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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.

Adam Hochschild

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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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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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