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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

Adam Hochschild

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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 know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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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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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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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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