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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDAnd 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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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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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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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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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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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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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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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