It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIn the form of man-made global warming; one can’t be neutral at such a moment. It’s like claiming to be neutral if you’re living in Germany in 1933.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago
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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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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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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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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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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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