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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDI think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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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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