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
ADAM HOCHSCHILDSkinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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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 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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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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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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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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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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