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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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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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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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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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