It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDYou know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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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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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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