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David French

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Trump’s Domestic Deployments Are Dangerous. For the Military.

Trump’s Domestic Deployments Are Dangerous. For the Military.

The nation’s most trusted institution must not be reduced to a political tool.

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Why a ‘Paleo-Confederate’ Pastor Is on the Rise

Why a ‘Paleo-Confederate’ Pastor Is on the Rise

Trump isn’t just shaping the nation; he’s also changing the evangelical church.

14.08.2025 20

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This Is No Way to Run a Country

This Is No Way to Run a Country

Federal judges are under threat across the nation.

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Israel Must Open Its Eyes

Israel Must Open Its Eyes

Defeating Hamas does not require starving a single child.

03.08.2025 100

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The Boy Who Cried Hoax

The Boy Who Cried Hoax

Alternative facts have become alternative realities.

31.07.2025 20

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The Raw Power of Repentance

“The Bear” asks the question, how do we live together when someone always seems to be going too far?

27.07.2025 100

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Christian Cancel Culture Strikes Again

Chip and Joanna Gaines had the temerity to feature a gay couple on their new show.

24.07.2025 100

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Trump’s Perversion of Justice Has Reached a New Phase

The president is determined to transform America’s legal system into his personal political weapon.

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MAGA Is Tearing Itself Apart Over Jeffrey Epstein

What happens when Trump becomes the “deep state”?

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Jordan Peterson and I Had a Chat

We had different ideas about what’s making men’s lives hard.

10.07.2025 30

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One of the Worst Industries in the World Gets Its Comeuppance

Porn platforms just got what they deserved at the Supreme Court.

06.07.2025 100

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A Reckless Judicial Nomination Puts the Senate to the Test

Trump wants one of his lawyers to be one of his judges.

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Is This Really a New Middle East?

Trying to peer through the fog of war.

26.06.2025 10

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The Problem of the Christian Assassin

What would make you put down your Bible and pick up your gun?

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Millions of Americans Like Trump Better in Theory Than in Practice

Why the president wins, loses and wins again.

15.06.2025 20

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America Is No Longer a Stable Country

Trump is playing with fire, which is just how he likes it.

09.06.2025 200

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Justice Jackson Just Helped Reset the D.E.I. Debate

How much should the law treat a person as an individual rather than as a member of a group?

08.06.2025 20

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Selfishness Is Not a Virtue

Evangelical Christianity has taken a wrong turn.

05.06.2025 200

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Why Trump Is Mad at the ‘Sleazebag’ Leonard Leo

The president is very unhappy with the federal judiciary and the Federalist Society.

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The Democrats’ 20-Million-Dollar-Man Problem

To reach the manosphere, you have to know the manosphere.

29.05.2025 10

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The Man Who Knew When to Step Down

David Souter set an example more leaders should follow.

22.05.2025 60

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Trump Is No Longer the Most Important American

Neither MAGA nor woke, the new pontiff confounds political categories.

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Harvard May Not Be the Hero We Want, but It Is the Hero We Need

The university’s defense of the Constitution doesn’t absolve it of its own sins, but the defense of the Constitution often comes through imperfect...

27.04.2025 50

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The Anti-Woke Right Has a Lot to Answer For

DeSantis walked so that Trump could run.

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Were You Raised in a Church That Fears the World or Loves Its Neighbors?

As anger and fear dominate the public square, a church that follows a resurrected savior should be a balm, not a blowtorch.

21.04.2025 200

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The Supreme Court Can’t Save America, but Here’s What It Can Do

The justices and the American people must hold the line together.

18.04.2025 100

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The Supreme Court Ruled. Trump and the A.C.L.U. Both Claimed Victory. Huh?

The administration won a narrow procedural victory, but it took a substantial constitutional loss.

13.04.2025 60

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Don’t Roll Your Eyes at Due Process

It doesn’t just protect a person’s liberty and dignity. It’s a humble acknowledgment of our own limitations.

06.04.2025 60

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Angels for Sale. Only $1,000.

Trump’s religious advisers have a peculiar view of Christianity.

03.04.2025 10

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What Rusting Russian Tanks Can Teach Us About the Pete Hegseth Group Chat

A politicized military is an ineffective military.

30.03.2025 20

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Trump Is Coming for Every Pillar of the State

About that rule of law …

27.03.2025 100

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Canada, May I Introduce You to Ukraine?

We already know what happens when great powers feel entitled to their zones of control, and the strong try to dominate the weak.

23.03.2025 100

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The Last Thing Democrats Need Is Their Own Tea Party

One was plenty.

20.03.2025 50

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Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Mahmoud Khalil

Events at Columbia show that the culture war is no longer just a culture war.

16.03.2025 200

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The MAGA Culture War Comes for Georgetown Law

If our liberties can survive a world war, then they can and should survive the Trump administration.

09.03.2025 100

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There Is a Way Out in Ukraine

It is by supporting Zelensky that we give ending the war a real shot.

07.03.2025 60

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Trump Is Breaking Things We Can’t Just Fix

The president’s about-face on Ukraine has taught our allies a lesson they won’t be unlearning anytime soon.

02.03.2025 200

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There Is Nothing Normal About Any of This

Trump’s decision to fire three JAG generals gives the game away.

27.02.2025 100

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Trump Has One Idea

What do Ukraine and the Justice Department have in common?

23.02.2025 200

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The Disrupter in Chief Can’t End a War Like This

The Trump team’s vacillations may not just cost Ukraine its independence; it could set the stage for a cataclysm.

16.02.2025 20

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Don’t Be Fooled, ‘Trump Is a Weak President’

Trump lacks the skill to govern in the way the founders intended.

14.02.2025 6

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Behold the Strange Spectacle of Christians Against Empathy

There is nothing woke about medicine or food.

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The Populist Cure Is Worse Than the Elite Disease

The push-me-pull-you relationship between Trump and his movement has a long history.

09.02.2025 80

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The Trump Crisis Deepens

The president is using every tool at his disposal to reshape the American founding.

07.02.2025 100

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Kash Patel Is a Warning Shot

Senators, take heed.

02.02.2025 70

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Does Trump’s Cabinet Look Like a Meritocracy to You?

Affirmative action for the MAGA movement isn’t an upgrade over D.E.I.

30.01.2025 10

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How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality

Us and them is all the rage.

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Donald Trump Is Running Riot

Anyone wondering whether the president was going to pick up from 2017 or 2021 can stop wondering.

24.01.2025 100

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Texas Has a Perverse Idea of Religious Freedom

MAGA’s cruelty toward immigrants and its disregard for civil liberties are on full display in the Lone Star State.

20.01.2025 100

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MAGA Is Misreading Its Mandate

America’s political future belongs to the most competent, not the most ideological.

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