Word: walzer
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After reading pro-war statements by two authors whom I respect--Michael Walzer's in The New Republic and Joshua Sharfstein's in The Crimson ["Protestors Mistake Iraq for Vietnam," Jan. 23]--I have decided to join the anti-war movement. Weak as many arguments against the a may be, the liberal support is just as myopic but far more destructive...
...things. If the war frees Kuwait, destroys the Iraqi military threat and chastens or kills Hussein, it will have done some good things. But these positive results will not justify the war. Although I am wary to criticize a smart man who wrote a big book on the subject, walzer's use of the term "just war" is strikingly ambiguous and only begs the important questions...
...University philosophy instructor. He didn't publish until he was 41 (he is now 58). "All that time I was just thinking," says Hartman -- which was just as well. His books and monographs are models of clarity. He writes "like Jacob wrestling with the angel," says the philosopher Michael Walzer. "He holds that experience no less than tradition can be a valid source of theological inspiration and that one need not be religious to be ethical...
...scholars who founded this program--amongst them Stanley Hoffmann, Barrington Moore and Michael Walzer--have achieved their stature in this way; they were and are no fools. The work they do and which is now done in Social Studies is not being done by the Sociology Department in any way at all-my British reserves of irony are woefully insufficient to handle such a fantasy...
...insults Davis hurls at Social Studies concentrators and their teachers, they show more capacity for indignation than for judgement. This "leftist" or "Marxist" program has had, as consecutive chairs, such dangerous radicals as myself, Michael Walzer, and Coolidge Professor of History David S. Landes...