DAVID A. BELL: Recent Publications (2025-26)
"The Life and Death of the Book
Review," Liberties, Spring 2026.
"'A Vast Symphony of Stone,'" (review of "Viollet-le-Duc:
Drawing Worlds," exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York City), The New York Review of Books, April 23, 2026.
“Who Built France?” (review of Mélanie
Lamotte, By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire), The New York Review of Books, April 9, 2026.
Review of Dan Edelstein, The
Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin, H-Diplo (Jervis Review Forum no. 165), February, 2026.
“Academic Politics at its Most
Counter-Productive: The AHA is being torn apart over members’ views on Israel,” Chronicle of Higher Education, December 17, 2025.
“We’re All Individuals!” (review of Lynn Hunt, The
Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual 1770-1800), The Nation, December 2025. Featured on “Arts & Letters Daily” website.
“Why Harvard Students Are Afraid of Bs,” Chronicle
of Higher Education, November 6, 2025.
“A Baleful Legacy” (review of
William Max Nelson, Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens), The New York Review of Books, November 6, 2025.
“France has
Survived Revolutions and Wars: Its Crisis Now is Deep, but not Terminal,” The Guardian, October 25, 2025.
“Reflections on the U.S. Presidential Election of 2024,” The Tocqueville
Review, vol. 46, no. 2 (2025), pp. 153-65.
“The Myth of Faculty Indoctrination,” The Chronicle of
Higher Education, September 15, 2025.
“A.I. is not a 21st Century
Enlightenment,” The New York Times, August 2, 2025.
“’Au moment où la gauche
américaine devrait s’unir…’ : Entretien avec David Bell,” K Magazine, July 17, 2025 (in French, with translations into English and Italian).
“`My Freedom, My Choice” (review
of Sophia Rosenfeld, The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life), The New York Review of Books, June 26, 2025.
“Avec Donald Trump, le show est devenu dangereusement réel.” Le
Monde (Paris), June 14, 2025.
“Are International Students Good for U.S.
Universities?” The New York Times, June 1, 2025.
“Harvard Doesn’t Deserve Trump’s Wrath,”
UnHerd magazine, May 2, 2025.
“Will Marine Le Pen Become a Martyr?”
UnHerd magazine, April 3, 2025. French translation: “Marine Le Pen deviendra-t-elle une martyre?” UnHerd France, April 3, 2025.
“The Trump Administration is Out for Blood,”
Chronicle of Higher Education, March 10, 2025.
“The Enlightenment Then and Now,” Liberties, vol.
5, no. 3 (2025). Featured on “Arts & Letters Daily.”
“The Age of Trump and Musk: Reflections on the Election of 2024,” Society magazine, March 2025.
“De Musk à Trump: Comment l’oligarchie techno-césariste veut renverser la démocratie en Amérique,” Le grand
continent, January 20, 2025 (in both French and Spanish).
