I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDI’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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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
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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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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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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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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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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 yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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