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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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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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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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The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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