And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDMussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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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 [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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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Compared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.
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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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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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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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