Reich to Judt: Get a Brain - CBS News.
In 1996, shortly before the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome which gave birth to the European Economic Community, the British historian Tony Judt published a widely discussed essay entitled.
Thinking Out Loud. An oral history of the twentieth century, dictated on his deathbed, shows that Tony Judt was, to the end, the consummate public intellectual.
Tony Judt is a well known historian, author, New York University professor, frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and person with ALS. We're pleased to re-publish Night, his most insightful and moving essay first published in January 2010 that captures the essence of the devastation of this disease in graphic detail.
Last night I read Tony Judt’s essay on Hannah Arendt (1), and it all became clear to me: They were all “chance survivors of a deluge,” as she put it in a 1947 dedication to (Karl) Jaspers, and wherever they ended up, in New York, Paris, or Rome, they were constrained, like Camus’s Sisyphus, to push the boulder of memory and.
Tony Judt. A word or two of introduction to Tony Judt might be in order since the NY Review has two big-time intellectuals whose first names start with T and whose last name includes “ud”: 1. Tony Judt: Specialist in French and European politics with a focus on the Marxist left; the continental equivalent of people like Harvey Klehr and.
Harry Bridges’ legacy as a pioneer in the 20th-century labor movement stems from two major reforms that did much to foster solidarity among West Coast longshoremen. First, he developed the concept of the worker-controlled hiring hall and negotiated its implementation with employers, thus correcting the injustices of the “shape-up” system.
The Electric Typewriter. Fictions on the Ground by Tony Judt Israel needs “settlements.” They are intrinsic to the image it has long sought to convey to overseas admirers and fund-raisers: a struggling little country securing its rightful place in a hostile environment by the hard moral work of land clearance, irrigation, agrarian self.