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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDTo bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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No 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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago
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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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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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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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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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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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