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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
![Power to the Parents? The Culture Wars Come to School](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/e9cc259f-61b1-4aa2-96a1-f06583203f22/52177431292_41ccb5c410_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C614%2C5920%2C3325&w=400)
At first blush, this year might be considered the year of parental power, with the proliferation of parental bills of rights across the country that put limitations on what ca...
![Trusting "The Other"](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/58152c53-e75c-4e20-a8b3-23883c8f3b53/aif-2022-trusting.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C1600%2C901&w=400)
It’s no secret that Americans are deeply divided along partisan lines, giving us divided institutions, divided communities, even divided families and friends. At the heart of...
![Opening Session](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/0fe55411-5bd0-495f-ba1b-0743f41da2d5/52173840525_174816ae2a_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C6758%2C3802&w=400)
We’ll kick off the Festival with Big Ideas, followed by a dialogue on the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision overruling Roe v. Wade.
![Evangelical-splaining](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null12324834-74dc-465f-880d-5fdc4045641b/48170826082_8a05bd016e_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C30%2C1600%2C900&w=400)
The Pew Trust’s 2014 study of Evangelicals notes that roughly 25 percent of adults in the United States identify with evangelical Protestantism, the largest Christian followin...
![Can the Republican Party Survive the Alt Right?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null5132b3e0-405c-4a48-86b5-c5d4bc4114c5/48152835977_b38ac53bfb_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C7%2C1600%2C899&w=400)
The alt-right, or alternative right, is largely an online movement, politically defined as very far right, and often described as white nationalist or white supremacist. In re...