{"id":1417,"date":"2023-05-28T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T13:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/28\/an-interview-with-michael-walzer\/"},"modified":"2023-05-28T13:18:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T13:18:56","slug":"an-interview-with-michael-walzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/28\/an-interview-with-michael-walzer\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Michael Walzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dissentmagazine.org\/online_articles\/liberal-commitments\">Liberal Commitments<\/a>.&#0160; Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Liberals are people who are best defined morally or psychologically; they\u2019re what Lauren Bacall, my favorite actress, called \u201cpeople who don\u2019t have small minds.\u201d A liberal is someone who\u2019s tolerant of ambiguity, who can join arguments that he doesn\u2019t have to win, who can live with people who disagree, who have different religions or different ideologies. That\u2019s a liberal.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Walzer is an old man living in the past, and what he says is true of the liberals of yesteryear. It has little or nothing to do with the &#39;liberals&#39; of the present day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Walzer is the author of an important post-9\/11 article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/sss\/pdfs\/Walzer\/CanThereBeDecent.pdf\">Can There be a Decent Left?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal Commitments.&#0160; Excerpt: Liberals are people who are best defined morally or psychologically; they\u2019re what Lauren Bacall, my favorite actress, called \u201cpeople who don\u2019t have small minds.\u201d A liberal is someone who\u2019s tolerant of ambiguity, who can join arguments that he doesn\u2019t have to win, who can live with people who disagree, who have different &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/28\/an-interview-with-michael-walzer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Interview with Michael Walzer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-and-political-philosophy","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}