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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The Fox News Distortion Field and Other Media Maladies
The American right surveyed a biased media landscape and built something ... worse.
Come On in America, the Libertarian(ish) Water Is Fine
Want to right historical wrongs? Give more liberty a try.
Kyle Rittenhouse, Open Carry, and the Breaking of Self-Defense Law
We must pay serious attention to the increased prevalence of open-carried rifles.
When the Church Does Right, and the State Goes Wrong
A condemned man’s last request puts our nation’s constitutional commitments to the test.
An Airing of Grievances Against Diversity Training
Can we please take a realistic look at an $8 billion industry?
What the Virginia Election Taught America About ‘the New Politics of Abortion’
With Roe in the crosshairs, voters respond with a yawn—not a roar.
When Everyone Is Right That Everyone Is Wrong
Or, yet another reason why a third party might save American politics.
A Christian Defense of American Classical Liberalism
On the push and pull between ‘humans as made in the image of God and humans still trapped in sin.’
When the State Kinda Sorta Parents Your Child
It’s vital to understand who really runs public education, and it’s not parents.
Kyrsten Sinema, the Senator of the Exhausted Majority?
Sinema is a political unicorn. Can she exist much longer in the real world?
Evangelical Elites, Fighting Each Other
As the culture war changes, there will be new divisions and new alliances.