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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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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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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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