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

Adam Hochschild

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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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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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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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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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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’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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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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