Blogs about: Tony Judt
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Thinking the Twentieth Century
Yale historian Timothy Snyder discusses his remarkable collaboration with Tony Judt on Christopher Lydon’s excellent Radio Open Source. The result of Snyder’s extended interviews with Judt… more →
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A different history -- Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Tony Judt
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wrote 5 days ago: Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt Edition: Paperback Price: $16.29 Reading PostWa … more →
Debating Government Surveillance
wrote 5 days ago: Recently, we learned that our government is engaged in secret data mining, telephone metadata colle … more →
Social Democracy: Political Movement from Personal Fulfillment
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Why is there no real political Left in the United States? What is necessary for a major democratic-s … more →
Why Did the Holocaust Happen?
wrote 1 month ago: In the inaugural René Girard Lecture, Timothy Snyder presents his latest research, placing the Holoc … more →
Estados Desunidos da Europa
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wrote 2 months ago: (foto de Cristiano Mascaro) Nos últimos dias temos acompanhado, algo incrédulos, a intervenção europ … more →
1914, 1939, 1964, 1989, 2014 … war and generational change
wrote 2 months ago: All these dates are important – aren’t they? – bar one. Two world wars started, and one – 1989, the … more →
Normalien
wrote 2 months ago: Student at France’s elite école normale supérieure, one of the grandes écoles outside the normal pub … more →
Happy St Patricks Day and may the road rise with you...
wrote 3 months ago: Nora Connolly © Image Oxyman They died in their hundreds with no sign to mark where save the brass … more →
The Middle-East Peace Process that Is Not or Never Was
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wrote 3 months ago: In an article published today in The New Republic, Ben Birnbaum warns that the prospects for a two-s … more →
Adevărul (187) UE=EU
wrote 3 months ago: Deşi în drum spre America de Sud, urmăresc direct interesat cum soarta Uniunii Europene se joacă, to … more →
The Football Man: Willie Toms, 1910-1983
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wrote 3 months ago: History for me is a deeply personal business – my profession, but also my passion. I couldn … more →
Fair and balanced...
wrote 4 months ago: Following Eric Hobsbawm’s death, I emphasized a text by Tony Judt where the late historian/pub … more →
Thinking the twentieth century
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wrote 4 months ago: One of the best books I read in 2012 was Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt and Timothy Sny … more →
Art and Illness Symposium: What does illness feel like?
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wrote 5 months ago: For the vast majority of us, illness is where life and death meet. It’s a guarantee that even if we … more →
My Favorite Books from 2012
wrote 6 months ago: In 2012, I began writing book reviews for Bookreporter.com. What made the privilege of being able to … more →
The Writer's Diet: Making My Way Through the Dissertation Labyrinth and Thoughts on Writing in Graduate Education
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wrote 6 months ago: It’s the first of December, which means that your humble narrator has a mere three weeks remai … more →
Links of the Week
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wrote 7 months ago: Many of these links have been tweeted in the past, but here I can tag and categorise them for future … more →
Fascists like Bananas, too!
wrote 8 months ago: And Voting without a Voice I love autumn. It’s my favorite season. The turning of the leaves, … more →
Thoughts on the EU's Nobel Peace Prize
wrote 8 months ago: Last week, the European Union was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This came as a bit of a surprise to … more →
