Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don’t think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries – the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIn 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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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 know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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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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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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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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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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