No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDZachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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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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