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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDAll 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.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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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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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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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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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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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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