French Reflections
David A. BellMy writings, mostly but not entirely about French history
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Paris Transformed (Again)
“Old Paris is no more. A city’s shape changes more quickly, alas, than a mortal’s heart.”
For just about every generation of Parisians and Paris-lovers, Baudelaire’s famous line eventually rings true. With the fiftieth anniversary of my fi...
Self-Defeating Moralizing
Just another day in America, 2026. The corrupt, demented president lies with abandon about his record and storms off an interview set rather than respond to even slightly aggressive questions. The pointless war he started again threatens to...
Beating AI in the Classroom
Last Monday, the faculty of Princeton University, where I teach, voted to reinstitute the proctoring of exams after more than 130 years of reliance on an honor code to prevent cheating. The move was inevitable. Between handheld electronic d...
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...
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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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