Darrin M. McMahon is the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Yale, he is the author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001); Happiness: A History (2006), and Divine Fury: A History of Genius (2013). McMahon is currently co-editor at the journal Modern
Intellectual History and is at work on a history of ideas of equality.