All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
ADAM HOCHSCHILDYou can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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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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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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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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