Nathan Glazer on Race and Ethnicity: Youthful Optimism and Mature Revisions.

Nathan Glazer was an intellectual and loved debating ideas and thinking about social issues. While he had retired before I joined the Harvard faculty in 1986, I got to know him over the years because he stayed very active well into his nineties. I often disagreed with him, but I very much liked him as a person. He was kind and had a good sense of humor. He would often meet with undergraduate and graduate students and wouldagree to be part of debates about issues like affirmative action.