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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDLeopold’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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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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.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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