Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIts 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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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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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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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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