To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil 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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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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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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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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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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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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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