
David French
Senior Editor, The Dispatch; contributing writer, The Atlantic
David French is a senior editor at The Dispatch and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. Previously, he was a senior writer for National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute. Prior to this, French was a constitutional litigator and president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. A New York Times best-selling author of several books, including Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can’t Ignore, his latest is Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation. A former major in the US Army Reserve, he deployed to Iraq in 2007 and served as a squadron judge advocate, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star.
Previously

2022 Festival
Power to the Parents? The Culture Wars Come to School
Video

2022 Festival
Trusting "The Other"
Video — 44m 42s

Opening Session
Video — 1h 16m 45s

2019 Festival
Evangelical-splaining
Audio — 48m

2019 Festival
Can the Republican Party Survive the Alt Right?
Audio — 51m