Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDI 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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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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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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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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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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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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