French Press

This is the archive page for The French Press, which is no longer actively sending. Every Tuesday and Sunday David French wrote about the law, politics, faith, culture and global affairs—and often how they interact with each other.

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A Crucial Court Case Exposes the Darkness of America’s Worst Industry

Remember the name Serena Fleites—a survivor who has become a hero.

There Is No Remaining Christian Case for Trump

Trump discipled the church more than the church discipled Trump.

Culture Wars End With Consequences

Reality always gets a vote, and reality always wins.

The God Gap Helps Explain a ‘Seismic Shift’ in American Politics

The most important religious divide isn't between right and left, but between left and left

No, Ron DeSantis Isn’t Worse than Trump

When Florida right meets California left.

Against the Extremism of the American Masculinity Debate

There is always a path to raising a boy to be his own version of a good man.

Finding the Lost Boys of American Life

We are our brothers’ keepers.

This July Fourth, Meet Three Americas

The red, the blue, and the tired.

The Case for Prosecuting Donald Trump Just Got Much Stronger

New testimony may have produced a smoking gun.

Roe Is Reversed, and the Right Isn’t Ready

A movement animated by rage and fear isn’t ready to embrace life and love.

The Subtle Ways Even Peaceful Partisans Enable Political Violence

Begging Republicans and Democrats to clean their own houses.

Mike Pence and the Christian Conflict on January 6

How right and left get Pence wrong.

How to Steal $250 Million

And how the right-wing media was indispensable to Trump’s 2020 scam.

There Is No Right Person to Hate

An assassination attempt against Brett Kavanaugh reveals the price of American vitriol

America’s Violent Heart

To reform our country we have to understand our culture.