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Hubris is not a shortcoming peculiar to any one constitutional form; and the inability to envisage nemesis is modern America’s distinctive failing.  Tony Judt, “America and the World,” New York…

Published August 15th, 2010 by

One of the pleasures of reestablishing my habit of reading The New York Review of Books was discovering Tony Judt. A prolific, gifted writer, Judt’s commentary appeared, it seemed, in…