David Bell

1 week ago | davidabell.substack.com | David Bell

For anyone who might be interested, the four lectures I gave this spring at the Collège de France, related to my new book project on the Enlightenment, are now online here. The same link will also take you to the Collège lectures given this spring by my friend and colleague Antoine Lilti in his series entitled “Au nom de l’universel: Crises et héritages,” which I can’t recommend highly enough.

1 month ago | davidabell.substack.com | David Bell

It’s hard to keep track of the outrages coming out of the Trump administration, but for anyone who cares about learning and science, here are a couple of things that are worth focusing on. They are particularly worth focusing on if you have been thinking, like several old friends of mine, that Columbia University “had it coming,” and that the concessions that it made last week were things that the Columbia administration should have been doing anyway.

2 months ago | nilsgilman.substack.com | Nils Gilman |David Bell

I see my discourse leaves you cold;Dear kids, I do not take offense;Recall: the Devil, he is old,Grow old yourselves, and he'll make sense!- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part IOne of the MAGA’s biggest misconceptions about American academia is that it’s ideologically homogeneous or a unified political bloc. This misconception stems from the fact that conservatives — and especially reactionaries — are rare in high-prestige universities.

Jan 17, 2025 | 9fin.com | David Bell |Dan Milka |William Hoffman

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Jan 13, 2025 | 9fin.com | Dan Milka |William Hoffman |David Bell

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