Tony Judt (1948–2010) was the founder and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU and the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Ill Fares the Land, and The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century, among other books.
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Bring Back the Rails!
January 13, 2011
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The Glory of the Rails
December 23, 2010
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Captive Minds
September 30, 2010
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Knowledge vs. Pedantry
September 30, 2010
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Meritocrats
August 19, 2010
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Words
July 15, 2010
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Magic Mountains
May 27, 2010
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America, My New-Found-Land
May 27, 2010
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Austerity
May 13, 2010
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Toni
May 13, 2010
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‘Edge People’
May 13, 2010
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An Open Letter About ALS
April 29, 2010
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Ill Fares the Land
April 29, 2010
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Cheers for the École Normale
April 29, 2010
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What Happened in May 1968?
April 8, 2010
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Work
April 8, 2010
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Girls! Girls! Girls!
April 8, 2010
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Lord Warden
March 25, 2010
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Edge People
March 25, 2010
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In Love with Trains
March 11, 2010
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Saved by Czech
March 11, 2010
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Paris Was Yesterday
March 11, 2010
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The Green Line
February 25, 2010
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Revolutionaries
February 25, 2010
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Food
February 25, 2010
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Joe
February 11, 2010
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‘Night’
February 11, 2010
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Kibbutz
February 11, 2010
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Bedder
February 11, 2010
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Night
January 14, 2010
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What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy?
December 17, 2009
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Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009)
September 24, 2009
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Amos Elon (1926–2009)
July 2, 2009
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What Have We Learned, If Anything?
May 1, 2008
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‘The Problem of Evil’: An Exchange
May 1, 2008
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The ‘Problem of Evil’ in Postwar Europe
February 14, 2008
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‘Supercapitalism’: An Exchange
January 17, 2008
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The Wrecking Ball of Innovation
December 6, 2007
Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
by Robert B. Reich
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Humphrey Wrote It
April 12, 2007
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The Case of E.P. Thompson
February 15, 2007
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Is the UN Doomed?
February 15, 2007
The UN Exposed: How The United Nations Sabotages America’s Security and Fails the World
by Eric Shawn
The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations
by Paul Kennedy
The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power
by James Traub
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Goodbye to All That?
September 21, 2006
Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown
by Leszek Kolakowski, translated from the Polish by P.S. Falla
My Correct Views on Everything
by Leszek Kolakowski, edited by Zbigniew Janowski
Karl Marx ou l’esprit du monde by Jacques Attali
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A Story Still to Be Told
March 23, 2006
The Cold War: A New History
by John Lewis Gaddis
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A Different Synagogue
December 1, 2005
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America the Vulnerable
October 20, 2005
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From The House of the Dead: On Modern European Memory
October 6, 2005
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The New World Order
July 14, 2005
At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention
by David Rieff
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
by Andrew J. Bacevich
A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility
Report of the Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change
Guantánamo and Beyond: The Continuing Pursuit of Unchecked Executive Power by Amnesty International
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How Bush Scuttled the Bioweapons Protocol
February 24, 2005
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Europe vs. America
February 10, 2005
The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
by T.R. Reid
The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream
by Jeremy Rifkin
Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West
by Timothy Garton Ash
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Dreams of Empire
November 4, 2004
America’s Inadvertent Empire
by William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric
The Imperial Tense: Prospects and Problems of American Empire
edited by Andrew J. Bacevich
Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East
by Rashid Khalidi
The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
Empire
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Multitude
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
The New Imperialism
by David Harvey
Fear: The History of a Political Idea
by Corey Robin
A New World Order
by Anne-Marie Slaughter
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An Alternative Future: An Exchange
December 4, 2003
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The Last Romantic
November 20, 2003
Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life
by Eric Hobsbawm
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Israel: The Alternative
October 23, 2003
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Anti-Americans Abroad
May 1, 2003
L’Ennemi américain: Généalogie de l’antiaméricanisme français by Philippe Roger
11 septembre 2001: L’Effroyable Imposture (9/11: The Big Lie)
by Thierry Meyssan
Pourquoi le monde déteste-t-il l’Amérique? (Why Do People Hate America?)
by Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies
Le Livre noir des États-Unis by Peter Scowen
Dangereuse Amérique: Chronique d’une guerre annoncée by Noël Mamère and Patrick Farbiaz
Après l’empire: Essai sur la décomposition du système américain by Emmanuel Todd
L’Obsession anti-américaine:Son fonctionnement, ses causes, ses inconséquences by Jean-François Revel
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America and the World
April 10, 2003
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order
by Robert Kagan
The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century
by Michael Mandelbaum
The End of the American Era: US Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century
by Charles A. Kupchan
Rethinking Europe’s Future
by David P. Calleo
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
by Fareed Zakaria
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The Way We Live Now
March 27, 2003
The War over Iraq: Saddam’s Tyranny and America’s Mission
by Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol
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‘Could the French Have Won?’
January 16, 2003
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Its Own Worst Enemy
August 15, 2002
The Paradox of American Power: Why The World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone
by Joseph S. Nye Jr.
