¿When the facts change, I change my mind¿what do you do, sir?¿ / / A great thinker¿s final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays spanning a career of extraordinary intellectual engagement / / In an age in which there has been an erosion of fact-based journalism and the lack of independent public intellectuals has often been sorely lamented, Tony Judt played a rare and valuable role, bringing together history and current events, Europe and America, the world as it was and as it is with what it should be. In When the Facts Change, Tony Judt¿s widow and fellow historian Jennifer Homans has assembled an essential collection of Judt¿s most important and influential pieces written in the last fifteen years of his life, when he found his voice in the public sphere. These seminal essays reflect the full range of Judt¿s concerns, including Europe as an idea and in reality; Israel, the Holocaust, and the Jews; American hyperpower and the world after 9/11; and issues of social inclusion and social justice in a time of increasing inequality. / / Judt believed his real job was not to say what wasn¿t but to say what was¿to tell a convincing, clear story from available evidence, and to do it with a view of what was right and what was just. This was not only a duty, but a moral responsiblity for Judt and When the Facts Change is a testament to his legacy. /
TABLE OF CONTENTS: /
Introduction: In Good Faith 1 (12)
Part One 1989: Our Age
Chapter I Downhill All the Way
13 (17)
Chapter II Europe: The Grand Illusion
30 (17)
Chapter III Crimes and Misdemeanors
47 (18)
Chapter IV Why the Cold War Worked
65 (20)
Chapter V Freedom and Freedonia
85 (22)
Part Two Israel, the Holocaust, and the Jews
Chapter VI The Road to Nowhere
107 (8)
Chapter VII Israel: The Alternative
115 (9)
Chapter VIII A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy
124 (5)
Chapter IX The "Problem of Evil" in Postwar Europe
129 (13)
Chapter X Fictions on the Ground
142 (5)
Chapter XI Israel Must Unpick Its Ethnic Myth
147 (4)
Chapter XII Israel Without Cliches
151 (5)
Chapter XIII What Is to Be Done?
156 (15)
Part Three 9/11 and the New World Order
Chapter XIV On The Plague
171 (12)
Chapter XV Its Own Worst Enemy
183 (19)
Chapter XVI The Way We Live Now
202 (16)
Chapter XVII Anti-Americans Abroad
218 (16)
Chapter XVIII The New World Order
234 (18)
Chapter XIX Is the UN Doomed?
252 (17)
Chapter XX What Have We Learned, if Anything?
269 (16)
Part Four The Way We Live Now
Chapter XXI The Glory of the Rails
285 (9)
Chapter XXII Bring Back the Rails!
294 (9)
Chapter XXIII The Wrecking Ball of Innovation
303 (16)
Chapter XXIV What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy?
319 (20)
Chapter XXV Generations in the Balance
339 (8)
Part Five In the Long Run We Are All Dead
Chapter XXVI Francois Furet (1927--1997)
347 (8)
Chapter XXVII Amos Elon (1926--2009)
355 (5)
Chapter XXVIII Leszek Kolakowski (1927--2009)
360 (7)
Chronological List of Tony Judt's Published Essays and Criticism 367 (8)
Index 375
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