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Michael Walzer

Author

One of America’s foremost political thinkers, Michael Walzer has written about a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy, including political obligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity, economic justice, and the welfare state. Walzer’s books include Just and Unjust Wars (1977), Spheres of Justice (1983), On Toleration (1997), Arguing About War (2004), and The Paradox of Liberation (2015). He served as co-editor of the left-wing political journal Dissent for more than three decades, retiring in 2014. Walzer has been an important voice on the American left opposing the BDS movement and the demonization of Israel. An expert on Jewish political thought, Walzer is a co-editor of the book series The Jewish Political Tradition, the third volume of which was published in May 2018. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons.)