Abolish the Petition Office
Michael Walzer: Abolish the Petition Office
Fall 2024
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What Keeps Us Going? 
What keeps us going? Max Weber’s famous definition of politics as “the slow grinding of hard wood” seems to apply especially to us, the men and women of the Left. For the powerful and the rich, and for the demagogues …
Argument: Michael Walzer Replies
Argument: M. Walzer Replies
What Do They Say at Summit Meetings?
Michael Walzer: What Do They Say at Summit Meetings?
Which Socialism?
In the not-so-distant past, when Norberto Bobbio, the Italian political theorist, first asked this question, it was (or so it looks today) relatively easy to answer. There were only two choices: the version of socialism that prevailed in what we …
Editor’s Page
Sometime this summer, if all goes well, the United States will disengage its combat troops from Iraq—and next summer from Afghanistan. In the Dissent/Penn Press book Getting Out, a number of our writers look at historical examples of imperial and …
The Need for Something Better
Michael Walzer: The Need for Something Better
The Birther Bill Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Michael Walzer: The Birth Certificate Bill Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Succession in Latin America and Poland
Michael Walzer: Succession Tests in Poland and Latin America
How Passover Could Cure Us of the Tea Party
Michael Walzer: How Passover Could Cure Us of the Tea Party
Meeting Ground
Michael Walzer on Where Heaven and Earth Meet
In Place of a Hero (Spring, 1960)
From the Archives: The Fiction of J.D. Salinger
Obama’s First Year: It Could Have Been Worse
M. Walzer: In Dreams Begins Responsibilities
Response by Michael Walzer
Jim Rule has written a wonderfully bracing but also a strangely high-minded critique of United States foreign policy. By “high-minded” I mean first of all abstracted from all the difficult decisions of past and present policy making. And I mean, …
Response by Michael Walzer
The rise of a genuinely left Confucianism in China would be a welcome development, but Dan Bell’s account of what this doctrine might look like, and how it is invoked by contemporary “new leftists,” leaves me unpersuaded that it could …
