And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDAll of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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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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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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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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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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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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