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

Adam Hochschild

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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago
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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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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 can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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