No International Court Can Ever Substitute For

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 - You've Got Politicians In Power Or Vying For Power Who Are Taking Tactics And Elements Of Their Appeal From The Playbook Of Fascism.

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 Joined Somebody Else's Civil War. I Think They Were Primarily People Who Were Deeply Alarmed By The Menace Of Fascism. They Saw This On The Horizon. I Quote One Volunteer, Maury Colow Of New York, Who Said, "for Us It Was Never Franco, It Was Always Hitler."

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.

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, Zachary Macaulay, Who Once Traveled On A Slave Ship Across The Atlantic, Taking Notes. Skinner Goes Everywhere, From Border Crossings To Brothels To Bargaining Sessions With Dealers In Human Beings, To Bring Us This Vivid, Searing Account Of The Wide Network Of Human Trafficking And Servitude Which Spans Today's Globe.