David French

French is a senior editor at The Dispatch and a columnist for Time. His new book is Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation. He is a former major in the United States Army Reserve.

Recent Articles

American Leaders Made Defeat in Afghanistan Inevitable

There are few items of bipartisan consensus in the United States. Here is one—the leaders of both political parties decided it was time to leave Afghanistan and to lose the 20 year war with the...

By David French August 16, 2021

Why Republicans Are Blind to the Truth of January 6th

On Monday a small band of U.S. Capitol Police officers delivered vivid, emotional testimony about a previously unthinkable event—the day a partisan mob stormed the Capitol to try to overturn an American election. Many Americans...

By David French July 29, 2021

Loving Your Country Means Teaching Its History Honestly

Why do you love the United States of America? There is no better time to ask that question than on Independence Day. The answer to that question can and should tell us a great deal...

By David French July 2, 2021

How Can We Escape the COVID-19 Vaccine Culture Wars?

On Friday, March 19, my wife and I got in our cars to drive an hour south of our home in Franklin, Tennessee, a prosperous suburb of Nashville. The purpose of our trip was simple—to...

By David French June 8, 2021

Facebook Oversight Board’s Trump Decision Goes Way Beyond Him

Facebook’s new Oversight Board, a new, quasi-independent organization that acts as a kind of supreme court for Facebook’s moderation decisions, issued its most important decision yet. In a lengthy ruling, it determined that Facebook was...

By David French May 6, 2021

Clarence Thomas' Tech Opinion May Signal a Free Speech Shift

A curious thing happened at the Supreme Court a few days ago. One of the justices, Clarence Thomas, broke from his traditional judicial role and weighed in on a matter of public policy. He tried...

By David French April 9, 2021

Keep the Filibuster, There Are Better Ways to Reform a Broken System

It took only days for Democratic jubilation to fade. After passing an immense $1.9 trillion COVID aid package that was one of the most expensive and significant pieces of social legislation in a generation, the...

By David French March 23, 2021

Trump’s Acquittal Exposed a Republic in Peril

When you read the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, you can see how clearly the Founders understood a single moral maxim—power corrupts. Having just thrown off the yoke of a king they could not elect...

By David French February 16, 2021

The Impeachment Trial Is the Ultimate Test

As the second impeachment trial opens for Donald Trump, it’s worth asking a question—why does one of modern America’s greatest political losers still seem to have a tight grip on the Republican Party? After all,...

By David French February 10, 2021

Big Tech Made the Right Call About Trump

The story of last week’s social media crackdown – especially the most controversial elements, Twitter’s and Facebook’s decision to ban Donald Trump from its platform and Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) decision to terminate its relationship...

By David French January 16, 2021
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