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The Economist
February 8, 2018
“MORE than any other technical design or social institution,” wrote the late British historian, Tony Judt, “the railway stands for modernity.” But the road to modernity can be a bumpy one. So it was at the opening of the world's first steam passenger railway in 1830, when a dignitary in Liverpool was crushed byÃÂ ...
The American Interest
February 6, 2018
TY – I stopped reading at “As Tony Judt remarked…”, a post-modern alarm trigger. Might come back and slog through it so I understand the other comments better, but, I remain the reader of 'dead white men's history/biography PLUS geography'. Today, the UK announced a weapons deal with Turkey.
The Economist (blog)
February 6, 2018
The construction of the wall stabilised that solution to the German question; a moment, in the words of the historian Tony Judt, “when the great powers, whatever they said in public, heaved a private sigh of relief”. But later the wall fell, a reunited Germany was once more at the heart of Europe and theÃÂ ...
Pacific Northwest Inlander
February 1, 2018
I read Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder, and Jan Gross's powerful Neighbors. In Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, Snyder writes about a teenage girl marched to the edge of a killing pit; as the bullets whizzed by, she collapsed among the dead bodies. More people are shot; the bodies pile onÃÂ ...
Belfast Newsletter
January 25, 2018
He added: “The historian Tony Judt warns that our 'chief task is not to imagine better worlds but rather to think how to prevent worse ones'.” Vice-chair Dympna McGlade said: “The broad based 50th Anniversary Civil Rights Commemorations Committee will commemorate events in an inclusive andÃÂ ...
Jewish Chronicle
January 22, 2018
Hannah Arendt and Gerhard (later Gershom) Scholem were in the vanguard of distinguished German-born Jewish thinkers in what the late Tony Judt called the “republic of letters” of uprooted Europeans of the mid-20th century. Arendt flourished in New York, Scholem in Palestine. Yet Mittel Europa and itsÃÂ ...
Irish Times
January 18, 2018
My favourite historian Tony Judt writes in Ill Fares the Land (2010) that “there is something worse than idealizing the past-or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it”. Cilly's story is a small one from the war and its aftermath; nothing more and nothing less. What isÃÂ ...
The Week Magazine
January 10, 2018
As Tony Judt wrote over a decade ago, the idea of a particularly Jewish homeland is rooted in nationalist ideology from the late 19th and early 20th century. This ideology that has been progressively discredited since that time. The modern nation-state often retains some nationalist flavor, but the standardÃÂ ...
Bulatlat
January 2, 2018
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt. The memoirs of a public intellectual which he wrote while suffering from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Lucid thoughts, intelligent reflections, and neat overview of life in the West during the second half of the 20th century. 30. Lenin's imperialism in the 21st century,ÃÂ ...
Yeni Şafak English
January 1, 2018
It was clear that things would get to this point after Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The U.S.'s unconditional support for Israel is the biggest obstacle to peace. In an article he wrote in the New York Times in 2009, English historian Prof. Tony Judt, who is also of Jewish origin, said thatÃÂ ...
Mondoweiss
June 5, 2017
Tony Judt was an intellectual leader because of his brave use of his Jewishness to defend anti-Zionists in the discourse and champion a single democratic state in Israel and Palestine back in 2003. Two years after Judt's death in 2010, Timothy Snyder published a book of his dialogues with Judt onÃÂ ...
The Guardian
October 28, 2015
The title, as you may know, comes from John Maynard Keynes, and continues: “I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” This can be irritating when used by people who presume the high moral position but have not actually changed their minds. There are one or two big things, however, that the historianÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 16, 2015
“The arc is down,” is how Jennifer Homans, the widow of Tony Judt and an eminent dance critic and historian, describes the age of cruel disappointment that followed the end of the Cold War. It was the era in which her husband was condemned to live out his last two decades before his untimely death atÃÂ ...
Turkey Telegraph
December 31, 1999
The late Tony Judt understood as few complex legacy that left implosion of communism in Eastern Europe and was right to see that those countries subjected to tyranny would have serious difficulties in adopting basic principles of liberal democracy. More and more voices are pointing in Brussels that EUÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
But by 2005, the historian Tony Judt had spotted important differences between Europe and America that, he believed, pointed to a growing rift. “The presumptively 'un-American' values of Europe,” he wrote in his book Postwar, became “the highest common factor in European self-identification”. EuropeanÃÂ ...
Open Democracy
December 8, 2017
As historian Tony Judt puts it in his essay Ill Fares the Land, “what we have been watching is the steady shift of public responsibility onto the private sector to no discernible collective advantage”, which caused, in turn, “an increased difficulty in comprehending what we have in common with others”. It followsÃÂ ...
Groundviews
November 18, 2017
Commenting on the meteoric rise of the xenophobic far right in France, historian Tony Judt warned that when the communities are destroyed by unjust economics, people start looking for “someone to blame and someone to follow.”[xiii] The failure of the moderate centre to understand the essential nexusÃÂ ...
Tablet Magazine
October 27, 2017
One example is the late Tony Judt, a powerful academic and frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books with a chair at NYU who ...
The Guardian
October 23, 2017
[Tony Judt's] Postwar, and the early pages of [Timothy Synder's Bloodlands], have revealed a truth to me: I am an atheist. (I have recently ...
Mondoweiss
October 8, 2017
Tony Judt said that Zionism was an anachronism 14 years ago, in the New York Review of Books, and he was promptly shouted down and his ...
