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
ADAM HOCHSCHILDYou know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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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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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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