Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDMussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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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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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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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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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well.
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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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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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