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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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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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