Darrin McMahon
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Darrin M. McMahon is a historian, author, public speaker, and currently a professor of History at Dartmouth College.
Trained as a historian of France, his first book Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity dealt with opposition within France to the Enlightenment legacy in the 18th and 19th centuries. He is also the author of Happiness: A History (Atlantic Monthly Books, 2006), and Divine Fury: A History of Genius (Basic Books, 2013).
Dr. McMahon is also the editor, with Florence Lotterie, of Les Lumières européennes dans leurs relations avec les autres grandes cultures et religions du XVIIIe siècle (Honoré Champion, 2002). His writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, Daedalus, and the Wilson Quarterly, and his work has been featured on CBS's "Sunday Morning," the BBC, the CBC, and numerous National Public Radio programs, including "The Diane Rehm Show," "To the Best of Our Knowledge," "On Point," "The Leonard Lopate Show" and "Forum With Michael Krasny." Dr. McMahon is a regular contributor to the New Republic's academic blog, the Open University, and a long-time associate of Pacem Productions, a Los Angeles based production company specializing in documentary and educational film for television.
