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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.

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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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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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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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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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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
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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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