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Tony Judt Wins December Sidney for
What is Living and What is Dead in Social Democracy
But my concern tonight is the following: Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so? We appear to have lost the capacity to question the present, much less offer alternatives to it. Why is it so beyond us to conceive of a different set of arrangements to our common advantage?
Our shortcoming—forgive the academic jargon—is discursive. We simply do not know how to talk about these things. To understand why this should be the case, some history is in order.
Read Judt's whole essay What is Living and What is Dead in Social Democracy here.
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The Hillman Foundation announced today that Tony Judt has won the December Sidney Award for What Is Living and What Is Dead In Social Democracy, his extraordinary piece in the December 17th issue of The New York Review of Books. Judt's essay, based on lectures delivered at New York University last October, chronicles the role of social democracy in 20th century political thought. Read more...
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UPDATE: Nina Bernstein follows-up on her Hillman prize winning story “Deaths in Immigrant Detention” with her recent piece, "Documents Reveal Earlier Immigrant Deaths," in the New York Times.
Press Release: Tony Judt Wins December Sidney for 'What is Living and What is Dead in Social Democracy'
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