A noted public intellectual and author, Michael Walzer (b. 1935) was educated at Brandeis University, Cambridge, and Harvard. He is co-editor of Dissent magazine and has written twenty-seven books, including Just and Unjust Wars (1977), On Toleration (1997), and Arguing About War (2004). He has 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 philosophical and political science journals. He currently serves as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.