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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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It 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 know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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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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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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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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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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