James Robins
James Robins is an award-winning journalist and historian. His first book is When We Dead Awaken: Australia, New Zealand, and the Armenian Genocide (Bloomsbury).
Articles by James Robins
How the FBI aided the rise of white Christian nationalism in the US
Book review: "The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover" by Lerone A. Martin
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Robespierre: man of virtue or terror?
A new book on the French Revolution’s leading crusader asks how a champion of human rights became the master of the guillotine.
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Book review: Accidental Gods
Explorers from the time of Columbus have been revered as deities by the Indigenous peoples they encountered A new book asks why.
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Book review: Reign of Terror
A national security expert shows how 9/11 paved the way for a more authoritarian United States.
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Why does every Hollywood baddie need a redemption story?
Cruella de Vil is the latest villain to be transformed into a good-hearted hero. Why can’t we let baddies be baddies?
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Book review: The Hitler Conspiracies
Richard J Evans dissects the untruths emerging out of the Second World War, narratives that continue to influence conspiracies to this day.
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The master provocateur
Genius or contrarian? A decade on from Christopher Hitchens’ death, we’re still arguing over his legacy.
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Book review: Strange Rites
In 'Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World', Tara Burton describes how Americans are improvising new systems of belief.
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Stop talking about loneliness
The pandemic has accelerated a trend ongoing for centuries. Let’s call it what it is: alienation.
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Book review: The Immoral Majority
Ben Howe's polemic against Trump-supporting Christians gives us a rare insight into the evangelical split.
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A few cheap tears
Jojo Rabbit is the latest in a subgenre of films that sentimentalise the Holocaust.
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