French Reflections
David A. BellMy writings, mostly but not entirely about French history
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Resistance and Dissent Under Trump
When M. Gessen won the Pulitzer Prize for opinion writing last week, The New York Times proudly reposted a bevy of columns by the Russian émigré op-ed writer. At the top of the list was a piece from February 8, 2025, bearing the headline “T...
Resistance and Dissent Under Trump
When M. Gessen won the Pulitzer Prize for opinion writing last week, The New York Times proudly reposted a bevy of columns by the Russian émigré op-ed writer. At the top of the list was a piece from February 8, 2025, bearing the headline “T...
Military Arithmetic
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile—
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
These words of Rudyard Kipling, from his 1886 poem “Arithmetic on the Frontier,” have come to my mind often...
New Writing
I’ve had a few new pieces of writing come out over the past couple of months that I hope will be of interest to readers of this column. Here is a quick roundup. (You can find a full list of my recent publications on this page of my website)...
America in 2026
In this season of ruin, I think from time to time of Shelley’s brilliantly savage sonnet “England in 1819” (see below), written in white-hot anger against his country’s corrupt elite in the aftermath of the so-called Peterloo Massacre of pr...
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Professor of History at Princeton, author of Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020).
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