David J. Frum
Gender	male
Born	1960
Birth place	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Education	University of Toronto Schools (1978); Yale University (1982); Harvard Law School (1987)
Circumstances
Occupation	Journalist, author, political speechwriter
Marital status	married
Family	son of Barbara Frum (mom) and Murray Frum (dad)
Spouse	Danielle Crittenden
Ethnicity	Jewish/Caucasian - Canadian
Notable credit(s)	Senior editor at the American Prospect[1]; previously a senior writer at the Washington City Paper; work has also appeared in The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and Salon; frequent guest on BloggingHeads.tv

David J. Frum (born 1960) is a former economic speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and the author of the first "insider" book about the Bush presidency. He remains involved in political activities in both the United States and Canada, and his editorial columns have appeared in a variety of Canadian and American magazines and newspapers. ^[2] If you hold the copyright to an image (e. ... This article is about the Male sex. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 107 Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area... UTS on Bloor Street (the entrance is undergoing construction work by film crews in preparation for filming for Take the Lead, starring Antonio Banderas) The University of Toronto Schools (UTS) (founded in 1910) is an independent secondary school in downtown Toronto, Canada. ... Yale redirects here. ... Harvard Law School (colloquially, Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... For other uses, see Journalist (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Author (disambiguation). ... Barbara Frum Barbara Frum, OC , BA , LL.D (September 8, 1937 – March 26, 1992) was one of Canadas most respected and influential journalists, a legendary news anchor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... Danielle Ann Crittenden (born April 20, 1963, Toronto, Canada), a Canadian author and journalist. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The American Prospect is a monthly magazine which focuses on US politics and public policy. ... The Washington City Paper is a U.S. alternative weekly newspaper serving the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. ... The Washington Monthly is a monthly magazine of United States politics and government that is based in Washington, DC. Its founder is Charles Peters, who started the magazine in 1969 and continues to write columns occasionally. ... For other uses, see New Republic. ... Salon. ... BloggingHeads. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the pop band, see Presidents of the United States of America. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...

Background

Born to a Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Frum is the son of Barbara Frum, one of Canada's most respected and influential journalists. His father, Murray Frum is a multi-millionaire real estate developer and his sister, Linda Frum is a journalist. David Frum is married to writer Danielle Crittenden, the step-daughter of former Toronto Sun editor Peter Worthington. The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 107 Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area... Barbara Frum Barbara Frum, OC , BA , LL.D (September 8, 1937 – March 26, 1992) was one of Canadas most respected and influential journalists, a legendary news anchor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... Linda Frum is a Canadian journalist. ... Danielle Ann Crittenden (born April 20, 1963, Toronto, Canada), a Canadian author and journalist. ... The Toronto Sun is an English language daily newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Peter Worthington (born February 16, 1927) is a Canadian journalist. ...

He graduated from the University of Toronto Schools in 1978 where he was the School Captain. He then attended Yale University in 1982 where he earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts and then Harvard Law School in 1987 . He served as an editor on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal from 1989 until 1992, and then as a columnist for Forbes magazine in 1992-94. UTS on Bloor Street (the entrance is undergoing construction work by film crews in preparation for filming for Take the Lead, starring Antonio Banderas) The University of Toronto Schools (UTS) (founded in 1910) is an independent secondary school in downtown Toronto, Canada. ... School Captain is a student elected, or appointed, to represent the school. ... Yale redirects here. ... Harvard Law School (colloquially, Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ...

From 1994 through 2000 he was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research.

Following the election of George W. Bush in 2000, Frum was appointed to a position within the White House. Still a Canadian citizen, he was one of the few foreign nationals working within the Bush White House. He served as Special Assistant to the U.S. President for Economic Speechwriting from January 2001 to February 2002. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...

Frum strongly supported John Roberts, George W. Bush's nominee for Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. However, like many conservatives, he opposed the nomination of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court, on the grounds that she was insufficiently qualified for the post, as well as insufficiently conservative. This article is about the Chief Justice of the United States. ... The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., (large image) The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States... Harriet Ellan Miers (born August 10, 1945 in Dallas, Texas) is an American lawyer, and former White House Counsel. ...

