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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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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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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I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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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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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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