No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDNo international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDMussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDTo bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDThe first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDLeopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDFive years ago, who would have thought this possible?
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIn 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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDSomeday, 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
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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDYou can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDAll 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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIt sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDThings 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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDBecause they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDYou know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDAnd he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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