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The Study of Man: America’s Ethnic Pattern

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: America's Ethnic Pattern." Commentary, April, 1953.
Excerpt: The fact that Americans are also— and in many cases, primarily—Germans, Italians, Poles, Jews, etc. is taken with deadly seriousness by the general mass of Americans, but tends… More

Strangers in the Land by John Higham Reviewed

– Glazer, Nathan. "Strangers in the Land', by John Higham Reviewed." Review of Strangers in the Land, by John Higham, Commentary, June 1956.
Excerpt: John Higham’s book deals with the background of one of the most important decisions in American history—the decision, made thirty-five years ago, to limit immigrants to this… More

American Immigration, by Maldwyn Allen Jones; American Labor, by Henry Pelling; American Philanthropy, by Robert H. Bremner Reviewed

– Glazer, Nathan. “American Immigration, by Maldwyn Allen Jones; American Labor, by Henry Pelling; American Philanthropy, by Robert H. Bremner Reviewed." Commentary, August, 1960.
Excerpt: These three books are the most recent additions to the Chicago History of American Civilization, which has been imaginatively, even brilliantly, edited by Daniel Boorstin. It is… More

The Peace Movement in America… 1961

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Peace Movement in America... 1961." Commentary, 1961.
Excerpt: Why is it that the peace movement in America has never been able to attract the kind of mass support which has gathered around the peace movement in England? The danger of nuclear… More

Herbert H. Lehman of New York

– Glazer, Nathan. "Herbert H. Lehman of New York." Commentary, 1963.
Excerpt: To anyone growing up in New York City in the 1930’s, the trinity of LaGuardia, Lehman, and Roosevelt seemed as fixed and permanent as the city streets. It was hardly possible… More

Housing Problems and Housing Policies

– Glazer, Nathan. "Housing Problems and Housing Policies." The Public Interest, 1967.
Excerpt: The question of what is “good housing” is never as simple as it appears. Primitive dwellings on Greek isles delight architects and city planners who are horrified by the… More

A New Look at the Melting Pot

– Glazer, Nathan. "A new look at the melting pot." The Public Interest, 1969.
Excerpt: The major part of Beyond the Melting Pot by myself and Daniel P. Moynihan dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner’s second term, that the chapters… More

The Exposed American Jew

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Exposed American Jew," Commentary, 1975.
Excerpt: Until four or five years ago, it could be argued—and I myself did so argue—that the concern of some Jewish community leaders for the position of Jews in the United States was… More

Towards an imperial judiciary?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Towards an imperial judiciary?" The Public Interest, 1975.
Excerpt: A non-lawyer who considers the remarkable role of courts in the interpretation of the Constitution and the laws in the United States finds himself in a never-never land-one in… More

American Values & American Foreign Policy

– Glazer, Nathan. "American Values & American Foreign Policy." Commentary, 1976.
Excerpt: The United States is probably the only major country in the world in which it is taken quite as a matter of course that people will talk seriously about the relation of the… 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

Ethnicity – North, South, West

– Glazer, Nathan. "Ethnicity - North, South, West." Commentary 73 (1982): 73-79.
Excerpt: Twelve years ago, Daniel P. Moynihan and I, reviewing the condition of politics in New York City for the second edition of Beyond the Melting Pot, described two models of group… More

Ethnic Groups in History Textbooks

– Glazer, Nathan and Reed Ueda. Ethnic Groups in History Textbooks. Washington: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1983.
By comparing six American history textbooks, Glazer and Ueda find an attempt by the authors to foster understanding and respect toward all ethnic groups.  Yet, they believe U.S. ethnic… More

How Has The U.S. Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945?

– Glazer, Nathan. "How Has The U.S. Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945." Commentary (1985).
Excerpt: Exactly forty years ago, in the first issue of Commentary (November 1945), its founding editor, the late Elliot E. Cohen, wrote an introductory statement outlining the problems… More

The Constitution and American diversity

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Constitution and American diversity." The Public Interest 85 (1987): 10-21.
Excerpt: The celebration of the framing of the American Constitution comes close upon the heels of the celebration of the hundredth anniversary and rededication of the Statue of Liberty.… More

The Closing Door

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Closing Door." The New Republic December 26, 1993.
Excerpt: Clearly we are at the beginning of a major debate on immigration. The issue has been raised most immediately in recent months by the immigrants, legal and illegal, now charged with… More

Immigration and the American future

– Glazer, Nathan. "Immigration and the American future." The Public Interest 118 (1995): 45-60.
Excerpt: The discussion of immigration and its impact on American society should be based on facts, on meaningful projections, and on a reasoned discussion of impacts in various areas. The… More

