Books
The Study of Man
– "The Study of Man." Commentary, November, 1945.Excerpt: Social scientists can no longer be reproached for busying themselves with theoretical issues while ignoring the major problems confronting mankind. The ivory towers now stand… More
The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation
– "The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation." Commentary, July, 1946.Excerpt: Everyone within reach of a radio loudspeaker or a newspaper headline knows of the tremendous advances made by science during the war: atomic bombs, radiocontrolled planes, rockets… More
The Study of Man: The Alienation of Modern Man
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: The Alienation of Modern Man." Commentary, 1947.Excerpt: If, as Sidney Hook wrote recently, the two great semantic beacons of our time are the terms “transition” and “crisis,” then a third term is perhaps necessary to capture the… More
‘Science is a Sacred Cow’ by Anthony Standen Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "'Science is a Sacred Cow' by Anthony Standen Reviewed." Review of Science is a Sacred Cow, by Anthony Standen, Commentary, August, 1950.Excerpt: From a distance, science looks as a whole like the secure, foolproof, intelligent, and eminently successful enterprise that it is only in part. Up close one discovers that the… More
The Troubled Air, by Irwin Shaw Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Troubled Air," Commentary, April, 1950.Excerpt: One by one, our young novelists are moving from considerations of war and its aftermath to considerations of politics. Irwin Shaw has selected a narrower canvas than Norman Mailer,… More
The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell
– Glazer, Nathan. "Review of The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell," Commentary, July, 1952.Excerpt: Samuel Lubell’s The Future of American Politics is, in this reviewer’s opinion, the best book yet written on American politics of the last twenty years; and if a better… More
The Good Society
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Good Society." Commentary, September, 1963.Excerpt: It used to be—it seems to have been so even yesterday—that people with a reforming bent of mind knew, or thought they knew, what they meant by the “good society,” and they… More
On Task Forcing
– Glazer, Nathan. "On task forcing." The Public Interest, 1969.Excerpt: The presidential-transition task force has had a short history of only eight years. We have it on the authority of a very high figure in the present administration that the… More
The Limits of Social Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Limits of Social Policy." Commentary, September, 1971.Excerpt: There is a general sense that we face a crisis in social policy, and in almost all its branches. Whether this crisis derives from the backwardness of the United States in social… More
Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy. New York: Basic Books, 1975.In Glazer’s work Affirmative Discrimination, he argues against Affirmative Action. He evaluates the government’s use of public policy in regards to housing, employment, and… 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
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
Should Judges Administer Social Services?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Should judges administer social services?" The Public Interest, 1978.Excerpt: What role should the judiciary play in overseeing, correcting, setting standards for, and directly administering social services? The question must be raised because, in recent… More
Black English and reluctant judges
– Glazer, Nathan. "Black English and reluctant judges." The Public Interest 62 (1981): 40-54.Excerpt: Perhaps the most common defense of the remarkable expansion of judicial control and supervision of state institutions-schools, prisons, mental hospitals, state schools for the… More
IQ on Trial
– Glazer, Nathan. "IQ on Trial." Commentary, 1981.Excerpt: We are all increasingly governed by judicial decisions. Decrees of the court tell state officials and employees, teachers and school administrators, staff and administrators of… More
Towards a self-service society?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Towards a self-service society?" The Public Interest, 1983.Excerpt: Perhaps nothing so clearly indicates the possible future shape of the welfare society than the surprising convergence, in at least one respect, of the proposals of two such… More
Interests and passions
– Glazer, Nathan. "Interests and passions." The Public Interest 81 (1985): 17-30.Excerpt: The Public Interestwas launched under the sign of the interests; it now operates in an environment in which the passions are dominant. By “interests” I mean of course… 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 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
How social problems are born
– Glazer, Nathan. "How social problems are born." The Public Interest, 1994.Excerpt: How do we get more attention, more public action, for a problem we consider important? More important, how do we get the right kind of public attention and action, right in scale,… More
Black and white after thirty years
– Glazer, Nathan. "Black and white after thirty years." The Public Interest 121 (1995): 61-79.Excerpt: There is nothing that concentrates the mind on an issue more sharply than discovering one has been wrong about it. Twenty years ago, in an article in The Public Interest, I dealt… More
We Are All Multiculturalists Now
– Glazer, Nathan. We Are All Multiculturalists Now. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.Glazer explores the changes in American society, arguing that the “melting pot” and assimilation have been discarded in favor of multiculturalism. He highlights what this change means… More
Is Affirmative Action on Its Way Out? Should It Be?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Is Affirmative Action on Its Way Out? Should It Be?" Commentary (1998).Excerpt: For the past several decades, public and private institutions in the United States have operated under a system according to which designated minority groups receive special… More
In Defense of Preference
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Glazer, Nathan. "In Defense of Preference." The New Republic, April 6, 1998.
