Conservative scholar and urban sociologist Nathan Glazer dies at 95

Nathan Glazer, a leading intellectual and prolific author on ethnic identity, civic participation, and a range of other topics, has died at 95.

Glazer died at his Cambridge, Mass., home on Saturday, the Associated Press reported. Glazer was among the last surviving members of a loose-knit group of public intellectuals, professors, and writers whose political orientations began on the Left during the mid-20th century and steadily moved rightward during the upheavals of the 1960s and beyond. They were widely known as “neoconservatives,” though Glazer resisted the term.