The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDFive years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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Compared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.
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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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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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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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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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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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