9/21/11. 88 year old Professor Glazer has witnessed the gaps beween the intentions and consequences of American social policy.
“Against the view that to every problem there is a solution, I came to believe that we can have only partial and less than wholly satisfying answers to the social problems in question. Whereas the prevailing wisdom was that social policies would make steady progress in nibbling away at the agenda of problems set by the forces of industrialization and urbanization, I came to believe that although social policy had ameliorated some of the problems we had inherited, it had also given rise to other problems no less grave in their effect on human happiness.”
http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_3_nathan-glazer.html
“Against the view that to every problem there is a solution, I came to believe that we can have only partial and less than wholly satisfying answers to the social problems in question. Whereas the prevailing wisdom was that social policies would make steady progress in nibbling away at the agenda of problems set by the forces of industrialization and urbanization, I came to believe that although social policy had ameliorated some of the problems we had inherited, it had also given rise to other problems no less grave in their effect on human happiness.”
http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_3_nathan-glazer.html
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I believe that the biggest issue facing the united states is the growing inequality between the haves and the have nots
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