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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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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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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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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 of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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