It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDDitto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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