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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDGrowing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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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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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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In the form of man-made global warming; one can’t be neutral at such a moment. It’s like claiming to be neutral if you’re living in Germany in 1933.
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Compared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.
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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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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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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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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 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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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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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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