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David A. Bell is the Lapidus professor in the department of history at Princeton. His latest book, Men on Horseback: Charisma and Power in the Age of Revolutions , is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
June 12, 2019
In his new book, the New Yorker writer sets out to defend liberalism from its critics, but only ends up revealing its current limitations.
In modern democracies, who gets to determine what counts as truth—an elite of experts or the people as a whole?
December 13, 2018
The fault lies with both the French president himself and the political and cultural elite that formed him.
August 29, 2018
A new biography claims his vision was a stabilizing synthesis of France’s monarchical and republican political traditions. But was it?
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March 7, 2018
The genre that Pinker’s latest book most closely resembles is not 18th-century philosophie but a TED Talk.
January 25, 2018
To understand the American and French revolutions, one must look not simply at their origins in the wider world but also at how particular environments could become crucibles of intense and rapid political change.
The resentments that led a third of the electorate to vote for Le Pen are not going to disappear anytime soon.
April 4, 2017
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.
What the conservative media machine does is much more dangerous.
A new biography explores the mysterious life and times of Toussaint Louverture.
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