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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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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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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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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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