Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
ADAM HOCHSCHILD
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.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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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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In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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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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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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