Nathan Glazer (1923–2019) was University Professor of Education and Sociology Emeritus at Harvard University, former co-editor of The Public Interest, and former Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. He was a founding member of the Board of Advisors for the Independent Institute as well as the Institute's quarterly journal, Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy.
His many books include The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (with David Riesman and Reuel Denney); Faces in the Crowd; Individual Studies in Character and Politics (with David Riesman); American Judaism; Studies in Housing & Minority Groups (with Davis McEntire); The Social Basis of American Communism; Negroes & Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism; The Many Faces of Anti-semitism; Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City (with Daniel P. Moynihan); Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy; Ethnicity: Theory and Experience (edited with Daniel P. Moynihan); Prejudice; Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982; The Limits of Social Policy; We Are All Multiculturalists Now; and From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City.
