13 Facts About Michael Walzer

Michael Laban Walzer was born on March 3,1935 and is an American political theorist and public intellectual.

Michael Walzer is a contributing editor to The New Republic.

Michael Walzer then studied at the University of Cambridge on a Fulbright Fellowship and completed his doctoral work at Harvard University, earning his Doctor of Philosophy degree in government under Samuel Beer in 1961.

Michael Walzer concludes by describing a "post-modern" view, in which cultures within an immigrant nation have blended and inter-married to the extent that toleration becomes an intra-familial affair.

Michael Walzer was first employed in 1962 in the politics department at Princeton University.

Michael Walzer stayed there until 1966, when he moved to the government department at Harvard.

Michael Walzer taught at Harvard until 1980, when he became a permanent faculty member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study.

In 1971, Michael Walzer taught a semester-long course at Harvard with Robert Nozick called "Capitalism and Socialism".

The course was a debate between the two philosophers: Nozick's side is delineated in Anarchy, State, and Utopia, and Michael Walzer's side is expressed in his Spheres of Justice, in which he argues for "complex equality".

Michael Walzer is a member of the editorial board of the Jewish Review of Books and an Advisory Editor at Fathom.

Michael Walzer has been honoured with an emeritus professorship at the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study.

Michael Walzer's grandchildren are Joseph and Katya Barrett and Jules and Stefan Walzer-Goldfeld.

Michael Walzer is the older brother of historian Judith Michael Walzer Leavitt.