Excerpt: The battle over affirmative action today is a contest between a clear principle on the one hand and a clear reality on the other. The principle is that ability, qualifications, and… More
The case for racial preferences
– Glazer, Nathan. "The case for racial preferences." The Public Interest 135 (1999): 45-63.Excerpt: It rarely happens that answers to contested political questions can be found in a relevant body of data and empirical analysis. Certainly, a scarcity of data has long afflicted the… 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
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
Cautionary Tale
– Glazer, Nathan. "Cautionary Tale." Review of Schoolhouse of Cards by Eugene Hickok and Collision Course by Paul Manna, Education Next, Fall 2011.Excerpt: Whatever Possessed the President? was the unlikely title of Robert C. Wood’s memoir of urban policy during the 1960s. The same thought springs to mind in reading these two books… 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
Essays
The Study of Man
– "The Study of Man." Commentary, November, 1945.Excerpt: Social scientists can no longer be reproached for busying themselves with theoretical issues while ignoring the major problems confronting mankind. The ivory towers now stand… More
The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation
– "The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation." Commentary, July, 1946.Excerpt: Everyone within reach of a radio loudspeaker or a newspaper headline knows of the tremendous advances made by science during the war: atomic bombs, radiocontrolled planes, rockets… More
The Study of Man: The Alienation of Modern Man
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: The Alienation of Modern Man." Commentary, 1947.Excerpt: If, as Sidney Hook wrote recently, the two great semantic beacons of our time are the terms “transition” and “crisis,” then a third term is perhaps necessary to capture the… More
‘Science is a Sacred Cow’ by Anthony Standen Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "'Science is a Sacred Cow' by Anthony Standen Reviewed." Review of Science is a Sacred Cow, by Anthony Standen, Commentary, August, 1950.Excerpt: From a distance, science looks as a whole like the secure, foolproof, intelligent, and eminently successful enterprise that it is only in part. Up close one discovers that the… More
The Troubled Air, by Irwin Shaw Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Troubled Air," Commentary, April, 1950.Excerpt: One by one, our young novelists are moving from considerations of war and its aftermath to considerations of politics. Irwin Shaw has selected a narrower canvas than Norman Mailer,… More
The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell
– Glazer, Nathan. "Review of The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell," Commentary, July, 1952.Excerpt: Samuel Lubell’s The Future of American Politics is, in this reviewer’s opinion, the best book yet written on American politics of the last twenty years; and if a better… More
The Good Society
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Good Society." Commentary, September, 1963.Excerpt: It used to be—it seems to have been so even yesterday—that people with a reforming bent of mind knew, or thought they knew, what they meant by the “good society,” and they… More
On Task Forcing
– Glazer, Nathan. "On task forcing." The Public Interest, 1969.Excerpt: The presidential-transition task force has had a short history of only eight years. We have it on the authority of a very high figure in the present administration that the… More
The Limits of Social Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Limits of Social Policy." Commentary, September, 1971.Excerpt: There is a general sense that we face a crisis in social policy, and in almost all its branches. Whether this crisis derives from the backwardness of the United States in social… More
Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy. New York: Basic Books, 1975.In Glazer’s work Affirmative Discrimination, he argues against Affirmative Action. He evaluates the government’s use of public policy in regards to housing, employment, and… 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
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
Should Judges Administer Social Services?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Should judges administer social services?" The Public Interest, 1978.Excerpt: What role should the judiciary play in overseeing, correcting, setting standards for, and directly administering social services? The question must be raised because, in recent… More
Black English and reluctant judges
– Glazer, Nathan. "Black English and reluctant judges." The Public Interest 62 (1981): 40-54.Excerpt: Perhaps the most common defense of the remarkable expansion of judicial control and supervision of state institutions-schools, prisons, mental hospitals, state schools for the… More
