The political theory license

Abstract

My purpose here is to argue that political theorists have a kind of professional permit to move back and forth between the academic and political worlds and to expound and defend particular political positions. I then describe my own engagements, political and theoretical, and the books and articles that have come out of them - about war, social justice, pluralism, social criticism, and nationalism (with Zionism the key example of the last of these). Copyright © 2013 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved.