Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDYou’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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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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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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