I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDLeopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well.
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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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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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