Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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It 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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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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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