Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIt’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don’t think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries – the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others
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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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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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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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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’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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