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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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