Blogs about: Tony Judt

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Israel: Enfant terrible or solipsistic adolescent?

luckykiwi wrote 1 month ago: “It’ll be nice when Israel grows out of this phase…” cartoonist Tom Scott s … more →

Tags: Current Affairs, Israel, united states

Twilight of the Ex-Marxists

Matthijs Krul wrote 2 months ago: It seems that it is much better for the readability of one’s work as well as the sense of one … more →

Tags: Political Theory, Marxism, Eric Hobsbawm

Israel 61: The country that wouldn't grow up 5 comments

Dave wrote 2 months ago: As Zionists prepare to celebrate the 61 anniversary of the ethnic cleaning of Palestine, and declara … more →

Tags: Israel, Birthday, years

Playing Make-Believe is Fun

Dan Rozenson wrote 3 months ago: Jewish-British academic Tony Judt published an essay in 2003 that garnered some attention. Championi … more →

Tags: David Wolpe, hamas, hizballah, Iran, Israel, Roger Cohen

The making of modern myths

BobG in Vancouver wrote 9 months ago: Image via Wikipedia I am going to read this collection of essays by Tony Judt, who is a recognized … more →

Tags: about books, about death, Choices, History, thinking about politics, thinking about religion, 20th Century, Books and Literature, Spain

On A Rainy Afternoon, You Might See Forever

petebyrne wrote 9 months ago: It’s a rainy afternoon and my mind keeps going back to a couple of books I browsed yesterday … more →

Tags: The Culture, Books, barnes and noble, Derrick Jensen, endgame, Résistance, 1989, utopian ideals, messianic left

The Revival

cugrad wrote 11 months ago: Hello devoted readers (all zero of you!), Actually, I guess that’s not entirely true, apparent … more →

Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Martin Amis

Today's argument-starting essay excerpt

Paul Wells wrote 1 year ago: “…the United States today is the only advanced democracy where public figures glorify an … more →

Tags: Inkless Wells, War, united states, Europe

The Years the Locusts Ate

m.idrees wrote 1 year ago: John Gray reviews Tony Judt’s devastating critique of intellectual life over the past two deca … more →

Tags: Palestine, Literature, US Politics, middle east, War, John Gray

Is the Century of Horrors Over?

hysperia wrote 1 year ago: The twentieth century is thus on the path to becoming a moral memory palace: a pedagogically service … more →

Tags: Review, War, 20th Century, Horrors, genocide

Misspoke2 comments

ducksanddrakes wrote 1 year ago: Hendrik Hertzberg has a quick and dirty archeology of the word “misspoke” in The New Yor … more →

Tags: found phrases, Richard Nixon, hendrik hertzberg

Wars

eamonnmcdonagh wrote 1 year ago: After noting that the USA suffered comparatively few causalities in the great conflicts of the 20th … more →

Tags: Politics, France, The UK, History, The Philippines, Norman Geras, Spanish-American War, United States Civil War, World War I

To See With Only One Eye

eamonnmcdonagh wrote 1 year ago: What is striking about these arguments of Judt’s is their unqualified, their completely one-si … more →

Tags: Israel, Germany, History, Norman Geras, The Holocaust

Israel at 60: The country that wouldn't grow up

Dave wrote 1 year ago: Haaretz: By the age of 58 a country – like a man – should have achieved a certain matu … more →

Tags: Israel's 60th Birthday, Palestine, 1948, Nakba, Israel, anniversary, Israel@60, USA, Israel's 60th Anniversary

Tony Judt on Hannah Arendt's 'Eichmann in Jerusalem'

Sean Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: ‘… In one sense, … Arendt was of course correct [that the problem of evil will be … more →

Tags: Eichmann in Jerusalem, Europe, Evil, Hannah Arendt, Israel, post war, World War II


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