Compared 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 HOCHSCHILDHow 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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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 can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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I 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.
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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 can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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