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

Adam Hochschild

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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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Always Desire East Evil Expand Hitler Loudly Talk Talking Year
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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Appeal Element Fascism Playback Politician Power Tactic Taking Vying
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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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