David French

The people are not always right. Moral courage is always necessary in leadership. And we cannot ever think that we have permanently vanquished the ideas that Trump and so many others before him have used to lead so many Americans astray. nytimes.com/2024/11/03/opi…

America's misery or riches. @DavidAFrench writes how Americans feel they are in Boarding Group 9 when it comes to the economy. tinyurl.com/2eb5w8vh

The shingles vaccine is linked to a significantly lower risk of major cardiovascular events in people with existing heart disease. Vaccinated individuals had reduced risks across multiple outcomes, including heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and death. medicalnewstoday.com/articles/shing…

This speaks well of the Bible Society's integrity, especially that they repeatedly pressed YouGov when they had suspicions about the data.

The American economy is the envy of the world. Actual Americans, however, are not happy about their economy, and they’ve been unhappy about it for a long time. Here's why both these statements can be true at once: nytimes.com/2026/03/26/opi…

What the Trumpoids never understood is that the swing voters who decide elections didn't love Trump the way they do. They just hated the Democrats. And now they hate Trump. All the "landslide" and "Golden Age" talk was always delusional and the awakening is going to be a rude one

The Meta ruling is bad, no matter how much you dislike Meta or how much New Mexico tries to pretend its about "product design" It's an attempt to get around Section 230 (& 1A) protections, hold platforms liable for user speech, do universal age verification & end encrypted msg

Hilarious.

@McCormackJohn @lwmccormack Wonderful! Congratulations!

Catherine Teresa McCormack was born earlier this month. She is uniquely and perfectly wonderful, and now there is obviously a tie for the best gift @lwmccormack and I have ever received.

I'm concerned about this verdict and the overall trend of treating speech platforms as addictive — and therefore dangerous — products. Also, the verdict diminishes the responsibility parents have to raise healthy kids. For example: "Kaley says she began using YouTube at age 6 and Instagram at age 9 and told the jury she was on social media 'all day long' as a child." Where were the parents?

A fascinating answer from Gen Stan McChrystal to the NY Times on what he thinks about War Secretary Pete Hegseth's bravado culture. Worth remembering he commanded a green beret platoon, an airborne battalion and a Ranger regiment, before running Joint Special Operations Command.

Two weeks ago, I mentioned the problems with CPAC. The head of CPAC, Matt Schlapp, has been accused multiple times of inappropriate sexual behavior towards other men. Undeterred from running the Conservative Political Action Conference, Schlapp has invited Steve Bannon on stage. Bannon was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s friends and attempted to rehabilitate Epstein’s image. Now CPAC is announcing Todd Chrisley will be at CPAC. If you don’t know who that guy is, he got sentenced to twelve years in prison for tax evasion and then got pardoned by Donald Trump. Before all that, he was a reality TV star. The “C” in CPAC is now best represented by the world “clown” than as any semblance of a conservative institution. ewerickson.substack.com/p/reaping-the-…

Hilarious. Reacher Season Four.

Really excellent interview of @StanMcChrystal by @DavidAFrench. McChrystal offering thoughtful responses and perspectives that are too often overlooked in our policy-making and even reporting on war. nytimes.com/2026/03/23/opi…

The volume of absolute lies about religion happening on social media right now is just staggering. I'm not a conspiracy theorist but this is just bizarre. The 2023 Cooperative Election Study was an outlier. There are not more Catholics in Gen Z than Protestants.

🏮 Another population-level study finds no evidence whatsoever of that healthy younger individuals given COVID-19 vaccines had increased risk of "dying suddenly", i.e. with sudden cardiac deaths. Researchers in Toronto just published a study in PLOS Medicine assessing whether risk of sudden cardiac death was increased after COVID-19 vaccination in healthy young people 12-50yrs old. The study was a population-based matched case-control study from a cohort of 14,966,193 residents of Ontario, Canada, focusing on the subset of 6,365,451 who were <50yrs and "healthy", with no medical history of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, mental illness, dementia, COPD, IBD, chronic liver or kidney disease, autoimmune disease, or alcohol or illicit drug use. Cases included 4,803 individuals from that cohort who "died suddenly" between April 1, 2021 and June 30, 2023, meaning they either died outside the hospital or died in ER or within 24hr of admission with indication of cardiac arrest, sudden death or arrhythmia but no indication of trauma, mental illness or substance use. Controls included 24,030 individuals matched 5:1 to cases in terms of age, sex, geographic area, and neighborhood income quintile, with their index data set to death date of matched case. After matching, all of these variables were well-balanced between cases and controls. The primary analysis was a conditional logistic regression to assess association of case/control status with vaccination status (any vaccine), with covariate-adjustment for confounders including COVID-19 infection, influenza vaccination, number of SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests to estimate COVID healthcare utilization, and history of asthma, hypertension and mood/anxiety disorders. Many sensitivity analyses were done including separate analyses for vaccine types, focusing on the 6wk period after vaccination, focusing only on ER/hospital deaths with cause well-documented, excluding any opioid deaths, focusing on <=40yrs old, plus a secondary self-controlled case series comparing the 6wk after doses 1/2/3 to other time periods to perform an assessment free from any subject-level residual confounders such as healthcare utilization or other factors related to healthy vaccinee effect. In the primary analysis, 77.1% of controls received any COVID-19 vaccine before the index date, while only 67.4% of cases did, which resulted in an adjusted odds ratio of 0.57 (95% CI 0.53-0.61), suggesting a 43% reduced risk of sudden death in the vaccinated group. All secondary analyses found similar results, with vaccinated having lower risk of sudden death than unvaccinated, with some statistically significant and some not. None of the analyses had any indication whatsoever that risk of sudden death was increased after vaccination, either in the short or long term. This validates results from two earlier UK studies using self-controlled case series that found no increased risk of sudden cardiac death within 4wks (Nafilyan et al. 2023 Nature Communications PMID: 36973247) or 12wks (Xu et al. 2024 Vaccine PMID: 38388239) after COVID-19 vaccination. So, in spite of all of the repeated claims on social media and in videos purporting major increased risk in sudden cardiac death after COVID-19 vaccination, the population-level data continue to strongly refute these claims.

@LilaGraceRose I’m so sorry, Lila! Praying.

Please pray for our son (4 years old) who is very sick 🙏

General Stanley McChrystal to @DavidAFrench: “I think, in this case, we again fell for the seduction that if we bomb key targets, we will produce the outcome we want—but the outcome’s in the minds of the people.” nytimes.com/2026/03/23/opi…

This is a must-read interview. @DavidAFrench and General Stanley McChrystal on the three seductions of the American way of war. 1/6

Everyone is fixating on the corruption of military insiders enriching themselves with the inside information they have. But that's not even close to the nightmare scenario. The real danger is military insiders *manipulating world events* to win Polymarket bets.

RIP Sora, you gave us the greatest ai video of all time