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.
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.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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 yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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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.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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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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No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
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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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