Passion plea

MICHAEL WALZER is a liberal who has spent much of his career unsettling the opinions of other liberals. The political philosopher's enormously influential 1977 book ''Just and Unjust Wars,'' an effort to outline the demands and limits of morality in war, was read by many as a challenge to an American left that, in the wake of the Vietnam War, ... (Full article: 898 words)

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