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... There is no Israel without the conquest of Canaan and the expulsion or inferior status of Canaanites—then as now. —Edward Said, “Exchange: Michael Walzer and Edward Said” It seems to Tyrone Slothrop that there might be a route back—maybe that anarchist he met in Zurich was right...

... of applause). The elites of the respec- 1. Michael Walzer makes a parallel between the Puritans, Jakobins, and Bolsheviks, three movements that tried to put consumption under ideological control and moralize capital- ism. See Michael Walzer, The Revolution of the Saints: A Study on the Origins...

... encounters without consent, like rape in The Fountainhead, provides an orgasmic experience of rejecting the social trust that lies at the heart of all agreements and accords. Even though consent fosters human connection Michael Walzer calls it a conveyance (1970: xi) between self and other it obligates us...

... of Justice. Empire for Liberty is much more a literary book, but Residues of Justice is more of a theory book, dealing with philosophy as well as law, and thinkers from Kant to Michael Walzer. How did you come to do that book? WCD: I was interested in law as something that had both an immediate...

... to overlook (or not mention) significant facts about the Puritan Revolution that would have emphasized its modernizations rather than its atavisms. As Michael Walzer has shown in The Revolution of the Saints, the Puritan’s idea of the good temporal order was, in many respects, modern in its move...

... of necessity begins . . . close to home and radiate[s] outward” (FLC, 80); Robert Pinsky, in the most literary contribution to the volume, claims, “The cosmopolitan is local, and it is historical” (FLC, 86); finally, the accident of alphabetization gives Michael Walzer the last word as he concludes...

... on the subject. This will take place in the second volume [of my next project], which I will call the libera- tion front against formulations such as Michael Walzer’s ‘‘spheres of justice I cannot use this metaphor of the little spheres, which implies a kind of non- critical communitarianism. I use instead...