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Date: September 17, 2025 Author: The Explaining History Podcast Table of Contents Introduction: A Treatise for Our Times In the final years of his life, the esteemed historian Tony Judt penned a powerful and moving lament. His book, Ill Fares the Land, is more than a historical analysis; it is a poignant treatise on the perceived death of social democracy and the subsequent ruination wrought by neoliberalism. Judt writes not as a detached academic, but as a concerned citizen mourning the loss of a collective ideal—the post-war consensus that sought to build a more equitable society through state intervention and…