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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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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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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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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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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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