The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDZachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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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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