If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are, it's tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism. - Adam Hochschild
Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
- Adam Hochschild
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men … - Adam Hochschild
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men …
Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain - the Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane … - Adam Hochschild
Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain - the Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane …
Some 2,800 Americans went to Spain [during the Spanish Civil War], and it was, by far, the largest number of Americans before or since who've ever jo… - Adam Hochschild
Some 2,800 Americans went to Spain [during the Spanish Civil War], and it was, by far, the largest number of Americans before or since who've ever jo…
I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or t… - Adam Hochschild
I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or t…
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… - Adam Hochschild
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…
You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east. Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year,… - Adam Hochschild
You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east. Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year,…
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece. - Adam Hochschild
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the form of man-made global… - Adam Hochschild
All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the form of man-made global…
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