No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDNo one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
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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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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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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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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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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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