American epic: then and now

– Glazer, Nathan. "American epic: then and now." The Public Interest 130 (1998): 106-115.
Excerpt: Not long ago, the remarkably productive Michael Lind published The Alamo: An Epic. It is truly, perhaps surprisingly for our day, an epic poem, long—281 pages—as an epic should… More

Culture and achievement

– Glazer, Nathan. "Culture and achievement." The Public Interest, 2000.
Excerpt: The relationship between their cultures and the economic and political trajectories of nations and civilizations is now a major topic among analysts of the differences among… More

The American diversity and the 2000 Census

– Glazer, Nathan. "The American diversity and the 2000 Census." The Public Interest 144 (2001): 3-18.
Excerpt: The 2000 census, on which the Census Bureau started issuing reports in March and April of 2001, reflected, in its structure and its results, the two enduring themes of American… More

Do we Need the Census Race Question?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Do we need the census race question?" The Public Interest 149 (2002): 21-31.
Excerpt: A few years ago, asked to comment on the controversy over the demand of so-called multiracial advocacy groups for a “multiracial” category in the census, I made a brash and… More

Examining a Massacre

– Glazer, Nathan. "Examining a Massacre." Review of Columbine by David Cullen, Education Next, Winter 2010.
Excerpt: This book is clearly the last word on Columbine. The author has reported on the Columbine high-school massacre in various magazines and newspapers since 1999; he has interviewed,… More

Notes on the State of Black America

– Glazer, Nathan. "Notes on the State of Black America." The American Interest, July 1, 2010.
Excerpt: The election of Barack Obama to the presidency in November 2008 marked a paradox in the long history of race in America that has not been much noticed: The installation of the… More

E Pluribus Plures

– Glazer, Nathan. "E Pluribus Plures." Review of Patriotic Pluralism by Jeffrey E. Mirel, Education Next, Winter 2011.
Excerpt: Americanization, argues education historian Jeffrey Mirel in Patriotic Pluralism, both the process and the term, has been widely misunderstood and too narrowly interpreted in the… More

Belmont and Fishtown Part Ways

– Glazer, Nathan. "Belmont and Fishtown Part Ways." Review of Coming Apart by Charles Murray, Education Next, Fall 2012.
Excerpt: On the publication of Charles Murray’s Coming Apart, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote, “I’ll be shocked if there’s another book as important this year…,” but… More

Underachieving in America: Researchers document international gaps, a journalist seeks the cause

– Glazer, Nathan. "Underachieving in America: Researchers document international gaps, a journalist seeks the cause." Review of Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School by Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann, Education Next, Spring 2014.
Excerpt: Endangering Prosperity, with three distinguished authors and an eminent introducer, is devoted to one major point: the United States is truly falling behind not only the East Asian… More

Essays

The Study of Man: America’s Ethnic Pattern

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: America's Ethnic Pattern." Commentary, April, 1953.
Excerpt: The fact that Americans are also— and in many cases, primarily—Germans, Italians, Poles, Jews, etc. is taken with deadly seriousness by the general mass of Americans, but tends… More

Strangers in the Land by John Higham Reviewed

– Glazer, Nathan. "Strangers in the Land', by John Higham Reviewed." Review of Strangers in the Land, by John Higham, Commentary, June 1956.
Excerpt: John Higham’s book deals with the background of one of the most important decisions in American history—the decision, made thirty-five years ago, to limit immigrants to this… More

American Immigration, by Maldwyn Allen Jones; American Labor, by Henry Pelling; American Philanthropy, by Robert H. Bremner Reviewed

– Glazer, Nathan. “American Immigration, by Maldwyn Allen Jones; American Labor, by Henry Pelling; American Philanthropy, by Robert H. Bremner Reviewed." Commentary, August, 1960.
Excerpt: These three books are the most recent additions to the Chicago History of American Civilization, which has been imaginatively, even brilliantly, edited by Daniel Boorstin. It is… More

The Peace Movement in America… 1961

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Peace Movement in America... 1961." Commentary, 1961.
Excerpt: Why is it that the peace movement in America has never been able to attract the kind of mass support which has gathered around the peace movement in England? The danger of nuclear… More

Herbert H. Lehman of New York

– Glazer, Nathan. "Herbert H. Lehman of New York." Commentary, 1963.
Excerpt: To anyone growing up in New York City in the 1930’s, the trinity of LaGuardia, Lehman, and Roosevelt seemed as fixed and permanent as the city streets. It was hardly possible… More

