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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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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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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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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 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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don’t think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries – the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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