, 1950.Excerpt: Four years ago, this department reported on an approach to the study of prejudice which, it was predicted, held great promise for the future: Else Frenkel-Brunswik and R. Nevitt… More
Dissent: A Quarterly of Socialist Opinion Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Dissent: A Quarterly of Socialist Opinion' Reviewed." Review of Dissent, Commentary, February, 1954.Excerpt: When, about a year ago, one heard that a group of writers dissatisfied with the prevailing trends in American politics—Irving Howe, Lewis Coser, Travers Clement, Meyer Schapiro,… More
Blacks, Jews & the Intellectuals
– Glazer, Nathan. "Blacks, Jews & the Intellectuals." Commentary, 1969.Excerpt: I think it is all for the best that Earl Raab and Milton Himmelfarb have raised as sharply as they have in the pages of Commentary the issue of black anti-Semitism-its extent, its… More
Remembering the Answers: Essays on the American Student Revolt
– Glazer, Nathan. Remembering the Answers: Essays on the American Student Revolt. New York: Basic Books, 1971.In Remembering the Answers, Glazer recounts the educational and political events at Berkeley during the 1960s. He specifically focuses on the student riots in 1964 and 1968, the New Left,… More
Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 – The Role of the Intellectual
– Glazer, Nathan. "Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 - The Role of the Intellectual." Commentary, September, 1971.Excerpt: It is notoriously difficult to frame a definition of “intellectuals” that will serve for all times and all issues, but let me suggest a working one: Intellectuals are people… More
Hannah Arendt’s America
– Glazer, Nathan. "Hannah Arendt's America." Commentary, 1975.Excerpt: Hannah Arendt is our teacher. First, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, she taught us about the great horror of our time; then, in The Human Condition, she taught us about how the… More
An Answer to Lillian Hellman
– Glazer, Nathan. "An Answer to Lillian Hellman." Commentary, 1976.Excerpt: Lillian Hellman’s Scoundrel Time, tells the story of her appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, and tells something, in flashbacks, of her… More
The Rediscovery of the Family
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Rediscovery of the Family." Commentary, 1978.Excerpt: A funny thing happened on the way to developing a radical critique of the American family: it has turned out that the old model was not so bad after all. One of our best-known… More
The Limits of Social Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. The Limits of Social Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.Written in 1988, The Limits of Social Policy looks back at the social policies of the 1960s and 1970s, and how they went wrong in the 1980s with social scientists, politicians, and… More
Lipset’s big question
– Glazer, Nathan. "Lipset's big question." The Public Interest 148 (2002): 111-118.Excerpt: Seymore Martin Lipset and Gary Marks’ It Didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States represents Lipset’s most recent and most substantial entry in his… More
Neoconservative from the Start
– Glazer, Nathan. "Neoconservative from the start." The Public Interest 159 (2005): 12-17.Excerpt: When Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol were discussing founding a new journal, The Public Interest, I was teaching at the University of California in Berkeley, after having worked for… More
Exceptionalist
– Glazer, Nathan. "Exceptionalist." The New Republic, January 22, 2007.Excerpt: Seymour Martin Lipset, the distinguished political sociologist who died on December 31, 2006, tells the story in a memoir of how he shifted in City College (CCNY) from science—as… More
A Word From Our Sponsor: The Might Wurlitzer by Hugh Wilford Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "A Word From Our Sponsor" Review of The Mighty Wurlitzer by Hugh Wilford, The New York Times, January 20, 2008.Excerpt: This is a book whose content somewhat contradicts its title. “Mighty Wurlitzer” was the metaphor Frank Wisner, the first chief of political warfare for the Central Intelligence… More
The Interested Man
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Interested Man." The New Republic, October 2, 2009.Excerpt: When Irving Kristol joined the new magazine Commentary, he distinguished himself from the other editors–Clement Greenberg, part-time then, Robert Warshow, and me. First, he… More
Teaching
The Parlor Terrorists
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Parlor Terrorists." Commentary, January, 1947.Excerpt: If some of my best friends are right, and the big thing right now is to show that the Jew is as common a common man as the next, Arthur Koestler’s Thieves in the Night is the… More
