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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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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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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 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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