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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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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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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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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 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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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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.
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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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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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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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