David Bell

David A. Bell, author of The First Total War (Houghton Mifflin), is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins.

Currently

  • The Collaborator

    November 22, 2006

    The Unfree French looks at the German occupation of Vichy; Bad Faith is a grim biography of a French collaborator.

2005

  • Profane Illuminations

    November 17, 2005 Subscribe

    New biographies of Rousseau and Voltaire help us appreciate how very fragile the eighteenth century's great movement of ideas was, and how remarkable it is that the Enlightenment not only survived but flourished.

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