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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIt’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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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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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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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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Compared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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