Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
ADAM HOCHSCHILDAll of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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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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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don’t think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries – the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others
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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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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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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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