It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDNo 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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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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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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