The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile." Commentary, June, 1950.Excerpt: Four years ago, this department reported on an approach to the study of prejudice which, it was predicted, held great promise for the future: Else Frenkel-Brunswik and R. Nevitt… More
Dissent: A Quarterly of Socialist Opinion Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Dissent: A Quarterly of Socialist Opinion' Reviewed." Review of Dissent, Commentary, February, 1954.Excerpt: When, about a year ago, one heard that a group of writers dissatisfied with the prevailing trends in American politics—Irving Howe, Lewis Coser, Travers Clement, Meyer Schapiro,… More
Blacks, Jews & the Intellectuals
– Glazer, Nathan. "Blacks, Jews & the Intellectuals." Commentary, 1969.Excerpt: I think it is all for the best that Earl Raab and Milton Himmelfarb have raised as sharply as they have in the pages of Commentary the issue of black anti-Semitism-its extent, its… More
Remembering the Answers: Essays on the American Student Revolt
– Glazer, Nathan. Remembering the Answers: Essays on the American Student Revolt. New York: Basic Books, 1971.In Remembering the Answers, Glazer recounts the educational and political events at Berkeley during the 1960s. He specifically focuses on the student riots in 1964 and 1968, the New Left,… More
Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 – The Role of the Intellectual
– Glazer, Nathan. "Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 - The Role of the Intellectual." Commentary, September, 1971.Excerpt: It is notoriously difficult to frame a definition of “intellectuals” that will serve for all times and all issues, but let me suggest a working one: Intellectuals are people… More
Hannah Arendt’s America
– Glazer, Nathan. "Hannah Arendt's America." Commentary, 1975.Excerpt: Hannah Arendt is our teacher. First, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, she taught us about the great horror of our time; then, in The Human Condition, she taught us about how the… More
An Answer to Lillian Hellman
– Glazer, Nathan. "An Answer to Lillian Hellman." Commentary, 1976.Excerpt: Lillian Hellman’s Scoundrel Time, tells the story of her appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, and tells something, in flashbacks, of her… More
The Rediscovery of the Family
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Rediscovery of the Family." Commentary, 1978.Excerpt: A funny thing happened on the way to developing a radical critique of the American family: it has turned out that the old model was not so bad after all. One of our best-known… More
The Limits of Social Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. The Limits of Social Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.Written in 1988, The Limits of Social Policy looks back at the social policies of the 1960s and 1970s, and how they went wrong in the 1980s with social scientists, politicians, and… More
Lipset’s big question
– Glazer, Nathan. "Lipset's big question." The Public Interest 148 (2002): 111-118.Excerpt: Seymore Martin Lipset and Gary Marks’ It Didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States represents Lipset’s most recent and most substantial entry in his… More
Neoconservative from the Start
– Glazer, Nathan. "Neoconservative from the start." The Public Interest 159 (2005): 12-17.Excerpt: When Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol were discussing founding a new journal, The Public Interest, I was teaching at the University of California in Berkeley, after having worked for… More
Exceptionalist
– Glazer, Nathan. "Exceptionalist." The New Republic, January 22, 2007.Excerpt: Seymour Martin Lipset, the distinguished political sociologist who died on December 31, 2006, tells the story in a memoir of how he shifted in City College (CCNY) from science—as… More
A Word From Our Sponsor: The Might Wurlitzer by Hugh Wilford Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "A Word From Our Sponsor" Review of The Mighty Wurlitzer by Hugh Wilford, The New York Times, January 20, 2008.Excerpt: This is a book whose content somewhat contradicts its title. “Mighty Wurlitzer” was the metaphor Frank Wisner, the first chief of political warfare for the Central Intelligence… More
The Interested Man
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Interested Man." The New Republic, October 2, 2009.Excerpt: When Irving Kristol joined the new magazine Commentary, he distinguished himself from the other editors–Clement Greenberg, part-time then, Robert Warshow, and me. First, he… More