Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDMussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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