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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» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
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» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
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» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
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» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
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