It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD
I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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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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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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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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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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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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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.
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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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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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