Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science, writes about American leftists and U.S. foreign policy:

First and foremost, the left needs to think seriously about the use of force, which is the central issue in foreign-policy...

Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science, joins Marty Moss-Coane of WHYY in a discussion of the American left's approach to foreign policy and his latest book A Foreign Policy for the Left (Yale University Press, January...

Current enthusiasm towards Israel is largely driven by the defence sector, business groups, and policy think-tanks. One of the dominant arguments is that India can benefit a lot in areas such as defense, agriculture, trade, technology-driven...

Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science, reviews On Betrayal (Harvard University Press, 2017) by Avishai Margalit, former Professor in the School of Historical Studies. Of the book, Walzer writes, "Betrayal is the breaking...

Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science and emeritus editor of Dissent, builds upon his article "The Idea of Resistance," published by the magazine in 1960.

Resistance is a very old form of political action—much older than...

Solidarity with comrades abroad is the oldest definition of left internationalism. We look for people who are fighting for equality, democracy, and freedom anywhere in the world, and we join their fight. Think of this as the foreign policy of the...

Professor Emeritus Michael Walzer has been elected to the British Academy as a Corresponding Fellow. The British Academy is a fellowship of around 1,300 leading academics in the humanities and social sciences.