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
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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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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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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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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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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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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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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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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