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
ADAM HOCHSCHILDCompared 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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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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.
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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 first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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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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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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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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