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NY Times hires French as Opinion columnist

David French

David French, a writer and legal scholar, will join The New York Times as an Opinion columnist. He begins on Jan. 30.

Recently French helped launch The Dispatch, was a contributor at The Atlantic, and wrote for the National Review from 2015 to 2019.

French spent most of his career as a practicing lawyer, with an emphasis on the First Amendment, and has also served in the U.S. Army.

He also taught at Cornell Law School and was the former president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. He has litigated constitutional cases in federal courts from coast to coast.

French earned his undergraduate degree from Lipscomb University in Nashville and his law degree from Harvard.

You can congratulate French on Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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