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7mins
Dan Barber: The importance of fat and old-world breeding methods.
4mins
Barbers farm-based restaurant teaches eaters what theyre eating.
2mins
Barber overcompensated for his grandmothers bad cooking.
2mins
Barber’s grandmother had a farm where he learned the basics of tending the earth.
2mins
Michael Walzer tells us why we should care.
1mins
The major 20th century American philosopher was John Rawls, and he has had a very significant influence, although he is probably not a household name.
3mins
Philosophy needs to interact with the more ordinary moral conversation of humankind in order to stay relevant.
1mins
Walzer says it hasn’t.
5mins
How does one judge other cultures?
1mins
Putting the question thus essentializes cultures, Walzer says.
5mins
The left was expecting mass secularization, Walzer says.
1mins
Someone has to intervene in Darfur, Michael Walzer says; not necessarily the U.S.
3mins
President Bush, Walzer says, has created a new category of prisoner.
2mins
Was 9/11 a declaration of war? Were we justified in invading Afghanistan? Michael Walzer thinks we were.
8mins
Should citizens feel guilty for not joining the army to end the Iraq war?
2mins
Some of the troubles that we have had in Iraq after ’03 come from the loss of confidence of trust that we produced by our behavior in ’91, Walzer says.
4mins
No government will send young men into battle to kill and be killed without offering some justification for what they are doing, Walzer says.
2mins
No one, Walzer says, is talking honestly about Iraq.
1mins
Walzer is wary of McCain’s sudden turn to the right.