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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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 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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil 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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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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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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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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In the form of man-made global warming; one can’t be neutral at such a moment. It’s like claiming to be neutral if you’re living in Germany in 1933.
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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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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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