I see myself as, first and above all…– Tony Judt
I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next,
I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next,
Social democrats are characteristically modest – a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak
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It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from charlatanry to ambition
The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who
I believe that if we think back to the period from F.D.R. through, let us say, Bush I, until the end of the Cold War,
Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class
I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used
I don’t want to be the passively alert vegetable in the corner that takes in everything but can’t communicate, which I think would suck a
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