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.
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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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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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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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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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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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Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well.
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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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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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