Housing Problems and Housing Policies

– Glazer, Nathan. "Housing Problems and Housing Policies." The Public Interest, 1967.
Excerpt: The question of what is “good housing” is never as simple as it appears. Primitive dwellings on Greek isles delight architects and city planners who are horrified by the… More

A New Look at the Melting Pot

– Glazer, Nathan. "A new look at the melting pot." The Public Interest, 1969.
Excerpt: The major part of Beyond the Melting Pot by myself and Daniel P. Moynihan dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner’s second term, that the chapters… More

The Exposed American Jew

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Exposed American Jew," Commentary, 1975.
Excerpt: Until four or five years ago, it could be argued—and I myself did so argue—that the concern of some Jewish community leaders for the position of Jews in the United States was… More

Towards an imperial judiciary?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Towards an imperial judiciary?" The Public Interest, 1975.
Excerpt: A non-lawyer who considers the remarkable role of courts in the interpretation of the Constitution and the laws in the United States finds himself in a never-never land-one in… More

American Values & American Foreign Policy

– Glazer, Nathan. "American Values & American Foreign Policy." Commentary, 1976.
Excerpt: The United States is probably the only major country in the world in which it is taken quite as a matter of course that people will talk seriously about the relation of the… 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

Ethnicity – North, South, West

– Glazer, Nathan. "Ethnicity - North, South, West." Commentary 73 (1982): 73-79.
Excerpt: Twelve years ago, Daniel P. Moynihan and I, reviewing the condition of politics in New York City for the second edition of Beyond the Melting Pot, described two models of group… More

Ethnic Groups in History Textbooks

– Glazer, Nathan and Reed Ueda. Ethnic Groups in History Textbooks. Washington: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1983.
By comparing six American history textbooks, Glazer and Ueda find an attempt by the authors to foster understanding and respect toward all ethnic groups.  Yet, they believe U.S. ethnic… More

How Has The U.S. Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945?

– Glazer, Nathan. "How Has The U.S. Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945." Commentary (1985).
Excerpt: Exactly forty years ago, in the first issue of Commentary (November 1945), its founding editor, the late Elliot E. Cohen, wrote an introductory statement outlining the problems… More

The Constitution and American diversity

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Constitution and American diversity." The Public Interest 85 (1987): 10-21.
Excerpt: The celebration of the framing of the American Constitution comes close upon the heels of the celebration of the hundredth anniversary and rededication of the Statue of Liberty.… More

The Closing Door

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Closing Door." The New Republic December 26, 1993.
Excerpt: Clearly we are at the beginning of a major debate on immigration. The issue has been raised most immediately in recent months by the immigrants, legal and illegal, now charged with… More

Immigration and the American future

– Glazer, Nathan. "Immigration and the American future." The Public Interest 118 (1995): 45-60.
Excerpt: The discussion of immigration and its impact on American society should be based on facts, on meaningful projections, and on a reasoned discussion of impacts in various areas. The… More

American epic: then and now

– Glazer, Nathan. "American epic: then and now." The Public Interest 130 (1998): 106-115.
Excerpt: Not long ago, the remarkably productive Michael Lind published The Alamo: An Epic. It is truly, perhaps surprisingly for our day, an epic poem, long—281 pages—as an epic should… More

Culture and achievement

– Glazer, Nathan. "Culture and achievement." The Public Interest, 2000.
Excerpt: The relationship between their cultures and the economic and political trajectories of nations and civilizations is now a major topic among analysts of the differences among… More

The American diversity and the 2000 Census

– Glazer, Nathan. "The American diversity and the 2000 Census." The Public Interest 144 (2001): 3-18.
Excerpt: The 2000 census, on which the Census Bureau started issuing reports in March and April of 2001, reflected, in its structure and its results, the two enduring themes of American… More

Do we Need the Census Race Question?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Do we need the census race question?" The Public Interest 149 (2002): 21-31.
Excerpt: A few years ago, asked to comment on the controversy over the demand of so-called multiracial advocacy groups for a “multiracial” category in the census, I made a brash and… More

Examining a Massacre

– Glazer, Nathan. "Examining a Massacre." Review of Columbine by David Cullen, Education Next, Winter 2010.
Excerpt: This book is clearly the last word on Columbine. The author has reported on the Columbine high-school massacre in various magazines and newspapers since 1999; he has interviewed,… More

Notes on the State of Black America

– Glazer, Nathan. "Notes on the State of Black America." The American Interest, July 1, 2010.
Excerpt: The election of Barack Obama to the presidency in November 2008 marked a paradox in the long history of race in America that has not been much noticed: The installation of the… More

