No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDNo international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDDitto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDBecause they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDTo bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDZachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDI think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDHitler 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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDI can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDI think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDThe late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDCompared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIt sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIt’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDSo people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDAnd 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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