When the facts change : essays, 1995-2010 /

In an age in which the lack of independent public intellectuals has often been sorely lamented, the historian Tony Judt played a rare and valuable role, bringing together history and current events, Europe and America, what was and what is with what should be. In When the Facts Change, Tony Judt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Judt, Tony
Other Authors:	Homans, Jennifer
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Penguin Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Judt, Tony > Philosophy. Judt, Tony > Political and social views. History > Philosophy. Historiography > Philosophy. History > Moral and ethical aspects. Historiography > Moral and ethical aspects. Historians > Professional ethics. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. HISTORY / Essays.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: In Good Faith
Part One 1989: Our Age
Chapter I Downhill All the Way
Chapter II Europe: The Grand Illusion
Chapter III Crimes and Misdemeanors
Chapter IV Why the Cold War Worked
Chapter V Freedom and Freedonia
Part Two Israel, the Holocaust, and the Jews
Chapter VI The Road to Nowhere
Chapter VII Israel: The Alternative
Chapter VIII A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy
Chaper IX The "Problem of Evil" in Postwar Europe
Chapter X Fictions on the Ground
Chapter XI Israel Must Unpick Its Ethnic Myth
Chapter XII Israel Without Cliches
Chapter XIII What Is to Be Done?
Part Three 9/11 and the New World Order
Chapter XIV On the Plague
Chapter XV Its Own Worst Enemy
Chapter XVI The Way We Live Now
Chapter XVII Anti-Americans Abroad
Chapter XVIIIThe New World Order
Chapter XIX Is the UN Doomed?
Chapter XX What Have We Learned, if Anything?
Part Four The Way We Live Now
Chapter XXI The Glory of the Rails
Chapter XXII Bring Back the Rails!
Chapter XXIII The Wrecking Ball of Innovation
Chapter XXIV What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy?
Chapter XXV Generations in the Balance
Part Five In the Long Run We Are All Dead
Chapter XXVI Francois Furet (1927-1997)
Chapter XXVII Amos Elon (1926-2009)
Chapter XXVIII Leszek Kolakowski (1927-2009)
Chronological List of Tony Judt's Published Essays and Criticism
Index