E Pluribus Plures

– Glazer, Nathan. "E Pluribus Plures." Review of Patriotic Pluralism by Jeffrey E. Mirel, Education Next, Winter 2011.
Excerpt: Americanization, argues education historian Jeffrey Mirel in Patriotic Pluralism, both the process and the term, has been widely misunderstood and too narrowly interpreted in the… More

Belmont and Fishtown Part Ways

– Glazer, Nathan. "Belmont and Fishtown Part Ways." Review of Coming Apart by Charles Murray, Education Next, Fall 2012.
Excerpt: On the publication of Charles Murray’s Coming Apart, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote, “I’ll be shocked if there’s another book as important this year…,” but… More

Underachieving in America: Researchers document international gaps, a journalist seeks the cause

– Glazer, Nathan. "Underachieving in America: Researchers document international gaps, a journalist seeks the cause." Review of Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School by Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann, Education Next, Spring 2014.
Excerpt: Endangering Prosperity, with three distinguished authors and an eminent introducer, is devoted to one major point: the United States is truly falling behind not only the East Asian… More

Commentary

The Study of Man: America’s Ethnic Pattern

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: America's Ethnic Pattern." Commentary, April, 1953.
Excerpt: The fact that Americans are also— and in many cases, primarily—Germans, Italians, Poles, Jews, etc. is taken with deadly seriousness by the general mass of Americans, but tends… More

Strangers in the Land by John Higham Reviewed

– Glazer, Nathan. "Strangers in the Land', by John Higham Reviewed." Review of Strangers in the Land, by John Higham, Commentary, June 1956.
Excerpt: John Higham’s book deals with the background of one of the most important decisions in American history—the decision, made thirty-five years ago, to limit immigrants to this… More

American Immigration, by Maldwyn Allen Jones; American Labor, by Henry Pelling; American Philanthropy, by Robert H. Bremner Reviewed

– Glazer, Nathan. “American Immigration, by Maldwyn Allen Jones; American Labor, by Henry Pelling; American Philanthropy, by Robert H. Bremner Reviewed." Commentary, August, 1960.
Excerpt: These three books are the most recent additions to the Chicago History of American Civilization, which has been imaginatively, even brilliantly, edited by Daniel Boorstin. It is… More

The Peace Movement in America… 1961

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Peace Movement in America... 1961." Commentary, 1961.
Excerpt: Why is it that the peace movement in America has never been able to attract the kind of mass support which has gathered around the peace movement in England? The danger of nuclear… More

Herbert H. Lehman of New York

– Glazer, Nathan. "Herbert H. Lehman of New York." Commentary, 1963.
Excerpt: To anyone growing up in New York City in the 1930’s, the trinity of LaGuardia, Lehman, and Roosevelt seemed as fixed and permanent as the city streets. It was hardly possible… More

Housing Problems and Housing Policies

– Glazer, Nathan. "Housing Problems and Housing Policies." The Public Interest, 1967.
Excerpt: The question of what is “good housing” is never as simple as it appears. Primitive dwellings on Greek isles delight architects and city planners who are horrified by the… More

A New Look at the Melting Pot

– Glazer, Nathan. "A new look at the melting pot." The Public Interest, 1969.
Excerpt: The major part of Beyond the Melting Pot by myself and Daniel P. Moynihan dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner’s second term, that the chapters… More

The Exposed American Jew

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Exposed American Jew," Commentary, 1975.
Excerpt: Until four or five years ago, it could be argued—and I myself did so argue—that the concern of some Jewish community leaders for the position of Jews in the United States was… More

Towards an imperial judiciary?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Towards an imperial judiciary?" The Public Interest, 1975.
Excerpt: A non-lawyer who considers the remarkable role of courts in the interpretation of the Constitution and the laws in the United States finds himself in a never-never land-one in… More

American Values & American Foreign Policy

– Glazer, Nathan. "American Values & American Foreign Policy." Commentary, 1976.
Excerpt: The United States is probably the only major country in the world in which it is taken quite as a matter of course that people will talk seriously about the relation of the… 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

Ethnicity – North, South, West

– Glazer, Nathan. "Ethnicity - North, South, West." Commentary 73 (1982): 73-79.
Excerpt: Twelve years ago, Daniel P. Moynihan and I, reviewing the condition of politics in New York City for the second edition of Beyond the Melting Pot, described two models of group… More

Ethnic Groups in History Textbooks

– Glazer, Nathan and Reed Ueda. Ethnic Groups in History Textbooks. Washington: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1983.
By comparing six American history textbooks, Glazer and Ueda find an attempt by the authors to foster understanding and respect toward all ethnic groups.  Yet, they believe U.S. ethnic… More

How Has The U.S. Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945?

