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
ADAM HOCHSCHILDThings have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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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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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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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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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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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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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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