How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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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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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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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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The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Compared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.
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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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Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don’t think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries – the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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