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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

Adam Hochschild

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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
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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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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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