David French

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.