When all is said and done, history is not likely to remember David French as a great political commentator or a particularly insightful opinion journalist or even as a good man who endured considerable public opprobrium for taking principled but unpopular positions on important issues. Indeed, history is not likely to remember David French at all. Like most of us, he will be entirely forgotten by all but a handful of friends and family.
That’s not to say, however, that French is unimportant or irrelevant to the broader public discourse in the West today. He actually matters a great deal—albeit not for any of his own intellectual contributions. Rather, French is important because his personal/professional/moral arc demonstrates the pervasiveness and perniciousness of the moral misconceptions that dominate our civilization and help explain its proverbial “fall from grace.”
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