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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIn Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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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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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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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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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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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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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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