IQ on Trial
– Glazer, Nathan. "IQ on Trial." Commentary, 1981.Excerpt: We are all increasingly governed by judicial decisions. Decrees of the court tell state officials and employees, teachers and school administrators, staff and administrators of… More
Towards a self-service society?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Towards a self-service society?" The Public Interest, 1983.Excerpt: Perhaps nothing so clearly indicates the possible future shape of the welfare society than the surprising convergence, in at least one respect, of the proposals of two such… More
Interests and passions
– Glazer, Nathan. "Interests and passions." The Public Interest 81 (1985): 17-30.Excerpt: The Public Interestwas launched under the sign of the interests; it now operates in an environment in which the passions are dominant. By “interests” I mean of course… 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 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
How social problems are born
– Glazer, Nathan. "How social problems are born." The Public Interest, 1994.Excerpt: How do we get more attention, more public action, for a problem we consider important? More important, how do we get the right kind of public attention and action, right in scale,… More
Black and white after thirty years
– Glazer, Nathan. "Black and white after thirty years." The Public Interest 121 (1995): 61-79.Excerpt: There is nothing that concentrates the mind on an issue more sharply than discovering one has been wrong about it. Twenty years ago, in an article in The Public Interest, I dealt… More
We Are All Multiculturalists Now
– Glazer, Nathan. We Are All Multiculturalists Now. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.Glazer explores the changes in American society, arguing that the “melting pot” and assimilation have been discarded in favor of multiculturalism. He highlights what this change means… More
Is Affirmative Action on Its Way Out? Should It Be?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Is Affirmative Action on Its Way Out? Should It Be?" Commentary (1998).Excerpt: For the past several decades, public and private institutions in the United States have operated under a system according to which designated minority groups receive special… More
In Defense of Preference
–
Glazer, Nathan. "In Defense of Preference." The New Republic, April 6, 1998.
Excerpt: The battle over affirmative action today is a contest between a clear principle on the one hand and a clear reality on the other. The principle is that ability, qualifications, and… More
The case for racial preferences
– Glazer, Nathan. "The case for racial preferences." The Public Interest 135 (1999): 45-63.Excerpt: It rarely happens that answers to contested political questions can be found in a relevant body of data and empirical analysis. Certainly, a scarcity of data has long afflicted the… 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
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
Cautionary Tale
– Glazer, Nathan. "Cautionary Tale." Review of Schoolhouse of Cards by Eugene Hickok and Collision Course by Paul Manna, Education Next, Fall 2011.Excerpt: Whatever Possessed the President? was the unlikely title of Robert C. Wood’s memoir of urban policy during the 1960s. The same thought springs to mind in reading these two books… 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
Commentary
The Study of Man
– "The Study of Man." Commentary, November, 1945.Excerpt: Social scientists can no longer be reproached for busying themselves with theoretical issues while ignoring the major problems confronting mankind. The ivory towers now stand… More
The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation
– "The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation." Commentary, July, 1946.Excerpt: Everyone within reach of a radio loudspeaker or a newspaper headline knows of the tremendous advances made by science during the war: atomic bombs, radiocontrolled planes, rockets… More
The Study of Man: The Alienation of Modern Man
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: The Alienation of Modern Man." Commentary, 1947.Excerpt: If, as Sidney Hook wrote recently, the two great semantic beacons of our time are the terms “transition” and “crisis,” then a third term is perhaps necessary to capture the… More
‘Science is a Sacred Cow’ by Anthony Standen Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "'Science is a Sacred Cow' by Anthony Standen Reviewed." Review of Science is a Sacred Cow, by Anthony Standen, Commentary, August, 1950.Excerpt: From a distance, science looks as a whole like the secure, foolproof, intelligent, and eminently successful enterprise that it is only in part. Up close one discovers that the… More
