David French
David French
Senior Editor @TheDispatch, contributing writer @TheAtlantic, Co-host, Advisory Opinions and Good Faith podcasts, Iraq vet, married to @NancyAFrench.Source
Franklin, TN
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Opinion | The Rage and Joy of MAGA America

Opinion | The Rage and Joy of MAGA America

I’ve shared this fact with readers before: I live in Tennessee outside Nashville, a very deep-red part of America. According to a New York Times tool that calculates the political composition of a community, only 15 percent of my neighbors are Democrats. I’ve been living here in the heart of MAGA country since Donald Trump came down the escalator. This is the world of my friends, my neighbors and many members of my family. That is perhaps why, when I’m asked what things are like now, eight years into the Trump era, I have a ready answer: Everything is normal until, suddenly, it’s not. And...

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The New Right’s Strange and Dangerous Cult of Toughness

The New Right’s Strange and Dangerous Cult of Toughness

Last month, at the , a gathering of hundreds of leaders and members of a movement that hopes to represent a new, less libertarian American right, one of the speakers, a lawyer named Josh Hammer, delivered a strange denunciation of “fusionism.” For those not steeped in the language of conservatism, fusionism refers to the alliance among economic conservatives, social conservatives, and defense hawks forged during the Reagan administration. It was designed to confront government overreach at home and the threat of Soviet tyranny abroad.Fusionism, , is “inherently effete, limp, and, as...

December 1, 2021
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Why the Atlanta Massacre Triggered a Conversation About Purity Culture

Why the Atlanta Massacre Triggered a Conversation About Purity Culture

JoinSign inShare this postWhy the Atlanta Massacre Triggered a Conversation About Purity Culturefrenchpress.thedispatch.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailMar 21, 2021Share this postWhy the Atlanta Massacre Triggered a Conversation About Purity Culturefrenchpress.thedispatch.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailIt always happens. Every time there is a mass shooting—often before we even know the number and identity of victims—there’s a desperate and immediate quest to know who was the shooter and what were his motives. Part of this is understandable, human, and necessary. When innocent women and men...

March 21, 2021
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Exclusive: Robinhood aims to allow users to buy into IPOs - sources

Exclusive: Robinhood aims to allow users to buy into IPOs - sources

By , (Reuters) - Robinhood Markets Inc is building a platform to “democratize” initial public offerings (IPOs), including its own, that would allow users of its trading app to snap up shares alongside Wall Street funds, according to people familiar with the matter.The move could further erode Wall Street’s grip on stock market flotations. It would be easier to implement for Robinhood’s own IPO, given how companies and their investment bankers tightly control allocations to investors in new listings.Currently, Robinhood users and other amateur traders cannot buy into stock of a newly listed...

March 25, 2021
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Exclusive: Robinhood aims to allow users to buy into IPOs - sources

Exclusive: Robinhood aims to allow users to buy into IPOs - sources

By , (Reuters) - Robinhood Markets Inc is building a platform to “democratize” initial public offerings (IPOs), including its own, that would allow users of its trading app to snap up shares alongside Wall Street funds, according to people familiar with the matter.The move could further erode Wall Street’s grip on stock market flotations. It would be easier to implement for Robinhood’s own IPO, given how companies and their investment bankers tightly control allocations to investors in new listings.Currently, Robinhood users and other amateur traders cannot buy into stock of a newly listed...

March 25, 2021
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Only the Church Can Truly Defeat a Christian Insurrection

Only the Church Can Truly Defeat a Christian Insurrection

JoinSign inShare this postOnly the Church Can Truly Defeat a Christian Insurrectionfrenchpress.thedispatch.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailJan 10, 2021Share this postOnly the Church Can Truly Defeat a Christian Insurrectionfrenchpress.thedispatch.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailChristianThe Atlantic’sAre you still not convinced that it’s fair to call this a Christian insurrection? I would bet that most of my readers would instantly label the exact same event Islamic terrorism if Islamic symbols filled the crowd, if Islamic music played in the loudspeakers, and if members of the crowd...

January 10, 2021
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Exclusive: Wells Fargo explores sale of asset management business - sources

Exclusive: Wells Fargo explores sale of asset management business - sources

By (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co is exploring a sale of its asset management business, in what would be the U.S. bank’s biggest shake-up since former Bank of New York Mellon chief executive Charles Scharf joined as CEO last year, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.The potential deal would illustrate how Scharf is looking at drastic moves, beyond cost cuts, as he seeks to turn Wells Fargo around following a years-old sales practices scandal. He has said he is targeting $10 billion in savings annually over the long term.Wells Fargo’s asset management arm, which managed $578...

October 23, 2020
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U.S. shale mergers accelerate, as Pioneer-Parsley deal joins roster

U.S. shale mergers accelerate, as Pioneer-Parsley deal joins roster

By , HOUSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Consolidation in the U.S. shale industry is accelerating, ratcheting up pressure on oil and gas producers to gobble up smaller rivals, analysts and executives said.Pioneer Natural Resources Co, one of the largest independent shale operators, joined the ranks of dealmakers as it announced on Tuesday a low-premium $4.5 billion buyout of Parsley Energy Inc.The coronavirus pandemic has slashed oil demand and forced struggling shale producers to cut costs. Crude prices have slid about a third this year but drillers still must invest to maintain the same rate of...

October 20, 2020
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Why We Fight So Ferociously Over the Supreme Court

Why We Fight So Ferociously Over the Supreme Court

Skip to Main ContentThis copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed byour Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contactDow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com.https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-we-fight-so-ferociously-over-the-supreme-court-11601045891 ShareBy Sept. 25, 2020 10:58 am ETIf you want to know the roots of the country’s present polarization over the Supreme Court, we have to go back. No, not to the contentious hearings for Brett...

September 28, 2020
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