Tony Judt & Henry Adams: What have we learned, if anything?

[Thomas Beshear]

Possibly already posted here, but if not -- Judt died on Aug. 6 of Lou 
Gehrig's. A terrible loss.

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Subject: Tony Judt & Henry Adams: What have we learned, if anything?


> The twentieth century is hardly behind us but already its quarrels and
> its achievements, its ideals and its fears are slipping into the
> obscurity of mis-memory. In the West we have made haste to dispense
> whenever possible with the economic, intellectual, and institutional
> baggage of the twentieth century and encouraged others to do likewise.
> In the wake of 1989, with boundless confidence and insufficient
> reflection, we put the twentieth century behind us and strode boldly
> into its successor swaddled in self-serving half-truths: the triumph
> of the West, the end of History, the unipolar American moment, the
> ineluctable march of globalization and the free market.
>
>
>
> http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/judt-tony/