Early on in the documentary, there's this amazing scene of Nathan Glazer going back to the projects

where he grew up himself, talking to an African American man and two or three of the children

in those projects.

And it's both very charming and lovely and also a little funny.

I used to live at 758, which was over there

near the school and that's torn down.

That's my school.

Is that your what school? What's the number that's what school?

P.S. 60?

Where is that?

Uh-huh, that's PS 60, okay.

Get there, but you would have been, we used to go to...

You get the sense that these people who grew up with almost nothing, but now are Harvard professors professors going back to where they grew up

and seeing the African Americans who they felt like why weren't they are better off

too again this is me editorializing but you can almost see the spark of some of this like, well, what's the difference here?

There must be something pathological in this culture that actually will be resistant to public

policy interventions.

That's ultimately the Neocon line.

I mean, part of what happens with the Neocon turn

amongst these particular Jews

with this particular academic training

in particular set of early experiences in New York City

...