Introduction : in good faith -- Part one. 1989 : our age -- Downhill all the way -- Europe : the grand illusion -- Crimes and misdemeanours -- Why the Cold War worked -- Freedom and Freedonia -- Part two. Israel, the Holocaust, and the Jews -- The road to nowhere -- Israel : the alternative -- A lobby, not a conspiracy -- The "problem of evil" in postwar Europe -- Fictions on the ground -- Israel must unpick its ethnic myth -- Israel without clichés -- What is to be done? -- Part three. 9/11 and the new world order -- On 'The plague' -- Its own worst enemy -- The way we live now -- Anti-Americans abroad -- The new world order -- Is the UN doomed? -- What have we learned, if anything? -- Part four. The way we live now -- The glory of the rails -- Bring back the rails! -- The wrecking ball of innovation -- What is living and what is dead in social democracy? -- Generations in the balance -- Part five. In the long run we are all dead -- François Furet (1927-1997) -- Amos Elon (1926-2009) -- Leszek Kołakowski (1927-2009) -- Chronological list of Tony Judt's published essays and criticism
