French Reflections
David A. BellMy writings, mostly but not entirely about French history
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Forty-one years ago, a recent Yale graduate named Jacob Weisberg wrote a profile of the Republican operative and influence peddler Roger Stone for The New Republic, under the headline “The State-of-the-Art Washington Sleazeball.” It met wit...
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The Future of Plagiarism
Elizabeth Eisenstein, in The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, quotes a thirteenth-century Franciscan monk who observed that there are four ways to make books. One can simply copy the work of another without alteration. One can put toge...
The Future of Academia
The tumultuous events of the past year and a half have made it all too easy to imagine that American academia is not going through fundamental structural changes, but only an exceptional, irrational, and hopefully brief episode linked to a...
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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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