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Historians sign letter protesting exclusion of Tony Judt

A letter protesting the cancellation of a talk by Tony Judt to the Polish Consulate has been signed by more than a hundred people including:

Peter Beinart, Thomas Bender, Ian Buruma, Lizbeth Cohen, Franklin Foer, Timothy Garton Ash, Todd Gitlin, Michael Kazin, Richard Sennett, Jim Sleeper, Fritz Stern, Andrew Sullivan, Michael Tomasky, Leon Wieseltier, Alan Wolfe, and Marilyn Young.
Read entire article at NY Review of Books