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

Adam Hochschild

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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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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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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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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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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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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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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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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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