Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
ADAM HOCHSCHILDOne 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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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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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