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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 Hochschild

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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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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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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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