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David Austin French (born January 24, 1969) is an American political commentator and former attorney who has argued high-profile religious liberty cases. He is a columnist for The New York Times. Formerly a fellow at the National Review Institute and a staff writer for National Review from 2015 to 2019, French is senior editor of The Dispatch, and occasionally a contributing writer for The Atlantic. French is currently a distinguished visiting professor of public policy at Lipscomb University, his alma mater. Early life and education French was born in Opelika, Alabama. His parents were students at nearby Auburn University.French graduated summa cum laude from Lipscomb University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then went on to Harvard Law School where he graduated cum laude in 1994 with a Juris Doctor degree. Career French has served as a senior counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice and the Alliance Defending Freedom, has lectured at Cornell Law School, and spent much of his career working on religious rights issues. He served as president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). French retired from FIRE in 2005, citing plans to serve in the United States Army Reserve as a judge-advocate general officer. He left the legal practice in 2015, and became a staff writer for National Review from 2015 to 2019, and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.French has authored several books, including the non-fiction Divided We Fall (2020).French became a New York Times columnist in January 2023. LGBT issues In August 2017, French was one of several co-authors of the Nashville Statement, which affirmed "that it is sinful to approve of homosexual immorality or transgenderism and that such approval constitutes an essential departure from Christian faithfulness and witness." The statement was criticized by pro-LGBT Christians and LGBT rights activists, as well as by several conservative religious figures. In November 2022, French announced that he had "changed his mind" on the legal recognition of same-sex marriage, although stating he was still morally opposed to the matter. He wrote that his "reasoning tracked my lifelong civil libertarian beliefs" and that: Millions of Americans have formed families and live their lives in deep reliance on Obergefell being good law. It would be profoundly disruptive and unjust to rip out the legal superstructure around which they've ordered their lives. Military service French is a former major in the United States Army Reserve and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. French was deployed to Iraq in 2007 during the Iraq War, serving in Diyala Governorate as squadron judge-advocate. He was awarded a Bronze Star. Potential 2016 U.S. presidential campaign French briefly considered entering the 2016 U.S. presidential race, citing his strong moral objections to U.S. Republican Party presumptive nominee Donald Trump. He ultimately decided that he had neither the name recognition nor the financial support to mount a viable campaign. Attacks by the alt-right In 2016, French and his wife and family were the subject of online attacks when he criticized then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and the alt-right. French was bombarded with hateful tweets, including an image of his daughter in a gas chamber. Dispute with Sohrab Ahmari A dispute between French and conservative New York Post editor Sohrab Ahmari broke out in the summer of 2019 as a result of the publication of Ahmari's polemical First Things article entitled "Against David French-ism." The dispute centered on their differing opinions on how conservatives should approach cultural and political debate and issues, with Ahmari arguing for a more ideologically firm approach against French's libertarian views. Personal life French is an evangelical Christian. He is married to author Nancy French. French and his family live in Franklin, Tennessee. They have three children, including a daughter adopted from Ethiopia. Bibliography A Season for Justice: Defending the Rights of the Christian Church, Home, and School. Broadman & Holman. 2002. ISBN 0-8054-2491-1. Home and Away: A Story of Family in a Time of War. Center Street. 2011. ISBN 978-1-931722-90-2. With Nancy French. The Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can't Ignore. Howard Books. 2014. ISBN 978-1-5011-0513-5. With Jay Sekulow, Jordan Sekulow, and Robert Ash. Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation. St. Martin's Press. 2020. ISBN 978-1250201973.References External links David French at National Review David French at Ballotpedia. Discover the David French popular books. Find the top 100 most popular David French books.
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French Provincial Cooking
Elizabeth David & Juliet RennyFirst published in 1962, Elizabeth David's culinary odyssey through provincial France forever changed the way we think about food. With elegant simplicity, David explores the authe...
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Larousse Wine
David Cobbold & Sebastian Durand-VielAn expert guide to wine from the publishers of Larousse Gastronomique. This completely new and updated edition offers wideranging coverage of the key wineproducing regions of the w...
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Soul Music
Terry Pratchett"Pratchett's Discworld yarns . . . are comic masterpieces. This one, unfailingly amusing and sometimes hysterically funny, is recommended for anyone with the slightest trace of a s...
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Remembering Peasants
Patrick JoyceA landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time.“What the skeleton is to...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles DickensIntroduced by bestselling author Roddy Doyle.Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton are alike in appearance, different in character and in love with the same woman. In the midst of the F...
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The Bookseller
Mark PryorWho is killing the celebrated bouquinistes of Paris? Maxan elderly Paris bookstall owneris abducted at gunpoint. His friend, Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy, looks...
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My Paris Kitchen
David LebovitzA collection of stories and 100 sweet and savory Frenchinspired recipes from popular food blogger David Lebovitz, reflecting the way Parisians eat today and featuring lush photogra...
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A Death in Rembrandt Square
Anja de JagerGuilty until proven innocent . . .It's hard for anyone to have their work scrutinised in public. For Amsterdambased detective Lotte Meerman, listening to the Right to Justice podc...
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The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife
Agatha ChristieMaria Packington suspects her husband of having an affair. In an attempt to revitalise her marriage, she responds to an ad from Mr. Parker Pyne – who promises to provide solutions ...
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Hogfather
Terry Pratchett"Exceptionally amusing and enjoyable." Michael Moorcock'Twas the night before Hogswatch and all through the house . . . something was missing. Don't miss this hilarious and irrever...
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Dear Fatty
Dawn FrenchA SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERThe hilarious and heartwarming memoir from one of Britain's bestloved comedians and Women's Prize longlisted author, Dawn French.Dawn French is ...
