Discussing with Michael Walzer: What Happened to National Liberation?

A roundtable discussion on topics raised in Michael Walzer’s latest book, The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions.

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India, Israel, and Algeria are three nations whose founding principles and institutions are under attack from religious revivalists of different kinds, such as Hindu militants, ultra-Orthodox Jews, and Islamic radicals. Michael Walzer’s book The Paradox of Liberation offers a study for discussion on the roots of one of the contemporary world’s most serious problems. Walzer asks: Why have the secular democratic leadership of liberation movements been unable to permanently assert their political culture? Has that inability or mistake been a source of religious resurgence and its acute radicalization in several regions of the world?

Participants in the discussion include:

Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study
Mustafa Akyol, writer and journalist
Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University
Nader Hashemi, University of Denver
Jonathan Laurence, Boston College
Hanna Lerner, Tel Aviv University
Chair: Giancarlo Bosetti, Reset DoC

A reception will follow this event.  Free and open to all.

This event is sponsored by the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life and Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations.