May 21, 2010 0
Ill Fares the Land, by Tony Judt
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What then must we do?
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Ill Fares the Land
By Tony Judt
(New York: Penguin, 2010)
Ill Fares the Land makes for a brisk if chilling read. “We have entered an age of insecurity: economic insecurity, physical insecurity, political insecurity,” it begins. “The last time a cohort of young people expressed comparable frustration at the emptiness of their lives and the dispiriting purposelessness of their world was in the 1920s.”
I knew about the 1920s from my grandfather, Whittaker Chambers.
