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In the form of man-made global warming; one can’t be neutral at such a moment. It’s like claiming to be neutral if you’re living in Germany in 1933.

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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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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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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago
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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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