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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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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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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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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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