Articles and teaching sessions are devoted to social scandals like the increase in hunger, poverty, homelessness and illiteracy in the U.S. Likewise, issues surrounding U.S. foreign policy, aid and grotesque military appropriations are frequently critiqued on behalf of a foreseen new social order that will be founded on
liberationist principles.
But to recognize that precursor would have posed an awkward question for Walzer: Are the
liberationist project's flaws merely a matter of means and attitude, or are they also rooted in its conception of human nature, its
principles, and its goals?