The Troubled Air, by Irwin Shaw Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Troubled Air," Commentary, April, 1950.Excerpt: One by one, our young novelists are moving from considerations of war and its aftermath to considerations of politics. Irwin Shaw has selected a narrower canvas than Norman Mailer,… More
The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell
– Glazer, Nathan. "Review of The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell," Commentary, July, 1952.Excerpt: Samuel Lubell’s The Future of American Politics is, in this reviewer’s opinion, the best book yet written on American politics of the last twenty years; and if a better… More
The Good Society
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Good Society." Commentary, September, 1963.Excerpt: It used to be—it seems to have been so even yesterday—that people with a reforming bent of mind knew, or thought they knew, what they meant by the “good society,” and they… More
On Task Forcing
– Glazer, Nathan. "On task forcing." The Public Interest, 1969.Excerpt: The presidential-transition task force has had a short history of only eight years. We have it on the authority of a very high figure in the present administration that the… More
The Limits of Social Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Limits of Social Policy." Commentary, September, 1971.Excerpt: There is a general sense that we face a crisis in social policy, and in almost all its branches. Whether this crisis derives from the backwardness of the United States in social… More
Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy. New York: Basic Books, 1975.In Glazer’s work Affirmative Discrimination, he argues against Affirmative Action. He evaluates the government’s use of public policy in regards to housing, employment, and… 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
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
Should Judges Administer Social Services?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Should judges administer social services?" The Public Interest, 1978.Excerpt: What role should the judiciary play in overseeing, correcting, setting standards for, and directly administering social services? The question must be raised because, in recent… More
Black English and reluctant judges
– Glazer, Nathan. "Black English and reluctant judges." The Public Interest 62 (1981): 40-54.Excerpt: Perhaps the most common defense of the remarkable expansion of judicial control and supervision of state institutions-schools, prisons, mental hospitals, state schools for the… More
IQ on Trial
– Glazer, Nathan. "IQ on Trial." Commentary, 1981.Excerpt: We are all increasingly governed by judicial decisions. Decrees of the court tell state officials and employees, teachers and school administrators, staff and administrators of… More
Towards a self-service society?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Towards a self-service society?" The Public Interest, 1983.Excerpt: Perhaps nothing so clearly indicates the possible future shape of the welfare society than the surprising convergence, in at least one respect, of the proposals of two such… More
Interests and passions
– Glazer, Nathan. "Interests and passions." The Public Interest 81 (1985): 17-30.Excerpt: The Public Interestwas launched under the sign of the interests; it now operates in an environment in which the passions are dominant. By “interests” I mean of course… 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 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
How social problems are born
– Glazer, Nathan. "How social problems are born." The Public Interest, 1994.Excerpt: How do we get more attention, more public action, for a problem we consider important? More important, how do we get the right kind of public attention and action, right in scale,… More
Black and white after thirty years
– Glazer, Nathan. "Black and white after thirty years." The Public Interest 121 (1995): 61-79.Excerpt: There is nothing that concentrates the mind on an issue more sharply than discovering one has been wrong about it. Twenty years ago, in an article in The Public Interest, I dealt… More
We Are All Multiculturalists Now
– Glazer, Nathan. We Are All Multiculturalists Now. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.Glazer explores the changes in American society, arguing that the “melting pot” and assimilation have been discarded in favor of multiculturalism. He highlights what this change means… More
Is Affirmative Action on Its Way Out? Should It Be?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Is Affirmative Action on Its Way Out? Should It Be?" Commentary (1998).Excerpt: For the past several decades, public and private institutions in the United States have operated under a system according to which designated minority groups receive special… More
In Defense of Preference
–
Glazer, Nathan. "In Defense of Preference." The New Republic, April 6, 1998.
