If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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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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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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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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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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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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Things 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.
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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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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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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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How 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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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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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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