All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
ADAM HOCHSCHILDSomeday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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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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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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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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