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Looking At David French

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The other day, I ran into a piece by David French on Jonah Goldberg's Dispatch newsletter, " The Moral Collapse of America's Largest Christian University ". Up to now, I haven't given David French much thought. All I knew about him was that, as a writer for National Review, he briefly mulled running against Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2016, making him a never-Trumper. Poking around the web, I saw that he's now, like David Brooks, a contribuing writer for The Atlantic, as well as Senior Editor for Goldberg's Dispatch and a columnist for Time. Yet Wikipedia says of him , David Austin French (born January 24, 1969) is an American political commentator, theologically conservative traditional Christian, and former attorney who has argued high profile religious liberty cases. The "theologically conservative traditional Christian" part puzzles me. Here's what he has to say about "Christians" in the Dispatch st...