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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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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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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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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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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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In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago
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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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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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