Michael Walzer is a professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study and was co-editor of Dissent for over three decades. He is the author of Just and Unjust Wars.
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OCT 5, 2016 • Podcast
How to Achieve Military Victory and Maintain National and Personal Ethics
Moshe Yaalon: "Military excellence has handed us an advantage on the battlefield, but this edge can only be maintained if we preserve our ethical superiority. ...
APR 13, 2015 • Podcast
The Paradox of Liberation
Many of the successful campaigns for national liberation after World War II were based on democratic and secular ideals. Michael Walzer asks: What went wrong? ...
FEB 28, 2006 • Podcast
Arguing About War (2006)
For the first time since his classic "Just and Unjust Wars" was published in 1977, Professor Michael Walzer has again collected his most provocative arguments about ...
OCT 13, 2004 • Podcast
Arguing About War (2004)
Walzer rejects the argument that the invasion of Iraq was justified: "It is only massacre or ethnic cleansing or mass enslavement in progress that justifies ...
OCT 13, 2004 • Podcast
Arguing About War (2004)
Walzer rejects the argument that the invasion of Iraq was justified: "It is only massacre or ethnic cleansing or mass enslavement in progress that justifies ...
OCT 13, 2004 • Podcast
Arguing About War (2004)
Walzer rejects the argument that the invasion of Iraq was justified: "It is only massacre or ethnic cleansing or mass enslavement in progress that justifies ...
OCT 13, 2004 • Transcript
Arguing About War (2004)
Walzer rejects the argument that the invasion of Iraq was justified: "It is only massacre or ethnic cleansing or mass enslavement in progress that justifies ...
OCT 16, 2002 • Transcript
The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention
Humanitarian intervention does not "belong in the shadows" because it has the moral urgency of self-defense, which puts it ahead of preventive war, say Walzer ...
MAY 15, 2001 • Article
Morgenthau Lecture: Universalism and Jewish Values
Though they lacked any state or territory of their own, Jews nevertheless created a distinctive political philosophy, says Michael Walzer.
MAY 15, 2001 • Transcript
Universalism and Jewish Values
Though they lacked any state or territory of their own, Jews nevertheless created a distinctive political philosophy, one that deserves systematic scholarly attention.