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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

Adam Hochschild

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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