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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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