DAVID A. BELL: Recent Publications (2022-23)
ARTICLES:
“Will Marine Le Pen Defend French Jews?” UnHerd magazine, November 23, 2023.
“Why We’re Still So Obsessed with Napoleon,” Time magazine online, November 22,
“Why Napoleon Still Has Star Power,” The Wall Street Journal, November 10, 2023.
“DeSantis Has Failed America’s Charisma Test,” UnHerd magazine, July 31, 2023.
“As France Burns, the Far Right Rises,” UnHerd magazine, July 3, 2023.
“Macron’s Extreme Center Will Not Fall,” UnHerd magazine, March 30, 2023.
“Hommage à John Merriman," Revue d’histoire du dix-neuvième siècle, no. 65 (2022), pp. 159-60
“So You Want to Be a History Professor,” Chronicle of Higher Education Review, January 5, 2023.
“Citadels of Neoliberalism or Bastions of Wokism: What Elite Higher Ed’s Critics on Both the Left and
Right Get Wrong,” Chronicle of Higher Education Review, December 9, 2022.
Two Cheers for Presentism,” Chronicle of Higher Education, August 23, 2022.
“Napoleon Bonaparte in Modern European Political Culture,” Ricerche di storia politica, vol. 22, no. (2022),
pp. 117-129.
“Does Putin’s War Mark a New Period in History?” Foreign Policy magazine (Summer, 2022).
"For a New Social History of the Enlightenment: Authors, Readers, and Commercial Capitalism," Modern
"Marat/Zemmour," Liberties magazine, volume 2, no. 3 (2022).
"The Zelensky Myth: Why We Should Resist Hero-Worshipping Ukraine's President," The New Statesman,
BOOK CHAPTERS:
(ed.) The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars, vol. II, Cambridge University Press (2023),
the Biggest Lies and Legends About Our Past, Basic Books (2023), pp. 13-24.
REVIEWS:
Review of Hervé Drévillon, Penser et écrire la guerre: Contre Clausewitz. 1780-1837, Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, vol. 77, no. 4 (2022).
"Distant Moments" (review of Joan Scott, On the Judgment of History), The Nation, May 9-16, 2022