When the Facts Change

A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and Thinking the Twentieth Century, spanning a career of extraordinary intellectual engagement. Edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans, this collection includes Tony Judt's first essays, Reappraisals, which focused on twentieth-century Europe in history and memory. Some of Judt's most prominent and controversial essays were outside the scope of Reappraisals, particularly his writings on the state of Israel and its relationship to Palestine. It was thought there would be time to fit these essays into a larger frame, but sadly, this was not the case during the author's life. Now, in When the Facts Change, Tony Judt's widow and fellow historian, Jennifer Homans, has found the frame, gathering together important essays from the span of Judt's career.