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I 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.

Adam Hochschild

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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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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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I 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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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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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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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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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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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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