Al-Monitor
October 7, 2017
“The one-state idea has been boosted over the years by academics such as Edward Said, Tony Judt, John Mearsheimer and Virginia Tilley, ...
Το Βήμα Online
September 30, 2017
Ιστορικός της μεταπολεμικής Ευρώπης, της Γαλλίας, των διανοουμένων και των ιδεών αλλά και δημόσιος διανοούμενος (public intellectual) ο .
The Intercept
September 24, 2017
Writing in 2010 the late intellectual Tony Judt reflected on the world of emerging instability and uncertainty being wrought by the financial crises ...
The Economist
July 27, 2017
Once they have consigned to memory the full wording of Article 7 of the EU treaty, they can turn to Tony Judt's “Europe: The Grand Illusion”.
Mondoweiss
June 5, 2017
Tony Judt was an intellectual leader because of his brave use of his Jewishness to defend anti-Zionists in the discourse and champion a single ...
The Guardian
October 28, 2015
There are one or two big things, however, that the historian Tony Judt changed his mind about, and in this superb collection of essays, which ...
The New Yorker
August 11, 2015
Five years ago, a Ukrainian graduate student in history, Mykola Balaban, came across Tony Judt's monumental “Postwar: A History of Europe ...
Boston Globe
February 7, 2015
Before his death, from ALS, in 2010, Tony Judt had become one of the preeminent historians of Europe of our time. His numerous works ...
New York Times
January 16, 2015
“The arc is down,” is how Jennifer Homans, the widow of Tony Judt and an eminent dance critic and historian, describes the age of cruel ...
New York Times
February 3, 2012
Tony Judt was known to many people as the public intellectual who aroused a firestorm of criticism for an article he wrote in The New York ...
New York Times
August 7, 2010
Tony Judt, the author of “Postwar,” a monumental history of Europe after World War II, and a public intellectual known for his sharply polemical ...
StopFake.org
September 5, 2017
What is so seductive about postmodern theory – as the historian Tony Judt put it – is precisely its 'insistence upon subverting not just oldÃÂ ...
DailyO
August 29, 2017
As Tony Judt has written, “It was not 'fascism' that Camus was aiming at – an easy target, after all, especially in 1947 – but dogma, conformity,ÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online
August 27, 2017
Among the few dissenters was Tony Judt, a New York University historian who died in 2010. Judt had opposed the Iraq War, when so manyÃÂ ...
Refinery29
August 21, 2017
... a kid's book for my goddaughter, to cookery, philosophy and all the great historical masterpieces by Tony Judt, Stuart Hall and Frantz Fanon.
Herald Scotland
August 6, 2017
As the historian Tony Judt observed, this was the idea that the Soviet Union was engaged in such a momentous quest that its “very ambition justified andÃÂ ...
The Economist
July 27, 2017
Once they have consigned to memory the full wording of Article 7 of the EU treaty, they can turn to Tony Judt's “Europe: The Grand Illusion”.
Mondoweiss
June 5, 2017
Tony Judt was an intellectual leader because of his brave use of his Jewishness to defend anti-Zionists in the discourse and champion a singleÃÂ ...
The Guardian
October 28, 2015
There are one or two big things, however, that the historian Tony Judt changed his mind about, and in this superb collection of essays, whichÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
August 11, 2015
Five years ago, a Ukrainian graduate student in history, Mykola Balaban, came across Tony Judt's monumental “Postwar: A History of EuropeÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 16, 2015
“The arc is down,” is how Jennifer Homans, the widow of Tony Judt and an eminent dance critic and historian, describes the age of cruelÃÂ ...
Daily Times
December 31, 1999
Writing about Israel, British historian Tony Judt had said, “ By the age of 58 a country - like a man - should have achieved a certain maturity.
De Groene Amsterdammer
March 1, 2017
Wat zijn, behalve stijl, de kenmerken van een goed verhaal? 'De geschiedenis is een verhaal, een verhaal heeft een verteller nodig, en die verteller moet ergens staan', schreef wijlen historicus Tony Judt over de kenmerken van goede geschiedschrijving.
LifeHacker India
March 1, 2017
The filmmaker who is currently reading some books on history, The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan and Postwar by Tony Judt, says he still believes in old school of functioning.
lareviewofbooks
March 1, 2017
IN HIS FINAL YEARS, the late historian Tony Judt spilled much ink lamenting the decline of Western social democracy. In a series of articles and talks that culminated in his final book Ill Fares the Land (2010), he argued that in an age of marketÃÂ ...
Payvand
February 17, 2017
Somewhere in Thinking the Twentieth Century (2009), a book, which is based on a series of conversations between the historians Tony Judt (1948-2010) and Timothy Snyder, Judt says-and I'm paraphrasing-Intellectuals around the world share a commonÃÂ ...
Social Europe
February 10, 2017
As the historian Tony Judt noted in Postwar, the Marshall plan had economic consequences but the crisis it averted was political.
lareviewofbooks
February 10, 2017
Hazareesingh's book stands alongside such classic works as Herbert R. Lottman's The Left Bank and Tony Judt's Past Imperfect as a reminder of the fact that, regardless of how maddening and paradoxical French politics and intellectual life can be, we ...
Lankaweb
February 8, 2017
The Historian Tony Judt illustrates the post-war period as the interval immediately following the ending of a war. Post-war period marks the cessation of conflict entirely.
Chicago Tonight | WTTW
January 26, 2017
As the late historian Tony Judt observed, "Impossible to remember as it really was [the Holocaust] is inherently vulnerable to being remembered as it wasn't.
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