One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDOne of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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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 yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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Things 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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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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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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