If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
ADAM HOCHSCHILD
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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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don’t think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries – the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others
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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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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
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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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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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