A Conservative Critic of Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action: Ethnic Intensity and Public Policy, by Nathan Glazer. New York: Basic Books. 248 pp.

Nathan Glazer is troubled by what he thinks is affirmative action, even though he concedes that “eve have not quite reached the degraded condition of the Nuremberg laws.” Yet, on a deeper level, he fears what affirmative action could be, namely a spur to a change in the class structure. His arguments against affirmative action procedures are weak; his stronger ...