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David French

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The Terrible Man Theory of History

The Terrible Man Theory of History

The solution to Trumpism isn’t to conform to the spirit of the age, but to transform it.

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Two Comedians Walk Into a … Friendship

Two Comedians Walk Into a … Friendship

I just realized why I liked ‘Hacks’ so much.

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The Museum of Wretched Ideas Has Reopened

We seem to have forgotten more or less everything.

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Three Ways Trump Is Losing the War

The president is giving a master class in what not to do in Iran.

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Trump Is Giving ‘The Fix Was In’ New Meaning

There are scandals. There is the law. And then there’s this.

21.05.2026 20

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We Need More ‘Rabid Partisans’ Like Shane Massey

Defeating a sclerotic rump of a party is no achievement. Instead, one-party rule enables corruption. It fosters stagnation.

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I Don’t Think You Can Even Call This Hypocrisy

The secrets of one of the architects of the religious right are being revealed. One of the secrets is that they weren’t really secrets.

14.05.2026 20

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The Platner Trap

The exact wrong answer to a Republican Party that’s flirting with fascism is a man who chose to put vile Nazi imagery on his own body.

10.05.2026 30

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True Believers Blow Trump’s Mind

Our most transactional president is having trouble processing.

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There’s a 900-Year-Old Answer to Our Most Modern Problem

What should we do when a chatbot behaves like a criminal?

30.04.2026 70

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Meet the New Leader of the Free World

The world is looking to Volodymyr Zelensky for leadership.

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There Is Much More to Pope vs. President Than Meets the Eye

What fighting an unjust war really means.

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The Divine Right of … Presidents?

It didn’t work out too well for kings, either.

19.04.2026 50

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We Are Gambling Away Our Future

America’s view of liberty is upside down.

16.04.2026 30

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Trump Is Tearing at the Soul of the Military

If an unlawful order comes from the president himself, to whom does the soldier appeal?

09.04.2026 50

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A Smoldering Wick in the Darkness

The light that changed my life.

05.04.2026 40

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Is It Legal to Bully the Supreme Court?

It may be a new world, but “it’s the same Constitution.”

03.04.2026 30

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Don’t Cheer Too Hard for the Facebook Verdicts

Courts aren’t always the right answer to our digital problems.

29.03.2026 40

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How Can America Be So Miserable When It’s So Rich?

The just resentments of a shrinking middle class.

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Can Military Excellence Save Us From Trump’s Incompetence?

It should never have come to this.

19.03.2026 50

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The Omnipresence of Donald Trump Should Open Our Eyes

We have reached end-stage polarization.

15.03.2026 60

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I Declare War on You

Our constitutional framework for war lies in pieces around us.

12.03.2026 30

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James Talarico Is a Christian X-Ray

The Democratic senate candidate in Texas is teaching us about what faith really means.

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War and Peace Cannot Be Left to One Man — Especially Not This Man

The Constitution isn’t a technicality.

01.03.2026 30

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‘Time Is Not on Russia’s Side’

If the battle for Ukraine Is not World War I or World War III, what is it?

26.02.2026 30

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Is This the Most Important Supreme Court Case of the Century?

The tariff ruling may have just helped save the Republic.

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Christians Against Empathy Aren’t Who They Think They Are

Compassion is not toxic.

19.02.2026 30

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Whatever This Is, It Isn’t Anti-Zionism

Toward a sane Christian Zionism.

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Mass Detention Gets a Lift From the Courts

A very dangerous ruling in New Orleans.

12.02.2026 40

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A Movie About America Broke My Heart

I am not a Shaker. That didn’t stop me from tearing up at “The Testament of Ann Lee.”

09.02.2026 150

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A Law That Might Just Save the Midterms

A law that just might save the midterms.

05.02.2026 20

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This Is Not a Drill

What Is the F.B.I. doing raiding an election office in Georgia?

01.02.2026 30

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What MAGA Sees in the Minnesota Mirror

What MAGA sees in the Minneapolis mirror.

29.01.2026 150

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How College Can Tear Us Apart

If illiberalism is the problem, what is the cure?

26.01.2026 60

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Divorce, Canadian Style

How do you preserve the free world when America goes rogue?

22.01.2026 30

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An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good

She had no way of knowing she had crossed a line.

18.01.2026 300

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Something Is Rotten in the State of America

This is the thanks Demark gets?

15.01.2026 200

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Trump and Vance Are Fanning the Flames. Again.

Renee Good was not a “domestic terrorist.”

11.01.2026 250

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Gunboat Diplomacy Is Back. What Could Go Wrong?

The high cost of forgetting what world war is really like.

05.01.2026 150

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Christianity Is a Dangerous Faith

Living in the upside-down kingdom of God.

21.12.2025 250

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What Courage Does for Us

Bravery and cowardice are both exemplary teachers.

18.12.2025 100

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What Happens if You Refuse to Recognize That We Are in a Death Spiral

Remind me never to listen to what they are saying online about me.

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We’re Trying to Find a Line the Supreme Court Won’t Cross

It isn’t easy.

11.12.2025 80

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What Do Republicans Have to Fear? Ask Tennessee.

What a special House election just told us.

07.12.2025 30

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Pete Hegseth Is Doing Something Even Worse Than Breaking the Law

Trump and Hegseth are attacking the very character and identity of the American military.

05.12.2025 40

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‘I’ve Been Doing This Work for 25 Years and I’ve Never Seen Such Fear’

When ICE arrived in Chicago, this group had an answer.

01.12.2025 60

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‘We Are Going to Have to Fight Three Wars’

How much will Trump ask Zelensky to pay for peace in Ukraine?

27.11.2025 50

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Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation

Who should take responsibility for the president’s undeclared war in the Caribbean?

23.11.2025 60

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The Comey Case Is a Comedy of Errors

The incompetence of the Trump administration is interfering with some of its worst excesses.

20.11.2025 40

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Pope Leo Doesn’t Want to Be the Anti-Trump. But He Is.

A Christian answer to Trumpism is beginning to emerge.

16.11.2025 40

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