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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDAnd he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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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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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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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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