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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.

Adam Hochschild

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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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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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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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Celebrate Event Forget Inexplicable Less Mythologize Outburst Seemingly Shaped Violence
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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 can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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Close Country Day Determination Fierce Modern Slave Two Year
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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Distraction Hard Hardship Plentiful Short Time Work
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Chance Historian Misses Missing Note Seldom
And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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