David French: Our Religious Freedoms Are Not Hanging by a Thread
The Bulwark Podcast
The Bulwark
4.6 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ ? minutes
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New York Times-bound David French tells Charlie Sykes how he re-thought same-sex marriage, how he felt he was living in a bubble, and how religious liberty is more strongly protected than it's ever been. Plus, the inevitability of George Santos.
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| 0:46.1 | Welcome to the BowWork podcast. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm Charlie Sykes. |
| 0:48.6 | It is Tuesday, January 17th, and we are fortunate enough to be joined once again by a good friend, David French, who is about to make a big move. |
| 1:00.1 | Later this month will become the latest opinion columnist for the New York Times. |
| 1:05.8 | David, congratulations first of all on that. |
| 1:08.6 | Thanks. I'm incredibly honored and grateful for the opportunity. |
| 1:12.6 | But yeah, that's going to be a big change. |
| 1:14.8 | So how many times a week will you be writing for the Times? |
| 1:16.9 | It'll be twice a week. I'll have a newsletter and I'll have a column. |
| 1:20.7 | You know, the column will be, you know, more your 800,000 words, kind of normal op-ed length. |
| 1:26.0 | And the newsletter will be where I can really explore things. |
| 1:29.9 | So it'll be very similar, you know, to the stuff that I write about now. |
| 1:33.9 | So I'm really looking forward to it. |
| 1:36.1 | Although the New York Times slack may be a little bit different than the dispatch. |
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