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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.

Adam Hochschild

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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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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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 his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago
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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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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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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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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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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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