Radical Principles

by Michael Walzer

In essays spanning more than fifteen years, Walzer debunks the pieties of both the neoconservatives and the New Left, arguing for equality, and for the radical transformation of capitalist society

130 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Michael Walzer is a Jewish American political philosopher and public intellectual. A professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, he is editor of the political-intellectual quarterly Dissent. He has written books and essays on a wide range of topics, including just and unjust wars, nationalism, ethnicity, economic justice, social criticism, radicalism, tolerance, and political obligation and is a contributing editor to The New Republic. To date, he has written 27 books and published over 300 articles, essays, and book reviews in Dissent, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and many scholarly journals