It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDRonald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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