You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDI 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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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