Michael Walzer - Selected Articles

"Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands," Philosophy and Public Affairs 2 no. 2 (Winter 1973): 160-80.

"In Defense of Equality," Dissent 20 no. 4 (Fall 1973).

"A Theory of Revolution," Marxist Perspectives, 2 no. 1 (Spring 1979): 30-44.

"The Moral Standing of States," Philosophy and Public Affairs 9 no. 3 (Spring 1980): 209-29.

"The Political Theory of Ethnic Pluralism," in Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1980), pp. 781-87.

"Philosophy and Democracy," Political Theory 9 no. 3 (August 1981): 379-399.

"On Failed Totalitarianism," in 1984 Revisited (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), pp. 103-21.

"Liberalism and the Art of Separation," Political Theory 12 no. 3 (August 1984): 315-30.

“Introduction” to Isaiah Berlin’s The Hedgehog and the Fox (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1986).

"A Critique of Philosophical Conversation," Hermeneutics and Critical Theory in Ethics and Politics, ed. Michael Kelly, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989), pp. 182-96.    

"The Communitarian Critique of Liberalism," Political Theory 18 no. 1 (February 1990): 6-23.

"The Idea of Civil Society," Dissent 39 (Spring 1991): 293-304.

"Objectivity and Social Meaning," in The Quality of Life (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), pp. 165-77.

"Preface" to Jean-Paul Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew, (New York: Schocken Books, 1995), pp. v-xxvi.

“On Negative Politics,” in Liberalism without Illusions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), pp. 17-24.

“War and Peace in the Jewish Tradition,” in The Ethics of War and Peace, ed. Terry Nardin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 95-114.

“Multiculturalism and the Politics of Interest,” in Insider/Outsider (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), pp. 88-98.

“International Society: What is the Best We Can Do?” in Ethical Perspectives 6 (1999): 3-4, p. 202 .

“The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers of Success),” Social Research 69 (2002): 925-44.

“Can There Be a Decent Left?” Dissent 49 no. 2 (Spring 2002): 19-23.

“The Four Wars of Israel/Palestine,” Dissent 49 no. 4 (Fall 2002): 26-33.

“What Rights for Illiberal Communities?”  In Forms of Justice: Critical Perspectives on David Miller’s Political Philosophy, edited by Daniel A. Bell and Avner de-Shalit (Lanham, MD:  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003), pp. 123-34.

“The Right Way,”  The New York Review of Books L4 (March 13, 2003):  4.

“What a Little War in Iraq Could Do,”  The New York Times (March 7, 2003):  A27.

“Regime Change and Just War.”  Dissent 53 no. 3 (Summer 2006): 103-08.

“Zionism and Judaism: The Paradox of National Liberation,” in The Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture, Guest Editor Nir Kedar 26, no. 2 (September 2007): 125-36.

“On Promoting Democracy,” in Ethics & International Affairs 22 no. 4 (Winter 2008): 351-5).

“Israel: Civilians & Combatants” with Avishai Margalit in The New York Review of Books 56  no. 8 (May 14, 2009).

“Which Socialism for the Future?” published in Italian as Quale socialismo per il future?  in Il futuro di Norberto Bobbio, Michelangelo Bovero, ed. (Editori Laterza, 2011).

“The Aftermath of War: Reflections on Jus Post Bellum,” in Ethics: Beyond War’s End, edited by Eric Patterson (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2012), pp. 35-46.

“The Political Theory License,” in Annual Review of Political Science, edited by Levi, Jackman, Rosenblum, (Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, 2013), 16: pp. 1-9.