Author: Michael Walzer
Alternate names: M. Walzer; Walzer Michael
Title: of Hadar Ramatayim
Born: 3 March 1935
Bio: Michael Laban Walzer (born on 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 editor emeritus 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.

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