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M. Butterfly
David Henry HwangWinner of the Tony Award for Best Play, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor, starring ...
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A Killing at Cotton Hill
Terry ShamesThe chief of police of Jarrett Creek, Texas, doubles as the town drunk. So when Dora Lee Parjeter is murdered, her old friend and former police chief Samuel Craddock steps in. He d...
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A Cold Death in Amsterdam
Anja de JagerThe first Lotte Meerman mystery Amsterdambased Lotte Meerman is a cold case detective recovering from the emotional devastation of her previous investigation. She is angry and ment...
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Closed Casket
Sophie Hannah & Agatha ChristieHercule Poirot, the world's most famous detective, returns in this ingenious, stylish, and altogether delicious mystery from the author of the instant bestseller The Monogram Murde...
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Hungry
Jeff GordinierA food critic chronicles four years spent traveling with René Redzepi, the renowned chef of Noma, in search of the most tantalizing flavors the world has to offer. “If yo...
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The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton
Allan Mclane Hamilton & Willard Sterne RandallThe life of Alexander Hamilton is certainly one of great complexity and controversy and, as a result, has been of great interest to the general public for centuries. In the past tw...
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The Best Thing That Never Happened To Me
Laura Tait & Jimmy RiceEveryone remembers their first love.Holly certainly remembers Alex. But she decided ten years ago that love wasn’t about mix tapes and seizing the moment – though she’s not exactly...
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Death on the Canal
Anja de Jager'. . . a novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience' Sunday TimesWhere do your loyalties lie? With the truth or with your collea...
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Wyrd Sisters
Terry PratchettIn Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters, Granny Weatherwax teams with two other witchesNanny Ogg and Margat Garlickas an unlikely alliance to save a prince and restore him to t...
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Two Lives of Charlemagne
Einhard & Notker the Stammerer,Einhard's Life of Charlemagne is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it d...
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The Sweet Life in Paris
David LebovitzFrom the New York Times bestselling author of My Paris Kitchen and L'Appart, a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, a...
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To Build a Fire
Christophe ChaboutéA 2019 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST ADAPTATION FROM ANOTHER MEDIUMFrom the “master of black and white” artwork (Paste Magazine) and the bestselling illustratorstoryteller of Park ...
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The Case of the Discontented Soldier
Agatha ChristieWhen civilian life proves too dull for Major Wilbrahams, he contacts Parker Pyne to escape his boredom. Pyne's assistant arranges a chance meeting with the beautiful Freda Clegg an...
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Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman“Neil Gaiman is undoubtedly one of the modern masters of fantasy writing....For those who have not read Neverwhere, the new edition is the one to read, and is a fitting introd...
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Hickory Dickory Dock
Agatha ChristieA most unusual series of crimes at a student hostel intrigues Inspector Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie’s Hickory Dickory Dock, especially when a simple case of kleptomania paves...
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Never Coming Back
Tim WeaverA bestseller in the UK, this gripping thriller of a family that vanishes into thin air is Tim Weaver’s American debut Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie’s house to find t...
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The Exorcist Legacy
Nat SegaloffThe definitive, fascinating story of the scariest film ever made and its enduring impact in Hollywood and beyondfrom the director’s biographer comes a mustread for horror fans and ...
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Alanatomy
Alan CarrIf you loved Alan's first memoir Look Who It Is! then his followup, Alanatomy, will take you further into the hilarious and bizarre world of the country's favourite chatty man.'A...
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Death at the Orange Locks
Anja de Jager'A novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience' Sunday Times Keeping it in the family...After her painful divorce four years ago,...
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The Poetry of Petrarch
Petrarch & David YoungIneffable sweetness, bold, uncanny sweetnessthat came to my eyes from her lovely face; from that day on I'd willingly have closed them, never to gaze again at lesser beauties.from ...
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The Kingdom of Zydeco
Michael Tisserand & Buckwheat Zydeco“An important book for anyone with an interest in life, American music, Southern culture, dancing, accordions, the recording industry, folklore, old dance clubs in the weeds, fortu...
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Ghosted
Nancy FrenchA riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influencefrom the foothills of Appalachia all the way to the White House.New York Times b...
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A Cold Case in Amsterdam Central
Anja de JagerHaving been shot in the shoulder in the line of duty, Dutch police detective Lotte Meerman returns to work after four months of painful recovery yet not all her colleagues are hap...
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The Affair of the Pink Pearl
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are Partners in Crimeor rather partners in crime solvingand must demonstrate their deductive skills in a wide range of conf...
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The Lost
Mari Hannah'Nobody understands the many faces of cops better than Mari Hannah.' Val McDermid'Mari Hannah writes with a sharp eye and a dark heart.' Peter James'Thrilling, exciting and kept me...
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New French Table
Emily Roux & Giselle Roux'From traditional family feasts to delightful simple snacks, this is a book to make mealtimes special' Michel Roux JrSimple family food forms the heart of French gastronomy. In Ne...
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The Wines of Spain
Julian JeffsThe transformation of the Spanish wine industry over the last 20 years has been astonishing. From a state of very considerable decay it has reinvented itself with great vigour and ...
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Operation Valuable Fiend
Albert LulushiIn 1949, a newly minted branch of the CIA (the precursor of today’s National Clandestine Service), flush with money and burning with determination to roll back the Iron Curtain, em...
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The Night That Changed Everything
Laura Tait & Jimmy RiceRebecca is the only girl she knows who didn't cry at the end of Titanic. Ben is the only man he knows who did. Rebecca’s untidy but Ben doesn’t mind picking up her pieces. Ben is l...