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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor

Adam Hochschild

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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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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 know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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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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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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