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...four openings are in American government, Chinese politics, Japanese politics, and political philosophy. The latter post was vacated when Michael Walzer, former professor of Government, left in the spring...
...Dean Epps, may the New Year finally end the pain Of late-delivered newspapers, and students who deal cocaine. The Yard is filled with our friends and their faces--But of Arnold C. Harberger there are very few traces. Where is Glen Bowersock? Where Frank Freidel? Where is Michael Walzer?--Princeton, north of hell. To Robert S. Brustein we pass the champagne New Haven's loss has been our dramatic gain. For Al Carnesale, alas! appointment came too late And nuclear power will march on to its fate. The year's been, well, preliminary for Robert Klitgaard--If he could...
...Town Meetings and Worker's Control." Walzer deceptively renews the time-honored social-contract tradition to state his theory justifying socialism in modern America. Just as an entrepreneur cannot own a city or stake claim to its political governance, neither should he be entitled to corporate ownership; economic enterprise, like political, involves human relations and cooperation that cannot be possessed by any group of individuals. His argument here is intriguing, but not really convincing, and a bit myopic. He conveniently ignores the emergence of a modern managerial class and bureaucratic power--although he devotes a great deal of attention...
...SURPRISING in light of the country's current political mood, Walzer seems unsure exactly how to make that state a practical reality. He vacillates in his essays between emphasis on revolution and on the extension of the current welfare state by the new class of technical specialists. He is also ambivalent toward the role of intellectuals like himself in creating the new society according to his principles. His wallowing exegesis on the failure of the intellectual Left to transform society during the past two decades sheds doubt on the efficacy of liberal ideas to influence the future...
...Walzer's two most fascinating articles, both written within the past couple of years, deal directly with this question. The first, a serious theoretical attempt to analyze the common features of revolutions in the modern world, emphasizes the subordination of intellectuals to doctrinaire ideologues. The other article asserts the durability of a class of sensitive thinkers--Shelley's "unacknowledged legislators of the world"--in the face of the challenge of unflinching mandarin elites. Walzer, thus, justifies his own commitment to radical principles as the ground work for his passive vision of a just society. But he does not completely abandon...