Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
ADAM HOCHSCHILDNewt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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The 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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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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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