After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered 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.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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In 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.
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All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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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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