I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDYou’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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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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