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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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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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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.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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In the form of man-made global warming; one can’t be neutral at such a moment. It’s like claiming to be neutral if you’re living in Germany in 1933.
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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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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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