If you have a graduate degree in philosophy plus an additional one in economics, this book might be for you. Everybody else: lots of luck.
Brooks writing about poverty is like a celibate writing about sex: it's something he knows nothing about.
Last week, the New York Times reported on Library Systems & Services, a private, for-profit company that an increasing number of towns are contracting...
Tony Judt has been called a self-hating Jew by some of his critics. In reality he was proud to continue the Jewish tradition of irreverent, independen...
Tony Judt, born and educated in Britain, pondered American culture and politics with the critical eye of an uncle whose affection was tempered by exasperation but buoyed by an undaunted belief in us.
NEW YORK — Tony Judt, a highly praised and controversial historian who wrote with sharp persistence about the changing world at large and the tr...
We are at a critical crossroads in history when many tens of millions see the corruption and unfairness of the current economy but do not know what to do about it.
Big and little Judt exchanged a series of simpering bromides on the Times' op-ed page. This doesn't sound like any 15-year-old I've known. 15-year-olds don't sound like 62-year-olds, unless they are.
Tony Judt advertises himself as offering a discussion of Israel "without clichés." But this generous offer is, clearly, one gift horse whose mouth should be looked into.
Helen Thomas expressed a cockeyed and impractical position about Israel--one held by much of the world--and lost her job because of it. This is a bor...
The following piece, from the current issue of The New York Review of Books, is by Tony Judt, director of the Remarque Institute at NYU. It is the fir...
