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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIf 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 he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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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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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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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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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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Someday, 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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I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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