If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
ADAM HOCHSCHILDDitto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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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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I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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Compared 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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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 he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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