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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDAnd tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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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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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
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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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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 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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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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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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