Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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 international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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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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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 he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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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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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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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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