Tony Judt directs the Remarque Institute at NYU and is the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. His latest book, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, was recently reissued (January 2010).

Read Tony Judt’s brilliant and very timely lecture here:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23519

The text, published at the New York Review of Books, is adapted from his lecture given at New York University on October 19, 2009.

You can also see the video of the lecture:

http://remarque.as.nyu.edu/object/io_1256242927496.html

Read also:

The Trials of Tony Judt

Even as ALS tightens its grip, the historian remains outspoken

By Evan R. Goldstein

The Chronicle Review, January 6, 2010:

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Trials-of-Tony-Judt/63449/