Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDI 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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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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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To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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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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