Ill Fares The LandBy: Tony Judt 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' Oliver Goldsmith Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever remains of our sense of shared purpose. But we have forgotten how to think about the life we live together: its goals and purposes. We are now