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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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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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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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