Darrin McMahon

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Dr. Darrin M. McMahon is the Ben Weider Professor of History at Florida State University. He is the author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001), and Happiness: A History (Atlantic Monthly Books, 2006), which has been, or is being, translated into nine foreign languages. 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.