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 pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people.
Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish. - Tony Judt
Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.
- Tony Judt
We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively … - Tony Judt
We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively …
Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the… - Tony Judt
Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the…
We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth. - Tony Judt
We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past. - Tony Judt
Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.
History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same. - Tony Judt
History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.
If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its cons… - Tony Judt
If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its cons…
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants - Tony Judt
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world. - Tony Judt
Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
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