Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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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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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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