David Frum

David Frum

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David Frum is the author of five books, including two New York Times
bestsellers: THE RIGHT MAN: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush
(2003), and co-author with Richard Perle of AN END TO EVIL: What's Next
in the War on Terror
(2004).


Frum is the Reader's Digest resident fellow at the American Enterprise
Institute and writes a daily column for National Review Online. He
contributes frequently to the editorial pages of The New York Times and
The Wall Street Journal, as well as to Great Britain's Daily Telegraph
and Canada's National Post. He appears regularly on CNN, Fox News, and
the BBC.


In 2001-2002, David Frum served as a special assistant to President
George W. Bush. About that service, the New Yorker magazine wrote: "A
not completely crazy can be made that the most influential thinker in
the foreign-policy apparatus of the Administration of George W. Bush
during its first two years was ... a forty-two-year-old Canadian named
David Frum."


Frum's first book, Dead Right (1994), was described by William F. Buckley as "the most refreshing ideological experience in a
generation," and by Frank Rich of the New York Times as "the smartest
book written from the inside about the American conservative movement."
In 1996, The Wall Street Journal acclaimed him as "one of the leading
political commentators of his generation." In 2001, Judge Richard
Posner's study of public intellectuals listed Frum as one of the 100
most influential minds in the United States.


David Frum was born in Toronto, Canada in 1960. He received a
simultaneous BA and MA in history from Yale in 1982. He was appointed a
visiting lecturer in history at Yale in 1986; in 1987, he graduated cum
laude from the Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the
Federalist Society.


Frum lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, journalist and novelist
Danielle Crittenden Frum, and their three children.

Blog Entries by David Frum

The Content of the Controversy

16 Comments | Posted November 27, 2007 | 12:08 PM (EST)


The Washington Post yesterday ran a report on my review of Michael Gerson's Heroic Conservatism. The review itself is not yet available online. The full review deals with the consequences Gerson's approach to politics and rhetoric has had for the Bush administration. It was the first few opening...

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Vanity Fair's Inventions

Posted November 4, 2006 | 11:10 AM (EST)


There has been a lot of talk this season about deceptive campaign ads, but the most dishonest document I have seen is this press release from Vanity Fair, highlighted on the Drudge Report. Headlined "Now They Tell Us," it purports to offer an "exclusive" access to "remorseful" former supporters...

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Blogs & Memory

Posted May 9, 2005 | 12:00 AM (EST)


The Guardian tells me that my job here is to "disturb a cosy worldview." But I appreciate the invitation to post here, so maybe instead of disturbing, I'll settle for expanding.

May 9, the launch date of the Huffington Post, is also the day that President Bush joins Vladimir...

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