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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor

Adam Hochschild

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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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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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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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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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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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No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
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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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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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