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‘The Road to Nowhere’: An Exchange
July 18, 2002
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The Road to Nowhere
May 9, 2002
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America, the War, and Israel: An Exchange
January 17, 2002
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‘The War on Terror’
December 20, 2001
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On ‘The Plague’
November 29, 2001
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America and the War
November 15, 2001
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Romania: Bottom of the Heap
November 1, 2001
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‘The French Difference’: An Exchange
July 5, 2001
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How Flemish Is It?
May 17, 2001
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Could the French Have Won?
February 22, 2001
Strange Victory: Hitler’s Conquest of France by Ernest R. May
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The White House & the World
December 21, 2000
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Injustice in Austria
October 5, 2000
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The Story of Everything
September 21, 2000
One World Divisible: A Global History since 1945
by David Reynolds
Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to 2000
by J.M. Roberts
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Tale from the Vienna Woods
March 23, 2000
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Is There a Belgium?
December 2, 1999
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Justice to Primo Levi
August 12, 1999
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The Reason Why
May 20, 1999
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The Courage of the Elementary
May 20, 1999
Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist
by Myriam Anissimov, Translated from the French by Steve Cox
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Not a False Past
April 8, 1999
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A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
December 3, 1998
Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past edited by Pierre Nora, English-language edition edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
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The ‘Tangled Web’: An Exchange
September 24, 1998
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Counsels on Foreign Relations
August 13, 1998
A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency
by William Bundy
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On the Brink
January 15, 1998
‘One Hell of a Gamble’: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964
by Aleksandr Fursenko, by Timothy Naftali
The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis edited by Ernest R. May, by Philip D. Zelikow
The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Jupiters, 1957-1963 by Philip Nash
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François Furet (1927–1997)
November 6, 1997
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Why the Cold War Worked
October 9, 1997
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History Press by John Lewis Gaddis
The Cominform: Minutes of the Three Conferences 1947/1948/1949 edited by Giuliano Procacci
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New Germany, Old NATO
May 29, 1997
Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft by Philip Zelikow, by Condoleezza Rice
American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War: An Insider’s Account of US Policy in Europe, 1989-1992
by Robert L. Hutchings
Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany by Charles S. Maier
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America and Post-Communist Europe by Juan J. Linz, by Alfred Stepan
The Dawn of Peace in Europe
by Michael Mandelbaum
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Holy Warrior
October 31, 1996
His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time by Carl Bernstein, by Marco Politi
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It’s Luxembourg!
October 3, 1996
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‘France’s Hollow Years’: An Exchange
August 8, 1996
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Europe: The Grand Illusion
July 11, 1996
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France Without Glory
May 23, 1996
The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s by Eugen Weber
Shanghai on the Métro: Spies, Intrigue, and the French between the Wars by Michael B. Miller
French Fascism: The Second Wave, 19331939 by Robert Soucy
French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Ideology of Culture by David Carroll
Prison Journal 19401945 by Edouard Daladier
La France à l’heure allemande, 19401944 by Philippe Burrin
Etre juif en France pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Renée Poznanski
Paris after the Liberation, 19441949 by Antony Beevor, by Artemis Cooper
The Locust Years: The story of the Fourth French Republic, 19461958 by Frank Giles
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Austria & the Ghost of the New Europe
February 15, 1996
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‘Temptations of a Superpower’
February 1, 1996
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What Are American Interests?
October 5, 1995
Temptations of a Superpower by Ronald Steel
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Still Friends
September 21, 1995
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Downhill All the Way
May 25, 1995
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 19141991 by Eric Hobsbawm
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‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’
May 11, 1995
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At Home in This Century
April 6, 1995
Essays in Understanding, 19301954
by Hannah Arendt, edited by Jerome Kohn
Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 19491975 edited and with an introduction by Carol Brightman
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The Lost World of Albert Camus
October 6, 1994
Le premier homme by Albert Camus
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‘Liberal Nationalism’
June 23, 1994
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The New Old Nationalism
May 26, 1994
The Wrath of Nations: Civilization and the Furies of Nationalism by William Pfaff
Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding by Walker Connor
Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity by Liah Greenfeld
Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha’am and the Origins of Zionism
by Steven J. Zipperstein
Liberal Nationalism by Yael Tamir
Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism by Michael Ignatieff
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The West German Left & the East
April 21, 1994
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How the East Was Won
December 16, 1993
In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent by Timothy Garton Ash
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Their Favorite Thief
October 21, 1993
Genet: A Biography by Edmund White
The Selected Writings of Jean Genet edited and with an introduction by Edmund White
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‘Betrayal in France’
October 21, 1993
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Betrayal in France
August 12, 1993
The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews by Susan Zuccotti
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Fired in Belgrade
March 29, 1990
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Captive Minds, Then and Now
July 13, 2010
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Words
June 17, 2010
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Toni
April 19, 2010
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Girls! Girls! Girls!
March 11, 2010
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Edge People
February 23, 2010
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Revolutionaries
February 10, 2010
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Kibbutz
January 18, 2010
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Food
November 25, 2009

