Politics

Martin Peretz of the Wall Street Journal reviewed A Foreign Policy for the Left (Yale University Press, 2018) by Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science, writing:

"Mr. Walzer is an honest leftist, and he tries to keep his...

Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science, discusses the political potential of high school students as they take on the NRA following the February 14, 2018 shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School. Looking to the African...

Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science, details the intricacies of whistle-blowing, the moral risk-taking that is involved, and the contours of judging whether or not a disclosure is justified:

So long as there are secrets...

In the West, when non-white men are implicated in cases of sexual harassment and violence, the debate inevitably is much less about the nature of gender-based violence and its systemic presence in our societies, and much more about the "evidence"...

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...

Free speech makes no distinctions as to quality; academic freedom does. Are all opinions equally valid in a university classroom? Are professors being "ideological" when they refuse to accept the Bible as scientific evidence? What, then, becomes of...

“There is a longstanding commitment to the notion that the French do gender relations differently — especially from prudish Americans — and that has to do with the French understanding of seduction,” said Joan Scott, Professor Emerita in the School...

"At choral concerts, we expect to be soothed."

So said composer David Lang, the Institute's Artist-in-Residence, at a concert where his music promised nothing of the kind. This Pulitzer Prize winner was discussing his choral work National Anthems, an...

Artist-in-Residence David Lang discussed the power of political music and what makes it successful with Joshua Barone of the New York Times, saying, "It’s very hard to have a kind of music that changes someone’s mind without really noticing it. A...

Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science, discusses the threats to academic freedom that exist in the current political atmosphere with Bill Moyers, former White House Press Secretary, saying:

"The thing about education —...