Excerpt: The battle over affirmative action today is a contest between a clear principle on the one hand and a clear reality on the other. The principle is that ability, qualifications, and… More
The case for racial preferences
– Glazer, Nathan. "The case for racial preferences." The Public Interest 135 (1999): 45-63.Excerpt: It rarely happens that answers to contested political questions can be found in a relevant body of data and empirical analysis. Certainly, a scarcity of data has long afflicted the… 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
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
Cautionary Tale
– Glazer, Nathan. "Cautionary Tale." Review of Schoolhouse of Cards by Eugene Hickok and Collision Course by Paul Manna, Education Next, Fall 2011.Excerpt: Whatever Possessed the President? was the unlikely title of Robert C. Wood’s memoir of urban policy during the 1960s. The same thought springs to mind in reading these two books… 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
Multimedia
The Study of Man
– "The Study of Man." Commentary, November, 1945.Excerpt: Social scientists can no longer be reproached for busying themselves with theoretical issues while ignoring the major problems confronting mankind. The ivory towers now stand… More
The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation
– "The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation." Commentary, July, 1946.Excerpt: Everyone within reach of a radio loudspeaker or a newspaper headline knows of the tremendous advances made by science during the war: atomic bombs, radiocontrolled planes, rockets… More
The Study of Man: The Alienation of Modern Man
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: The Alienation of Modern Man." Commentary, 1947.Excerpt: If, as Sidney Hook wrote recently, the two great semantic beacons of our time are the terms “transition” and “crisis,” then a third term is perhaps necessary to capture the… More
‘Science is a Sacred Cow’ by Anthony Standen Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "'Science is a Sacred Cow' by Anthony Standen Reviewed." Review of Science is a Sacred Cow, by Anthony Standen, Commentary, August, 1950.Excerpt: From a distance, science looks as a whole like the secure, foolproof, intelligent, and eminently successful enterprise that it is only in part. Up close one discovers that the… More
The Troubled Air, by Irwin Shaw Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Troubled Air," Commentary, April, 1950.Excerpt: One by one, our young novelists are moving from considerations of war and its aftermath to considerations of politics. Irwin Shaw has selected a narrower canvas than Norman Mailer,… More
The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell
– Glazer, Nathan. "Review of The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell," Commentary, July, 1952.Excerpt: Samuel Lubell’s The Future of American Politics is, in this reviewer’s opinion, the best book yet written on American politics of the last twenty years; and if a better… More
The Good Society
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Good Society." Commentary, September, 1963.Excerpt: It used to be—it seems to have been so even yesterday—that people with a reforming bent of mind knew, or thought they knew, what they meant by the “good society,” and they… More
On Task Forcing
– Glazer, Nathan. "On task forcing." The Public Interest, 1969.Excerpt: The presidential-transition task force has had a short history of only eight years. We have it on the authority of a very high figure in the present administration that the… More
The Limits of Social Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Limits of Social Policy." Commentary, September, 1971.Excerpt: There is a general sense that we face a crisis in social policy, and in almost all its branches. Whether this crisis derives from the backwardness of the United States in social… More
Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy. New York: Basic Books, 1975.In Glazer’s work Affirmative Discrimination, he argues against Affirmative Action. He evaluates the government’s use of public policy in regards to housing, employment, and… 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
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
Should Judges Administer Social Services?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Should judges administer social services?" The Public Interest, 1978.Excerpt: What role should the judiciary play in overseeing, correcting, setting standards for, and directly administering social services? The question must be raised because, in recent… More
Black English and reluctant judges
– Glazer, Nathan. "Black English and reluctant judges." The Public Interest 62 (1981): 40-54.Excerpt: Perhaps the most common defense of the remarkable expansion of judicial control and supervision of state institutions-schools, prisons, mental hospitals, state schools for the… More
IQ on Trial
– Glazer, Nathan. "IQ on Trial." Commentary, 1981.Excerpt: We are all increasingly governed by judicial decisions. Decrees of the court tell state officials and employees, teachers and school administrators, staff and administrators of… More
