Michael Walzer

James D. Wolfensohn Professor Didier Fassin and past Distinguished Visiting Professor Axel Honneth (2018–19) are the editors of Crisis Under Critique: How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations.

Justice is Steady Work: A Conversation on Political Theory was published by Polity in December 2020 by Polity Books:

"Michael Walzer is one of the pre-eminent political theorists in the world today and also a prominent public intellectual. His...

Originally published in 1971, Political Action: A Practical Guide to Movement Politics by Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the Institute’s School of Social Science, was republished by New York Review of Books in 2019. The following is Walzer’s...

New York Review Books Classics has reprinted Political Action: A Practical Guide to Movement Politics by Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science. Originally published in 1971, the new edition features an introduction by...

If American citizens are good democrats, they will always be suspicious of government officials, and that will make them receptive to the information that whistleblowers provide. But they ought to be suspicious of whistleblowers, too. Citizens may...

Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science, has edited The Jewish Political Tradition: Volume III: Community.

The third in a four-volume series, Community includes chapters on the communal bond, marriage and family, welfare...

Yale University Press has published A Foreign Policy for the Left, by Michael Walzer, Professor in the School of Social Science. The book, adapted from essays published in Dissent, a political journal for which Walzer served as editor, asks how...

This book was written when I spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study. It is hard to imagine an environment that is more stimulating or more congenial to writing. Many colleagues at the Institute helped shape my thinking, but six deserve...

Let us imagine a conversation between a literary scholar from Palestine interested in the reception of Ibn Ruschd’s commentary on Aristotle, an anthropologist from Iraq examining the experience of exiles fleeing the war, an economist from the Ivory...

Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science, has authored The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions (Yale University Press), which asks the question "Why have secular democratic movements...