Interpretation and Social Criticism

MICHAEL WALZER is many things — a political activist; an editor, along with Irving Howe, of Dissent magazine; a former professor at Harvard and Princeton universities, and now a member of the permanent faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Michael Walzer was born in New York City, attended Brandeis, Cambridge, and Harvard universities, and is the author of many books including Just and Unjust Wars, Radical Principles, Spheres of Justice, and Exodus and Revolution.