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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.

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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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I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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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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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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All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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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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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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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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