No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDMany of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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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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