Experts
Michael Walzer
Professor Emeritus, The Institute for Advanced Study
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Michael Walzer: The Free Market and Morality
The Princeton professor answers the Big Question "Does the free market corrode moral character?" Read More
November 9, 2008 | In Belief, Science & Tech
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Michael Walzer discusses his "Essays on Political Criticism" Read More
November 6, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Michael Walzer reminds us that the hero of American capitalism was a complicated philosopher. Read More
November 6, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Michael Walzer on World’s Potential for Democracy
An optimist, Michael Walzer thinks every person can eventually embrace democracy. Read More
November 6, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Michael Walzer on Improving Education
Michael Walzer believes public education should be dominant in America. Read More
November 6, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Michael Walzer on Democracy Promotion
Michael Walzer thinks the U.S. should spread liberal democracy to other parts of the world—mostly, by example. Read More
November 6, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Michael Walzer: What is the common good?
Michael Walzer tells us why we should care. Read More
April 15, 2008 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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Michael Walzer: Which philosophers have passed the test of time?
John Rawls, among others. Read More
April 15, 2008 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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Michael Walzer: Philosophy in a Modern World
Michael Walzer on how philosophy should stay relevant. Read More
April 15, 2008 | In World
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Michael Walzer: Has scientific progress changed your understanding of morality?
Walzer says it hasn't. Read More
April 15, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Michael Walzer on Identity and Cultural Subjectivity
How does one judge other cultures? Read More
April 15, 2008 | In Belief
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Michael Walzer: Is there a clash of civilizations?
Putting the question thus essentializes cultures, Walzer says. Read More
April 15, 2008 | In World
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Michael Walzer: The Global Resurgence of Religious Alliances
The left was expecting mass secularization, Walzer says. Read More
April 15, 2008 | In Belief
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Michael Walzer on Just War and Humanitarian Intervention
Someone has to intervene in Darfur, Michael Walzer says; not necessarily the U.S. Read More
April 15, 2008 | In Truth & Justice
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Michael Walzer on Just War and Terrorism
Is terrorism ever justified? Read More
April 15, 2008 | In Truth & Justice
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Michael Walzer: U.S. Treatment of Enemy Combatants
President Bush, Walzer says, has created a new category of prisoner. Read More
April 15, 2008 | In Truth & Justice
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Michael Walzer on Just War, 9/11 and Afghanistan
Was 9/11 a declaration of war? Were we justified in invading Afghanistan? Walzer thinks we were. Read More
April 15, 2008 | In Truth & Justice
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Michael Walzer on Just War in Iraq
Should citizens feel guilty for not joining the army to end the Iraq war? Read More
April 15, 2008 | In Politics & Policy, World
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Michael Walzer on Just War in the Gulf War
Some of the troubles that we have had in Iraq after '03 come from the loss of confidence of trust that we produced by our behavior in '91, Walzer says. Read More
April 15, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Michael Walzer on Just War Theory
No government will send young men into battle to kill and be killed without offering some justification for what they are doing, Walzer says. Read More
April 15, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
Michael Walzer is one of America's leading political philosophers. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and editor of Dissent, a left-wing quarterly of politics and culture. He has written on a wide range of topics, including just and unjust wars, nationalism, ethnicity, economic justice, social criticism, radicalism, tolerance, and political obligation. He is also a contributing editor to The New Republic and a member of the editorial board of Philosophy & Public Affairs. To date he has written 27 books and has published over 300 articles, essays, and book reviews. He is a member of several philosophical organizations including the American Philosophical Society.