– Glazer, Nathan. "How Has The U.S. Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945." Commentary (1985).
Excerpt: Exactly forty years ago, in the first issue of Commentary (November 1945), its founding editor, the late Elliot E. Cohen, wrote an introductory statement outlining the problems… More

The Constitution and American diversity

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Constitution and American diversity." The Public Interest 85 (1987): 10-21.
Excerpt: The celebration of the framing of the American Constitution comes close upon the heels of the celebration of the hundredth anniversary and rededication of the Statue of Liberty.… More

The Closing Door

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Closing Door." The New Republic December 26, 1993.
Excerpt: Clearly we are at the beginning of a major debate on immigration. The issue has been raised most immediately in recent months by the immigrants, legal and illegal, now charged with… More

Immigration and the American future

– Glazer, Nathan. "Immigration and the American future." The Public Interest 118 (1995): 45-60.
Excerpt: The discussion of immigration and its impact on American society should be based on facts, on meaningful projections, and on a reasoned discussion of impacts in various areas. The… More

American epic: then and now

– Glazer, Nathan. "American epic: then and now." The Public Interest 130 (1998): 106-115.
Excerpt: Not long ago, the remarkably productive Michael Lind published The Alamo: An Epic. It is truly, perhaps surprisingly for our day, an epic poem, long—281 pages—as an epic should… More

Culture and achievement

– Glazer, Nathan. "Culture and achievement." The Public Interest, 2000.
Excerpt: The relationship between their cultures and the economic and political trajectories of nations and civilizations is now a major topic among analysts of the differences among… More

The American diversity and the 2000 Census

– Glazer, Nathan. "The American diversity and the 2000 Census." The Public Interest 144 (2001): 3-18.
Excerpt: The 2000 census, on which the Census Bureau started issuing reports in March and April of 2001, reflected, in its structure and its results, the two enduring themes of American… More

Do we Need the Census Race Question?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Do we need the census race question?" The Public Interest 149 (2002): 21-31.
Excerpt: A few years ago, asked to comment on the controversy over the demand of so-called multiracial advocacy groups for a “multiracial” category in the census, I made a brash and… More

Examining a Massacre

– Glazer, Nathan. "Examining a Massacre." Review of Columbine by David Cullen, Education Next, Winter 2010.
Excerpt: This book is clearly the last word on Columbine. The author has reported on the Columbine high-school massacre in various magazines and newspapers since 1999; he has interviewed,… More

Notes on the State of Black America

– Glazer, Nathan. "Notes on the State of Black America." The American Interest, July 1, 2010.
Excerpt: The election of Barack Obama to the presidency in November 2008 marked a paradox in the long history of race in America that has not been much noticed: The installation of the… More

E Pluribus Plures

– Glazer, Nathan. "E Pluribus Plures." Review of Patriotic Pluralism by Jeffrey E. Mirel, Education Next, Winter 2011.
Excerpt: Americanization, argues education historian Jeffrey Mirel in Patriotic Pluralism, both the process and the term, has been widely misunderstood and too narrowly interpreted in the… More

Belmont and Fishtown Part Ways

– Glazer, Nathan. "Belmont and Fishtown Part Ways." Review of Coming Apart by Charles Murray, Education Next, Fall 2012.
Excerpt: On the publication of Charles Murray’s Coming Apart, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote, “I’ll be shocked if there’s another book as important this year…,” but… More

Underachieving in America: Researchers document international gaps, a journalist seeks the cause

– Glazer, Nathan. "Underachieving in America: Researchers document international gaps, a journalist seeks the cause." Review of Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School by Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann, Education Next, Spring 2014.
Excerpt: Endangering Prosperity, with three distinguished authors and an eminent introducer, is devoted to one major point: the United States is truly falling behind not only the East Asian… More

Multimedia

The Study of Man: America’s Ethnic Pattern

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: America's Ethnic Pattern." Commentary, April, 1953.
Excerpt: The fact that Americans are also— and in many cases, primarily—Germans, Italians, Poles, Jews, etc. is taken with deadly seriousness by the general mass of Americans, but tends… More

Strangers in the Land by John Higham Reviewed

– Glazer, Nathan. "Strangers in the Land', by John Higham Reviewed." Review of Strangers in the Land, by John Higham, Commentary, June 1956.
Excerpt: John Higham’s book deals with the background of one of the most important decisions in American history—the decision, made thirty-five years ago, to limit immigrants to this… More

American Immigration, by Maldwyn Allen Jones; American Labor, by Henry Pelling; American Philanthropy, by Robert H. Bremner Reviewed

