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I tuhia e Judt i roto i te "New York Times" op-ed, "Ko nga tangata penei i a Jean-Paul Sartre me Michel Foucault i tino maamaa. Ko tētahi take ko to rātau hiahia nui ki te Communism. I a rātou e whakapuaki ana i te hiahia ki te 'whakauru', ki te whai tūnga, e rua nga whakatupuranga o nga tohunga hinengaro i karo i tetahi take matatika e kore e taea te ahu whakamua, i etahi wa ranei, te whakaheke i te take Marxist. I whakawāteatia a Vichy hei mahi a ētahi Fascists koroheke. Kaore tetahi i titiro tata ki nga mea i tupu i te wa o te Whakanoho, akene na te mea he tokoiti noa nga maatauranga o tetahi roopu torangapu ka taea te kii he pakanga 'pai', pera i a Albert Camus. Kaore tetahi i whakatika ki te karanga 'J'accuse!' ki nga rangatira rangatira, pera i a Émile Zola i te wa o te kaupapa Dreyfus. I a Simone de Beauvoir, Roland Barthes me Jacques Derrida i uru mai ki te papa o te iwi, i te nuinga o te waa he raru kei tawhiti atu - i Madagascar, Vietnam, Cambodia ranei. Ahakoa i tēnei rā, e karanga ana ngā kaituhi whai pānga tōrangapū kia mahi i Bosnia, engari he wā noa iho e uru ana ki ngā tautohetohe mō te wā o mua o Wīwī".