Tony Judt | Michael Tomasky

You have probably heard that Tony Judt (pronounced Jutt) passed away over the weekend. He was one of America's leading intellectuals and had suffered for two years from the horrible Lou Gehrig's disease, which left him a quadriplegic. He was just 62.

The New York Review of Books, where he wrote frequently, has assembled some of his writings for it in one handy place, which you can visit here. I commend to you also our own Ed Pilkington's profile of him in the dear old G. from earlier this...