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Frequently over the years, but especially since Thomas Frank's bestseller What's the Matter with Kansas, my adopted state has been written off by various secular and liberal writers across the United States as zealous backwater, a place run by religious Full Article at In Medias Res
BERKELEY – On my desk right now are reporter Timothy Noah’s new book The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It and Milton and Rose Director Friedman’s classic Free to Choose: A Personal Statement. Considering t Full Article at Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal
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Havana vanities come to dust in Miami. On the August night in 1933 when General Gerardo Machado, then president of Cuba, flew out of Havana into exile, he took with him five revolvers, seven bags of gold, and five friends, still in their pajamas. Still, Full Article at The New Yorker
WHEN people argue we can muddle our way through after the debt crisis, they often cite the period after 1945 as an example.* But it is worth remembering the state of European economies after the Second World War. There are some good examples in the excel Full Article at Economist
Judt and Hayek: I would certainly be happy if I was generally regarded as being as dishonest and as ignorant as Tony Judt. After achieving that, I think I’d try to become as poor as Donald Trump and as ugly as Jude Law. Judt and Hayek: [R]eally, the only Full Article at Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal
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A few months ago, Tyler Cowen argued that Tony Judt had been unfair to Hayek in his final book. it doesn’t show Judt in such an overwhelmingly favorable light. He is cranky, unfair to his intellectual opponents, and he repeatedly misrepresents thinkers s Full Article at Crooked Timber
Contra: Waldron's argument privileges an interest over a fundamental right, responds Ivan Hare. His analogy between hate speech legislation and environmental laws is flawed: "the polluter is not exercising a fundamental right, but the contributor to publ Full Article at Eurozine
Timothy Snyder is the Housum professor of history at Yale University and the author of “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin.” Most recently he helped Tony Judt to write “Thinking the Twentieth Century.” Calories were made to be counted, but they Full Article at History News Network
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No scholar, historian or anyone else is ethically excused from their own circumstances. We are also participants in our own time and place and cannot retreat from it.
I think it went quite well, don’t you?
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- PrisaEdicionesC
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Just finished reading "Algo va mal" by Tony Judt. http://t.co/VFmxx8oB Where is our society heading?
- ToxinPowe 8 hours ago
- atenea0208
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'Pensar el siglo XX' de Tony Judt y Timothy Snyder http://t.co/7ferWwo4
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