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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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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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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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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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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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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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