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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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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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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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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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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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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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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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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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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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