Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIt 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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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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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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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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well.
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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’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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