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
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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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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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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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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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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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