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Michael Laban Walzer [a] (born March 3, 1935) is an American political theorist and public intellectual.
Apr 8, 2024 · A week after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, Michael Walzer told The Free Press that Israel’s war against Gaza was just, but he warned against the needless killing of noncombatants. “We do know what ought not to be done, and we just hope it is not done,” he said at the time.
Learn about Michael Walzer, a prominent political thinker and moral philosopher who has written on various topics, such as war, justice, and nationalism. He is a former editor of Dissent and a professor emeritus at IAS.
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Michael Walzer is a professor emeritus of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is a renowned scholar of political theory and moral philosophy, and the co-editor of Dissent magazine.
Feb 4, 2023 · In his new book, “The Struggle for a Decent Politics,” the political philosopher Michael Walzer grapples with a definition.
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In this episode I interview Michael Walzer, Emeritus Professor at the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, prolific aut...
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Feb 6, 2019 · John Yoo analyzes Michael Walzer's influential book on the laws of war, which defends the tradition of just war and applies it to historical cases. He praises Walzer's rejection of amoral realism and pacifism, but criticizes his liberal theory of individual rights and his rejection of utilitarianism.
