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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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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Getty; The Atlantic My Decision to Serve
A Veterans Day reflection
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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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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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Gionata Emanuele Bazzoli / Getty How to Fix America’s Child-Pornography Crisis
The country could do much more to control this scourge, and it could do so without violating the First Amendment.
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Jon Elswick / AP What the Search-Warrant Affidavit Tells Us
The former president was not giving up top-secret national-security documents. DOJ had no choice but to act. Trump has only himself to blame.
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Bloomberg / Getty Trump Will Release the Warrant
When it’s good for Trump, and not before
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Al Drago-Pool / Getty The Criminal Case Against Trump Is Getting Stronger
Trump might clear the bar for incitement on January 6, and that’s far from his only legal risk.
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Brendan Hoffman / Getty The Constitution Isn’t Working
And the Supreme Court can’t fix it by itself.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty The People v. Donald Trump
The evidence for a possible criminal case against the former president is piling up.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty The Pro-life Movement’s Work Is Just Beginning
Now is the time for gratitude and profound humility about what comes after Roe.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty The Southern Baptist Horror
How many bad apples must we pluck before we recognize that the orchard is diseased?
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty What Alito Got Right
The Court’s job is not to determine which rights we should possess but rather which rights we do possess.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Let Coach Kennedy Pray
In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the Supreme Court has the chance to ensure that teachers are not the state’s robots.
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Chris O'Meara / AP Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee
The American right has lost the plot on free speech.
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The Atlantic This Is a Uniquely Perilous Moment
Smaller-scale tactical nuclear weapons could bring the great powers into a brutal, deadly, and unprecedented conflict.
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Getty; The Atlantic Russia’s Initial Failures Don’t Mean Ukraine Will Survive
Putin’s military may seek to recover from its early mistakes with increased brutality.
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Getty; Adam Maida / The Atlantic Georgia Has a Very Strong Case Against Trump
To see the most compelling evidence of the former president’s criminality, look to the Peach State.
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John Springer Collection / Getty; The Atlantic The New Right’s Strange and Dangerous Cult of Toughness
An emerging culture idolizes a twisted version of “toughness” as the highest ideal and despises a false version of “weakness” as the lowest vice.
