All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
ADAM HOCHSCHILDYou can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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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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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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