It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDHow 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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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
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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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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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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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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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