To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDTo bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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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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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’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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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 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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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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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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