The 30+ Adam Hochschild Quotes

Newt Gingrich Seldom Misses A Chance To Note That He Is A Historian.

Even [ernst] Hemingway, Perhaps The Most Intentionally Non-political Of American Writers, Became Passionately Partisan During The Spanish Civil War.

I Can Certainly Sympathize With Writers Who Don't Want To Put Themselves Or Their Loved Ones At Risk.

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.

It Sure Is A Rising Tide, And We Have A Particularly Nasty Exemplar Of It In The U.s., In Donald Trump.

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.

Ronald Reagan Perfected The Subtler Version Long Ago By Talking About "welfare Mothers" - A Code Phrase For People Of Colour.

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.

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 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.

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.

I'm After A Snake And Please God I'll Scotch It.

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; You Can Sense The Vast Inequalities Of Tsarist Russia In [anton] Chekhov And [lev] Tolstoy.