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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

Adam Hochschild

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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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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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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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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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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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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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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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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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