David French
French is also a senior editor at The Dispatch. He was previously a senior writer for National Review and a columnist for Time. He is a former constitutional litigator and a past president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. French is the author of books including Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation and the New York Times best seller The Rise of ISIS. He is a former major in the United States Army Reserve and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he was awarded the Bronze Star.
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Can More Church Heal What Ails the Lonely Heart?
On the necessity of community for the hope and purpose we need
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Don’t Minimize Biden’s Classified-Information Mess
Stop granting politicians a legal deference they don’t deserve.
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There’s No Way to Repair Marriage Without Repairing Men
Our nation’s masculinity crisis is the cause and result of the great marriage divide.
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The Oddly Intense Anger Against Zelensky, Explained
Domestic animosity drives right-wing rage
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How Much Longer Can Trump's Con Endure?
Trump’s lies offer his followers hope. It takes more than fact-checking to change their minds.
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How False Beliefs Propel Cultural Conflict
A new study shows the misguided futility of the history wars
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Bryan Anselm / Redux Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson Don’t Understand the First Amendment
Twitter is a private company—not the federal government.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Most Consequential First Amendment Case This Term
303 Creative v. Elenis isn’t about LGBTQ rights, as many people believe it to be, but about what constitutes speech.
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This Thanksgiving Season I’m Thankful for … Lawsuits?
How defamation litigation helped save democracy
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Pluralism Has Life Left in It Yet
The Respect for Marriage Act, and the harmony between religious liberty and LGBTQ rights.
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Getty; The Atlantic My Decision to Serve
A Veterans Day reflection
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The Hidden Way That Election Denial Hurt Republicans
If the base believes it didn’t lose, then it won’t change.
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Make Character Great Again
America can’t survive the complete corruption of our political class.
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The Mistakes That Parents Make
Parenting models serve the family. The family doesn’t serve the model.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Herschel Walker and the Plight of the True Conservative Voter
There's no good option for conservative voters in Georgia this election.
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Two Hatreds Empower Anti-Semitism on the Right
When a movement loses its moral voice and its moral will
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The Alex Jones Verdict Exposed an Important Legal Truth
The fabrication-industrial complex is skating on thin legal ice.
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Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg / Getty There’s Only One Group to Blame for How Republicans Flocked to Trump
And it’s not “the media.”
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Why Dictators Underestimate Liberal Democracies
Our vitality creates our luxury, and our luxury conceals our vitality.
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Hatred Makes Fools of Us All
Tucker Carlson’s conspiracies show that animosity fuels gullibility.
