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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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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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 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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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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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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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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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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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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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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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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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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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