Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer
Born	(1935-03-03) March 3, 1935 (age 81) New York
Alma mater	Brandeis University University of Cambridge Harvard University
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Main interests	Political philosophy  · Human rights  · Ethics · Just war theory  · Liberalism  · Value pluralism  · Social criticism  · Internationalism
Influences Isaiah Berlin, Charles Taylor, Albert Camus, Karl Marx, Niccolò Machiavelli
Influenced Michael J. Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Amy Gutmann, Michael W. Doyle

Michael Walzer (/ˈwɔːlzər/; March 3, 1935) is a prominent American political theorist and public intellectual. A professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, he is co-editor of Dissent, an intellectual magazine that he has been affiliated with since his years as an undergraduate at Brandeis University. He has written books and essays on a wide range of topics—many in political ethics—including just and unjust wars, nationalism, ethnicity, Zionism, economic justice, social criticism, radicalism, tolerance, and political obligation. He is also a contributing editor to The New Republic. To date, he has written 27 books and published over 300 articles, essays, and book reviews in Dissent, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harpers, and many philosophical and political science journals.