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James Robins

James Robins is an award-winning journalist and historian. His first book, When We Dead Awaken: Australia, New Zealand, and the Armenian Genocide, was published in 2020.

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August 8, 2023
Critical Mass
The 1848 Revolutions Did Not Fail
The year that Europe went to the barricades changed the world. But it has not left the same impression on the public imagination as 1789 or 1917.
January 19, 2023
Critical Mass
How to Read The Communist Manifesto
The novelist China Miéville aims to show that Marx’s words remain just as vital as when they were first hastily composed.
February 16, 2021
Magazine
Can Historians Be Traumatized by History?
Their secondhand experience of past horrors can debilitate them.
September 23, 2020
Apocalypse Soon
The Case for Calling Climate Change “Genocide”
There’s no question that climate change is killing people—but you could also argue that it qualifies as wanton extermination of entire cultures.

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