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World Leaders May 9, 2017
What Can Emmanuel Macron Accomplish as France’s President?
The resentments that led a third of the electorate to vote for Le Pen are not going to disappear anytime soon.David A. Bell
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April 4, 2017
Le Pen’s Long Shadow
If you want to understand the wave of right-wing populism erupting in Europe and the United States, France is a good place to start.
David A. Bell
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Politics December 22, 2016
Fake News Is Not the Real Media Threat We’re Facing
What the conservative media machine does is much more dangerous.
David A. Bell
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Biography November 2, 2016
Haiti’s Jacobin
A new biography explores the mysterious life and times of Toussaint Louverture.
David A. Bell
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History May 27, 2015
Enlightened. Elitist. Undemocratic.
Has the EU followed a path first blazed by Napoleon?
David A. Bell
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Biography November 22, 2006
The Collaborator
The Unfree French looks at the German occupation of Vichy; Bad Faith is a grim biography of a French collaborator.
David A. Bell
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History November 17, 2005
Profane Illuminations
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.
David A. Bell