Political theorist Michael Walzer, a student of Irving Howe’s and his successor as editor of Dissent, gave the first Irving Howe Memorial Lecture. He returns to commemorate the twentieth year of the series that has featured Frank Kermode, Anthony Grafton, Leon Wieseltier, and other critical luminaries. Walzer’s lecture “On Democratic Internationalism” looks back at the Democratic Review, a short-lived but historically important journal from the 1840s as it foreshadows later developments in American politics. Walzer is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study and was co-editor of Dissent for more than thirty years. His many books include Just and Unjust Wars, On Toleration, and most recently, The Paradox of Liberation.

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