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 ...

In his new book, “The Struggle for a Decent Politics,” the political philosopher Michael Walzer grapples with a definition. By James Traub When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Walzer has recently updated his just war theory to take account of terrorism, humanitarian military intervention and new interpretations of ...