Towards a self-service society?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Towards a self-service society?" The Public Interest, 1983.Excerpt: Perhaps nothing so clearly indicates the possible future shape of the welfare society than the surprising convergence, in at least one respect, of the proposals of two such… More
Interests and passions
– Glazer, Nathan. "Interests and passions." The Public Interest 81 (1985): 17-30.Excerpt: The Public Interestwas launched under the sign of the interests; it now operates in an environment in which the passions are dominant. By “interests” I mean of course… 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 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
How social problems are born
– Glazer, Nathan. "How social problems are born." The Public Interest, 1994.Excerpt: How do we get more attention, more public action, for a problem we consider important? More important, how do we get the right kind of public attention and action, right in scale,… More
Black and white after thirty years
– Glazer, Nathan. "Black and white after thirty years." The Public Interest 121 (1995): 61-79.Excerpt: There is nothing that concentrates the mind on an issue more sharply than discovering one has been wrong about it. Twenty years ago, in an article in The Public Interest, I dealt… More
We Are All Multiculturalists Now
– Glazer, Nathan. We Are All Multiculturalists Now. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.Glazer explores the changes in American society, arguing that the “melting pot” and assimilation have been discarded in favor of multiculturalism. He highlights what this change means… More
Is Affirmative Action on Its Way Out? Should It Be?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Is Affirmative Action on Its Way Out? Should It Be?" Commentary (1998).Excerpt: For the past several decades, public and private institutions in the United States have operated under a system according to which designated minority groups receive special… More
In Defense of Preference
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Glazer, Nathan. "In Defense of Preference." The New Republic, April 6, 1998.
Excerpt: The battle over affirmative action today is a contest between a clear principle on the one hand and a clear reality on the other. The principle is that ability, qualifications, and… More
The case for racial preferences
– Glazer, Nathan. "The case for racial preferences." The Public Interest 135 (1999): 45-63.Excerpt: It rarely happens that answers to contested political questions can be found in a relevant body of data and empirical analysis. Certainly, a scarcity of data has long afflicted the… 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
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
Cautionary Tale
– Glazer, Nathan. "Cautionary Tale." Review of Schoolhouse of Cards by Eugene Hickok and Collision Course by Paul Manna, Education Next, Fall 2011.Excerpt: Whatever Possessed the President? was the unlikely title of Robert C. Wood’s memoir of urban policy during the 1960s. The same thought springs to mind in reading these two books… 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
Teaching
The Study of Man
– "The Study of Man." Commentary, November, 1945.Excerpt: Social scientists can no longer be reproached for busying themselves with theoretical issues while ignoring the major problems confronting mankind. The ivory towers now stand… More
The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation
– "The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation." Commentary, July, 1946.Excerpt: Everyone within reach of a radio loudspeaker or a newspaper headline knows of the tremendous advances made by science during the war: atomic bombs, radiocontrolled planes, rockets… More
The Study of Man: The Alienation of Modern Man
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: The Alienation of Modern Man." Commentary, 1947.Excerpt: If, as Sidney Hook wrote recently, the two great semantic beacons of our time are the terms “transition” and “crisis,” then a third term is perhaps necessary to capture the… More
‘Science is a Sacred Cow’ by Anthony Standen Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "'Science is a Sacred Cow' by Anthony Standen Reviewed." Review of Science is a Sacred Cow, by Anthony Standen, Commentary, August, 1950.Excerpt: From a distance, science looks as a whole like the secure, foolproof, intelligent, and eminently successful enterprise that it is only in part. Up close one discovers that the… More
The Troubled Air, by Irwin Shaw Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Troubled Air," Commentary, April, 1950.Excerpt: One by one, our young novelists are moving from considerations of war and its aftermath to considerations of politics. Irwin Shaw has selected a narrower canvas than Norman Mailer,… More
The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell
– Glazer, Nathan. "Review of The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell," Commentary, July, 1952.Excerpt: Samuel Lubell’s The Future of American Politics is, in this reviewer’s opinion, the best book yet written on American politics of the last twenty years; and if a better… More
The Good Society
