Michael Walzer

3 weeks ago | dissentmagazine.org | Duncan Hosie |Joseph A. McCartin |Michael Walzer |Bill Fletcher Jr

The Degradation of Big Law By intimidating and disarming potential sources of legal resistance, Trump weakens one of the last institutional barriers standing between his administration and unbridled executive power.

Sep 30, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Michael Walzer |Akiva Schick |Adam Kirsch

W. W. Norton & Company 160 pp., $24.99 Irving Howe once told me that the purpose of a polemic is to kill your opponent—with words, not knives; still, at the end, the opponent should be politically, intellectually finished.

Sep 24, 2024 | dissentmagazine.org | Fred Block |Dustin Guastella |Mark Levinson |Michael Walzer

The Problem With a Job Guarantee Building working-class power through full employment is a worthy goal, but there are better strategies for creating and sustaining a tight labor market. ▪ Fall 2024 Read responses to this article by Dustin Guastella and Mark Levinson here. The time has come to abandon a political proposal that the left has advanced in Europe and the United States for almost 200 years: that the government should guarantee a job to everyone who is looking for work.

Jun 25, 2024 | fathomjournal.org | Alan Johnson |Calev Ben-Dor |Michael Walzer |Andrés Spokoiny

Andrés Spokoiny is the President and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network. There was a time, not long ago, when societies built their stories around heroes. Now, the victim has dislodged the hero as the center of society’s focus of admiration and desire. We dreamed of being heroes, now we yearn to be considered victims. Heroes and victims are very different. The hero sacrifices herself for the common good. She goes ‘out of herself’ and towards the other. The victim, however, withdraws into herself.

Jun 16, 2024 | quillette.com | Alex Byrne |Jonathan Kay |Michael Walzer |Kevin Mims

Andrea James is a filmmaker and trans activist. Two decades ago, James became well-known as one of the chief tormentors of psychologist Michael Bailey, who’d just published a book about feminine males and male-to-female transsexuals, The Man Who Would Be Queen. In that book, Bailey endorses the theory, originally proposed by American-Canadian sexologist Ray Blanchard, that transgender women typically fall into one of two categories.