– Glazer, Nathan. “American Immigration, by Maldwyn Allen Jones; American Labor, by Henry Pelling; American Philanthropy, by Robert H. Bremner Reviewed." Commentary, August, 1960.
Excerpt: These three books are the most recent additions to the Chicago History of American Civilization, which has been imaginatively, even brilliantly, edited by Daniel Boorstin. It is… More

The Peace Movement in America… 1961

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Peace Movement in America... 1961." Commentary, 1961.
Excerpt: Why is it that the peace movement in America has never been able to attract the kind of mass support which has gathered around the peace movement in England? The danger of nuclear… More

Herbert H. Lehman of New York

– Glazer, Nathan. "Herbert H. Lehman of New York." Commentary, 1963.
Excerpt: To anyone growing up in New York City in the 1930’s, the trinity of LaGuardia, Lehman, and Roosevelt seemed as fixed and permanent as the city streets. It was hardly possible… More

Housing Problems and Housing Policies

– Glazer, Nathan. "Housing Problems and Housing Policies." The Public Interest, 1967.
Excerpt: The question of what is “good housing” is never as simple as it appears. Primitive dwellings on Greek isles delight architects and city planners who are horrified by the… More

A New Look at the Melting Pot

– Glazer, Nathan. "A new look at the melting pot." The Public Interest, 1969.
Excerpt: The major part of Beyond the Melting Pot by myself and Daniel P. Moynihan dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner’s second term, that the chapters… More

The Exposed American Jew

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Exposed American Jew," Commentary, 1975.
Excerpt: Until four or five years ago, it could be argued—and I myself did so argue—that the concern of some Jewish community leaders for the position of Jews in the United States was… More

Towards an imperial judiciary?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Towards an imperial judiciary?" The Public Interest, 1975.
Excerpt: A non-lawyer who considers the remarkable role of courts in the interpretation of the Constitution and the laws in the United States finds himself in a never-never land-one in… More

American Values & American Foreign Policy

– Glazer, Nathan. "American Values & American Foreign Policy." Commentary, 1976.
Excerpt: The United States is probably the only major country in the world in which it is taken quite as a matter of course that people will talk seriously about the relation of the… 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

Ethnicity – North, South, West

– Glazer, Nathan. "Ethnicity - North, South, West." Commentary 73 (1982): 73-79.
Excerpt: Twelve years ago, Daniel P. Moynihan and I, reviewing the condition of politics in New York City for the second edition of Beyond the Melting Pot, described two models of group… More

Ethnic Groups in History Textbooks

– Glazer, Nathan and Reed Ueda. Ethnic Groups in History Textbooks. Washington: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1983.
By comparing six American history textbooks, Glazer and Ueda find an attempt by the authors to foster understanding and respect toward all ethnic groups.  Yet, they believe U.S. ethnic… More

How Has The U.S. Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945?

– Glazer, Nathan. "How Has The U.S. Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945." Commentary (1985).
Excerpt: Exactly forty years ago, in the first issue of Commentary (November 1945), its founding editor, the late Elliot E. Cohen, wrote an introductory statement outlining the problems… More

The Constitution and American diversity

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Constitution and American diversity." The Public Interest 85 (1987): 10-21.
Excerpt: The celebration of the framing of the American Constitution comes close upon the heels of the celebration of the hundredth anniversary and rededication of the Statue of Liberty.… More

The Closing Door

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Closing Door." The New Republic December 26, 1993.
Excerpt: Clearly we are at the beginning of a major debate on immigration. The issue has been raised most immediately in recent months by the immigrants, legal and illegal, now charged with… More

Immigration and the American future

– Glazer, Nathan. "Immigration and the American future." The Public Interest 118 (1995): 45-60.
Excerpt: The discussion of immigration and its impact on American society should be based on facts, on meaningful projections, and on a reasoned discussion of impacts in various areas. The… More

American epic: then and now

– Glazer, Nathan. "American epic: then and now." The Public Interest 130 (1998): 106-115.
Excerpt: Not long ago, the remarkably productive Michael Lind published The Alamo: An Epic. It is truly, perhaps surprisingly for our day, an epic poem, long—281 pages—as an epic should… More

Culture and achievement

– Glazer, Nathan. "Culture and achievement." The Public Interest, 2000.
Excerpt: The relationship between their cultures and the economic and political trajectories of nations and civilizations is now a major topic among analysts of the differences among… More

The American diversity and the 2000 Census

– Glazer, Nathan. "The American diversity and the 2000 Census." The Public Interest 144 (2001): 3-18.
Excerpt: The 2000 census, on which the Census Bureau started issuing reports in March and April of 2001, reflected, in its structure and its results, the two enduring themes of American… More

