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The Election's Judicial Turn

On Plagiarism, and the President of Harvard

The Plight of the Elite University President

Historians and the Public

More Napoleon...

Napoleoniana

Natalie Zemon Davis, 1928-2023

Quoting Napoleon

The French Republic and Muslim Schoolgirls

Why We Need University Courses in Public Speaking

Playing Around with Machine Translation

The New French Far Right

How to Put America's Elected Monarch on Trial

Biden’s Charisma Deficit, and Why it Shouldn’t Matter (but Does).

The Death of the Magazine

Two New Opinion Pieces

Drawing Historical Parallels

On the Writing of History

What a French Middle School Reform Tells Us About How to Improve our University Admissions System

Score One for the Evil Empire

Summer Reading

Are We Still in the Forever War?

Liberty, Equality, Slavery

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

Normandy, 1944

How (and How Not) to Cover the "History Wars"

The Ukraine War Debate

In Memory of John Merriman

Recreating the Past

Erasing the Terror?

The Limits on Change in Universities

Debating the history of "total war"

My Essay on "American Exceptionalism" in "Myth America"

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