Arguing the World

"Dr. Glazer was one of the last survivors of a remarkable mid-century group, the New York Intellectuals. Its members were largely Jewish and, at least originally, almost exclusively on the left. Prizing argumentative brilliance, they excelled at hammer-and-tongs debate. The art critic Harold Rosenberg, a senior member, famously labeled the group 'a herd of independent minds.'"

Mark Feeney at The Boston Globe reports the death of Nathan Glazer.