Do we Need the Census Race Question?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Do we need the census race question?" The Public Interest 149 (2002): 21-31.
Excerpt: A few years ago, asked to comment on the controversy over the demand of so-called multiracial advocacy groups for a “multiracial” category in the census, I made a brash and… More

Examining a Massacre

– Glazer, Nathan. "Examining a Massacre." Review of Columbine by David Cullen, Education Next, Winter 2010.
Excerpt: This book is clearly the last word on Columbine. The author has reported on the Columbine high-school massacre in various magazines and newspapers since 1999; he has interviewed,… More

Notes on the State of Black America

– Glazer, Nathan. "Notes on the State of Black America." The American Interest, July 1, 2010.
Excerpt: The election of Barack Obama to the presidency in November 2008 marked a paradox in the long history of race in America that has not been much noticed: The installation of the… More

E Pluribus Plures

– Glazer, Nathan. "E Pluribus Plures." Review of Patriotic Pluralism by Jeffrey E. Mirel, Education Next, Winter 2011.
Excerpt: Americanization, argues education historian Jeffrey Mirel in Patriotic Pluralism, both the process and the term, has been widely misunderstood and too narrowly interpreted in the… More

Belmont and Fishtown Part Ways

– Glazer, Nathan. "Belmont and Fishtown Part Ways." Review of Coming Apart by Charles Murray, Education Next, Fall 2012.
Excerpt: On the publication of Charles Murray’s Coming Apart, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote, “I’ll be shocked if there’s another book as important this year…,” but… More

Underachieving in America: Researchers document international gaps, a journalist seeks the cause

– Glazer, Nathan. "Underachieving in America: Researchers document international gaps, a journalist seeks the cause." Review of Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School by Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann, Education Next, Spring 2014.
Excerpt: Endangering Prosperity, with three distinguished authors and an eminent introducer, is devoted to one major point: the United States is truly falling behind not only the East Asian… More

Teaching

The Study of Man: America’s Ethnic Pattern

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: America's Ethnic Pattern." Commentary, April, 1953.
Excerpt: The fact that Americans are also— and in many cases, primarily—Germans, Italians, Poles, Jews, etc. is taken with deadly seriousness by the general mass of Americans, but tends… More

Strangers in the Land by John Higham Reviewed

– Glazer, Nathan. "Strangers in the Land', by John Higham Reviewed." Review of Strangers in the Land, by John Higham, Commentary, June 1956.
Excerpt: John Higham’s book deals with the background of one of the most important decisions in American history—the decision, made thirty-five years ago, to limit immigrants to this… More

American Immigration, by Maldwyn Allen Jones; American Labor, by Henry Pelling; American Philanthropy, by Robert H. Bremner Reviewed

– Glazer, Nathan. “American Immigration, by Maldwyn Allen Jones; American Labor, by Henry Pelling; American Philanthropy, by Robert H. Bremner Reviewed." Commentary, August, 1960.
Excerpt: These three books are the most recent additions to the Chicago History of American Civilization, which has been imaginatively, even brilliantly, edited by Daniel Boorstin. It is… More

The Peace Movement in America… 1961

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Peace Movement in America... 1961." Commentary, 1961.
Excerpt: Why is it that the peace movement in America has never been able to attract the kind of mass support which has gathered around the peace movement in England? The danger of nuclear… More

Herbert H. Lehman of New York

– Glazer, Nathan. "Herbert H. Lehman of New York." Commentary, 1963.
Excerpt: To anyone growing up in New York City in the 1930’s, the trinity of LaGuardia, Lehman, and Roosevelt seemed as fixed and permanent as the city streets. It was hardly possible… More

Housing Problems and Housing Policies

– Glazer, Nathan. "Housing Problems and Housing Policies." The Public Interest, 1967.
Excerpt: The question of what is “good housing” is never as simple as it appears. Primitive dwellings on Greek isles delight architects and city planners who are horrified by the… More

A New Look at the Melting Pot

– Glazer, Nathan. "A new look at the melting pot." The Public Interest, 1969.
Excerpt: The major part of Beyond the Melting Pot by myself and Daniel P. Moynihan dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner’s second term, that the chapters… More

The Exposed American Jew

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Exposed American Jew," Commentary, 1975.
Excerpt: Until four or five years ago, it could be argued—and I myself did so argue—that the concern of some Jewish community leaders for the position of Jews in the United States was… More

Towards an imperial judiciary?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Towards an imperial judiciary?" The Public Interest, 1975.
Excerpt: A non-lawyer who considers the remarkable role of courts in the interpretation of the Constitution and the laws in the United States finds himself in a never-never land-one in… More

