Internationalism
One of the questions that we posed for the forum on intellectuals and their America in this issue has preoccupied me for many years, and I will seize this occasion to respond (other editors may also join the conversation on …
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“There Is No Simple Formula”: Obama’s Nobel Speech and Just War Theory
M. Walzer: Obama’s Nobel Speech and Just War Theory
Is Obama’s War in Afghanistan Just?
M. Walzer: Is Obama’s War in Afghanistan Just?
Why Are Jews Liberal? (An Alternative to Norman Podhoretz)
Michael Walzer: The Real Reason Jews Are Liberals
Editor’s Page 
Quarterlies are often late to cover the politics of the moment, but sometimes we anticipate arguments to come. We carried important articles on torture in the Summer 2003 issue, and we have come back to it again and again in …
Confronting Iran
Michael Walzer: How We Should Confront Iran
Does the Internet Change Politics?
Does the Web Change Politics? Michael Walzer Responds
Editor’s Page
The slow pace of argument in quarterly magazines, the lag between the latest political news and our commentary on it, is sometimes a disadvantage, but not always. This spring it protects us against the sin of early disillusionment. President Barack …
Is the Two-State Solution Viable after Gaza?
M. Walzer: The Two-State Solution After Gaza
The Gaza War and Proportionality
M. Walzer on the Gaza War and Proportionality
What Is “The Good Society”?
Preliminary Dialogue: The co-editor of Dissent argues with a philosophical friend to determine the truth (or a truth) of the matter. MW: The definite article is wrong. How could there be one good society, given the immense variety of human …
The First 100 Days: What Ought to be Done Right Away?
The First 100 Days: Michael Walzer
The Day After: Beginning Again
Day After: M. Walzer – Beginning Again
Ten Foreign Policy Changes if Obama is Elected
Walzer: Obama’s Foreign Policy
Editor’s Page
The 2008 Democratic primary campaign was an extraordinary political event—actually, given the length of our election process, a long series of events—which both energized and divided the most important constituencies of the American liberal-left. We don’t know how the energy …