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Good Society." Commentary, September, 1963.Excerpt: It used to be—it seems to have been so even yesterday—that people with a reforming bent of mind knew, or thought they knew, what they meant by the “good society,” and they… More
On Task Forcing
– Glazer, Nathan. "On task forcing." The Public Interest, 1969.Excerpt: The presidential-transition task force has had a short history of only eight years. We have it on the authority of a very high figure in the present administration that the… More
The Limits of Social Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Limits of Social Policy." Commentary, September, 1971.Excerpt: There is a general sense that we face a crisis in social policy, and in almost all its branches. Whether this crisis derives from the backwardness of the United States in social… More
Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy. New York: Basic Books, 1975.In Glazer’s work Affirmative Discrimination, he argues against Affirmative Action. He evaluates the government’s use of public policy in regards to housing, employment, and… 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
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
Should Judges Administer Social Services?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Should judges administer social services?" The Public Interest, 1978.Excerpt: What role should the judiciary play in overseeing, correcting, setting standards for, and directly administering social services? The question must be raised because, in recent… More
Black English and reluctant judges
– Glazer, Nathan. "Black English and reluctant judges." The Public Interest 62 (1981): 40-54.Excerpt: Perhaps the most common defense of the remarkable expansion of judicial control and supervision of state institutions-schools, prisons, mental hospitals, state schools for the… More
IQ on Trial
– Glazer, Nathan. "IQ on Trial." Commentary, 1981.Excerpt: We are all increasingly governed by judicial decisions. Decrees of the court tell state officials and employees, teachers and school administrators, staff and administrators of… More
Towards a self-service society?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Towards a self-service society?" The Public Interest, 1983.Excerpt: Perhaps nothing so clearly indicates the possible future shape of the welfare society than the surprising convergence, in at least one respect, of the proposals of two such… More
Interests and passions
– Glazer, Nathan. "Interests and passions." The Public Interest 81 (1985): 17-30.Excerpt: The Public Interestwas launched under the sign of the interests; it now operates in an environment in which the passions are dominant. By “interests” I mean of course… 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 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
How social problems are born
– Glazer, Nathan. "How social problems are born." The Public Interest, 1994.Excerpt: How do we get more attention, more public action, for a problem we consider important? More important, how do we get the right kind of public attention and action, right in scale,… More
Black and white after thirty years
– Glazer, Nathan. "Black and white after thirty years." The Public Interest 121 (1995): 61-79.Excerpt: There is nothing that concentrates the mind on an issue more sharply than discovering one has been wrong about it. Twenty years ago, in an article in The Public Interest, I dealt… More
We Are All Multiculturalists Now
– Glazer, Nathan. We Are All Multiculturalists Now. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.Glazer explores the changes in American society, arguing that the “melting pot” and assimilation have been discarded in favor of multiculturalism. He highlights what this change means… More
Is Affirmative Action on Its Way Out? Should It Be?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Is Affirmative Action on Its Way Out? Should It Be?" Commentary (1998).Excerpt: For the past several decades, public and private institutions in the United States have operated under a system according to which designated minority groups receive special… More
In Defense of Preference
–
Glazer, Nathan. "In Defense of Preference." The New Republic, April 6, 1998.
Excerpt: The battle over affirmative action today is a contest between a clear principle on the one hand and a clear reality on the other. The principle is that ability, qualifications, and… More
The case for racial preferences
– Glazer, Nathan. "The case for racial preferences." The Public Interest 135 (1999): 45-63.Excerpt: It rarely happens that answers to contested political questions can be found in a relevant body of data and empirical analysis. Certainly, a scarcity of data has long afflicted the… 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
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
Cautionary Tale
– Glazer, Nathan. "Cautionary Tale." Review of Schoolhouse of Cards by Eugene Hickok and Collision Course by Paul Manna, Education Next, Fall 2011.Excerpt: Whatever Possessed the President? was the unlikely title of Robert C. Wood’s memoir of urban policy during the 1960s. The same thought springs to mind in reading these two books… 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