In Praise of Nepotism by Adam Bellow by Nathan Glazer We are a society committed to the idea that an individual should make it on his own merits, without connection…
Is Affirmative Action on the Way Out? Should It Be? by Nathan Glazer For the past several decades, public and private institutions in the United States have operated under a system according to…
The National Prospect by Nathan Glazer To commemorate Commentary's fiftieth anniversary, the editors addressed the following statement and questions to a group of American intellectuals:
American Jews and Israel – A Symposium by Lionel Abel, Robert Alter, Daniel Bell, Eric M. Breindel, Joel Carmichael, Paul Cowan, Werner J. Dannhauser, Midge Decter, Maurice Friedberg, Murray Friedman, Nathan Glazer, Irving Greenberg, Ben Halpern, Mark Helprin, Milton Himmelfarb, Erich Isaac, Rael Isaac, H. J. Kaplan, Hilton Kramer, Edward N. Luttwak, Michael A. Meyer, Jacob Neusner, William Phillips, Daniel.Pipes, Richard Pipes, Dennis Prager, Earl Raab, Eugene V. Rostow, Jonathan D. Sarna, Peter Shaw, Seymour Siegel, David Singer, Max Singer, Steven L. Spiegel, Roger Starr and Marie Syrkin Never, perhaps, has criticism of the state of Israel by American Jews been so open, so widespread, and so bitter…
How Has the United States Met Its Major Challenges Since 1945? by Nathan Glazer Exactly forty years ago, in the first issue of COMMENTARY (November 1945), its found- ing editor, the
On Jewish Forebodings by Nathan Glazer STUDENTS of American Jewry confront an interesting paradox: a sociological literature filled with forebodings
The Rosenberg File, by Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton by Nathan Glazer Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton, in this superlative book, describe how their conviction that the Rosenbergs were innocent changed on…
The Day Is Short: An Autobiography, by Morris B. Abram by Nathan Glazer Morris Abram is a former president of Brandeis University, of the American Jewish Committee, and of the Field Foundation; a…
Ethnicity-North, South, West by Nathan Glazer Twelve years ago, Daniel P. Moynihan and I, reviewing the condition of politics in New York City for the second…
Javits: The Autobiography of a Public Man, by Jacob K. Javits by Nathan Glazer Jacob K. Javits served longer in the United States Senate than any other Senator from New York State. For someone…
IQ on Trial by Nathan Glazer We are all increasingly governed by judicial decisions. There is something to be learned by studying judicial decisions of large…
The Attack on the Professions by Nathan Glazer PROFESSIONALISM, professionalization, and the professions are increasingly central to any grasp of modern societies, yet persistently elude proper understanding. On…