Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDThe first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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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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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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