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Review: Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century

ryancberg wrote 1 year ago: After publishing Postwar in 2005, a tour de force of European history since World War II, winning th … more →

Tags: Reviews, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Arthur Ross Book Award, communism, Czeslaw Milosz, david brooks, Eastern Europe, Eric Hobsbawm

Tony Rudt: A brilliant mind in a great collection of essays

bobbygw wrote 1 year ago: Absolutely terrific. This collection of amazing political essays will provoke, stimulate and engage … more →

Tags: Biography, Politics, Women's rights, 20th Century Politics, Eric Hobsbawm, Hannah Arendt, Israel, Leszek Kolowkowski, political essays 20th century

Tony Judt: A passionate historian remembered1 comment

thelittlereview wrote 2 years ago: By Niamh Cullen We think we have learned from enough from the past to know many of the old answers d … more →

Tags: In The News, History, Books, Tony Judt, Postwar, Ill fares the land

Memorials For Tony Judt2 comments

Rob Prince wrote 2 years ago: I will write my own commentary on Tony Judt’s passing in the near future. Having previously re … more →

Tags: Israel, Developments, Tony Judt, post war, Ill fares the land, Historien britannique

tony judt; speaking increments and acts to “the young” in ‘ill fares the land’.2 comments

guy mannes-abbott wrote 3 years ago: Tony Judt’s Ill Fares the Land is the kind of passionate polemic that Britain no longer does. … more →

Tags: being the human, The Political, Palestine, 'israel the alternative', 'the ‘problem of evil’ in postwar europe', alfred russel wallace, ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Bartleby

The Shelby County reappraisal scheme and how to fight it.

Will Hicks wrote 4 years ago: This mornings Commercial Appeal has another story about the Shelby County reappraisal scheme. They d … more →

Tags: Commercial Real Estate, Residential Real Estate

New Taxes Taking A Bite

lobotero wrote 4 years ago: Jackson County supervisors, bombarded with calls from homeowners because property values and taxes w … more →

Tags: taxes, News, Mississippi, Property Taxes, land, Seniors

On Any Given Sunday...

petebyrne wrote 4 years ago:   Once again, I find my mind confused and unsettled. It’s a condition that seems to occur almost eve … more →

Tags: The Culture, Books, W. G. Sebald, Add new tag, New York Times, book review section, daniel gates, Philip Roth, 1959


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