Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.
Tony JudtUndergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given ethnic or geographical minority; it is that they encourage members of that minority to study themselves - thereby simultaneously negating the goals of a liberal education and reinforcing the sectarian and ghetto mentalities they purport to undermine.
Tony Judtin a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined and protected by agreed upon procedures and practices, it can never be in the long-term interest of the state or its citizens to flout those procedures at home or associate too closely overseas with the enemies of your founding ideals.
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All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.
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We are all familiar with intellectuals who speak only on behalf of their country, class, religion, 'race,' 'gender,' or 'sexual orientation,' and who shape their opinions according to what they take to be the interest of their affinity of birth or predilection. But the distinctive feature of the liberal intellectual in past times was precisely the striving for universality; not the unworldly or disingenuous denial of sectional identification but the sustained effort to transcend that identification in search of truth or the general interest. . . . In today's America, neoconservatives generate brutish policies for which liberals provide the ethical fig leaf. There really is no other diifference between them.
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Lieux de memoire . . . 'exist because there are no longer any milieux de memoire, settings in which memory is a real part of everyday experience.' And what are lieux de memoire? [They] are . . . vestiges . . . the rituals of a ritual-less society.
Tony JudtTag: memory rituals lieux-de-memoire milieux-de-memoire vestiges
dialectics, as a veteran communist explained . . . 'is the art and technique of always landing on your feet.
Tony JudtTag: dialectics
ask . . . what it is about all-embracing 'systems' of thought that leads inexorably to all-embracing 'systems' of rule.
Tony JudtTag: systems all-embracing
the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.
Tony JudtSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest.
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