Before all the talk about “public intellectuals,” Michael Walzer was one. For 50 years, he has gone back and forth between positions at Princeton and Harvard Universities and then at the Institute for ...

Noted political theorist Michael Walzer ’56 returned to Brandeis on Nov. 2 to present a lecture that argued in favor of states accommodating all communities within their borders. The talk before a ...

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If there is such a thing as the American conscience, one of its most important custodians is Michael Walzer. His book "Just and Unjust Wars" (a third edition of which was published in 2000) turns up ...