14629 ª February 9 4:42 AM. Enough Already With The Journalists – What Do The Finest Political Philosophers Think About Terrorism? There aren’t many of them. On the liberal side of things, apart from John Rawls, Michael Walzer [here’s a fascinating interview with him]is probably the most original and intelligent pluralist alive. In the above-linked article in Dissent he sets out the questions that we should be asking ourselves right now about terrorism. Something tells me we should be paying attention. But what would our answers be? Or are we too caught up with the banality of columnists and pundits to actually face up to the thoughts of a real political thinker? [MetaFilter]