Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDDitto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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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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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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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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