The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDThe Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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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.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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