Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIt 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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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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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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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 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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