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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

Adam Hochschild

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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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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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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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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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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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All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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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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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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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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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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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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