American Values & American Foreign Policy

– Glazer, Nathan. "American Values & American Foreign Policy." Commentary, 1976.
Excerpt: The United States is probably the only major country in the world in which it is taken quite as a matter of course that people will talk seriously about the relation of the… 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

Ethnicity – North, South, West

– Glazer, Nathan. "Ethnicity - North, South, West." Commentary 73 (1982): 73-79.
Excerpt: Twelve years ago, Daniel P. Moynihan and I, reviewing the condition of politics in New York City for the second edition of Beyond the Melting Pot, described two models of group… More

Ethnic Groups in History Textbooks

– Glazer, Nathan and Reed Ueda. Ethnic Groups in History Textbooks. Washington: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1983.
By comparing six American history textbooks, Glazer and Ueda find an attempt by the authors to foster understanding and respect toward all ethnic groups.  Yet, they believe U.S. ethnic… More

How Has The U.S. Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945?

– Glazer, Nathan. "How Has The U.S. Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945." Commentary (1985).
Excerpt: Exactly forty years ago, in the first issue of Commentary (November 1945), its founding editor, the late Elliot E. Cohen, wrote an introductory statement outlining the problems… More

The Constitution and American diversity

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Constitution and American diversity." The Public Interest 85 (1987): 10-21.
Excerpt: The celebration of the framing of the American Constitution comes close upon the heels of the celebration of the hundredth anniversary and rededication of the Statue of Liberty.… More

The Closing Door

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Closing Door." The New Republic December 26, 1993.
Excerpt: Clearly we are at the beginning of a major debate on immigration. The issue has been raised most immediately in recent months by the immigrants, legal and illegal, now charged with… More

Immigration and the American future

– Glazer, Nathan. "Immigration and the American future." The Public Interest 118 (1995): 45-60.
Excerpt: The discussion of immigration and its impact on American society should be based on facts, on meaningful projections, and on a reasoned discussion of impacts in various areas. The… More

American epic: then and now

– Glazer, Nathan. "American epic: then and now." The Public Interest 130 (1998): 106-115.
Excerpt: Not long ago, the remarkably productive Michael Lind published The Alamo: An Epic. It is truly, perhaps surprisingly for our day, an epic poem, long—281 pages—as an epic should… More

Culture and achievement

– Glazer, Nathan. "Culture and achievement." The Public Interest, 2000.
Excerpt: The relationship between their cultures and the economic and political trajectories of nations and civilizations is now a major topic among analysts of the differences among… More

The American diversity and the 2000 Census

– Glazer, Nathan. "The American diversity and the 2000 Census." The Public Interest 144 (2001): 3-18.
Excerpt: The 2000 census, on which the Census Bureau started issuing reports in March and April of 2001, reflected, in its structure and its results, the two enduring themes of American… More

Do we Need the Census Race Question?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Do we need the census race question?" The Public Interest 149 (2002): 21-31.
Excerpt: A few years ago, asked to comment on the controversy over the demand of so-called multiracial advocacy groups for a “multiracial” category in the census, I made a brash and… More

Examining a Massacre

– Glazer, Nathan. "Examining a Massacre." Review of Columbine by David Cullen, Education Next, Winter 2010.
Excerpt: This book is clearly the last word on Columbine. The author has reported on the Columbine high-school massacre in various magazines and newspapers since 1999; he has interviewed,… More

Notes on the State of Black America

– Glazer, Nathan. "Notes on the State of Black America." The American Interest, July 1, 2010.
Excerpt: The election of Barack Obama to the presidency in November 2008 marked a paradox in the long history of race in America that has not been much noticed: The installation of the… More

E Pluribus Plures

– Glazer, Nathan. "E Pluribus Plures." Review of Patriotic Pluralism by Jeffrey E. Mirel, Education Next, Winter 2011.
Excerpt: Americanization, argues education historian Jeffrey Mirel in Patriotic Pluralism, both the process and the term, has been widely misunderstood and too narrowly interpreted in the… More

Belmont and Fishtown Part Ways

– Glazer, Nathan. "Belmont and Fishtown Part Ways." Review of Coming Apart by Charles Murray, Education Next, Fall 2012.
Excerpt: On the publication of Charles Murray’s Coming Apart, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote, “I’ll be shocked if there’s another book as important this year…,” but… More

Underachieving in America: Researchers document international gaps, a journalist seeks the cause

– Glazer, Nathan. "Underachieving in America: Researchers document international gaps, a journalist seeks the cause." Review of Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School by Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann, Education Next, Spring 2014.
Excerpt: Endangering Prosperity, with three distinguished authors and an eminent introducer, is devoted to one major point: the United States is truly falling behind not only the East Asian… More