Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
ADAM HOCHSCHILDFive years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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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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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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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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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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