David Frum now speaks on behalf of the American Enterprise Institute along with Frederick Kagan on CNN. The American Enterprise Institutes Logo The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a neoconservative think tank, founded in 1943. ...

On October 11, 2007, Frum announced on his blog that he was joining Rudolph Giuliani's presidential campaign as a senior foreign policy adviser.^{[3] [4]} Rudolph William Louis Rudy Giuliani III, KBE (born May 28, 1944) served as the Mayor of New York City from January 1, 1994 through December 31, 2001. ...

Writings

His first book, Dead Right, was released in 1994. The New York Times called it "...the smartest book written from the inside about the American conservative movement." He is the author also of What's Right (1996) and How We Got Here a history of 1970s published in 2000. The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ...

In January 2003, he released The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, the first insider account of the Bush presidency. Frum is widely cited as having authored the phrase "axis of evil," which he discusses in his book. In fact, though, his original phrasing was "axis of hatred". As the title suggests, Frum also discusses how the events of September 11, 2001 redefined the country and the President. Frum writes, "George W. Bush was hardly the obvious man for the job. But by a very strange fate, he turned out to be, of all unlikely things, the right man." For the movie Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil, see Behind Enemy Lines II. For cosmic anisotropy, see Anisotropy#Physics. ... The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ...

Frum's latest book, An End to Evil, was co-written with Richard Perle. It provided a defense of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and advocated regime change in Iran and Syria. Furthermore, it called for a tougher policy with North Korea, as well as advocating a tougher U.S. stance against Saudi Arabia and other Islamic nations in order to "win the war on terror" (the book's by-line). Fareed Zakaria critiqued it in a New York Times Sunday Book Review essay,^[5] writing that "To transform the world, you do actually need to engage in it." Richard Norman Perle (born 16 September 1941 in New York City) is an American political advisor and lobbyist who worked for the Reagan administration as an assistant Secretary of Defense and worked on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004. ... This article is about the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ... Islam (Arabic: ; ( ▶ (help· info)), the submission to God) is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions and the worlds second-largest religion. ... Fareed Zakaria (born January 20, 1964, Mumbai, India) is a journalist, columnist, author, editor, commentator, and television host specializing in international relations and foreign affairs. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

Frum writes a weekly column for Canada's National Post newspaper and is a commentator for American Public Radio's "Marketplace." His writings appear frequently in the New York Times, Italy's Il Foglio, and the Daily Telegraph. He also writes a blog, David Frum's Diary at the National Review Online Web site. National Review Online is the online presence of the prominent conservative political magazine National Review. ...

Political views

On abortion, Frum has stated that he "is not pro-life" and "think[s] abortion ought to be legal in the first trimester and generally illegal thereafter", but believes in state-by-state regulations on the matter.^[6]

Other opinions

• Political novels he likes: "I think Primary Colors [by Joe Klein] is one of the very best novels ever written about American politics, fully the equal of The Last Hurrah [by Edwin O'Connor]. (All the King's Men [by Robert Penn Warren] is in a class by itself.)"^[7]

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Criticism

David Frum published a denouncement of paleoconservatives in 2003, saying: The term paleoconservative (sometimes shortened to paleo or paleocon when the context is clear) refers to an American branch of conservative Old Right thought that stands against both the mainstream tradition of the National Review magazine and the neoconservatives. ...

"War is a great clarifier. It forces people to take sides. The paleoconservatives have chosen — and the rest of us must choose too. In a time of danger, they have turned their backs on their country. Now we turn our backs on them."^[8]

Frum has been accused misrepresenting Canadian crime statistics in order to falsely portray crime in Canada as increasing in profusion and severity while the crime rate in the United States is dropping,^[9] in attempting to argue that the "liberal" Canadian gun and crime control policies of Paul Martin's government did not work as well as the corresponding (more conservative) policies of the United States. Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, PC, MP, BA, LLB, LLD (h. ...

Bibliography

• An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror (with Richard Perle), 2004 (ISBN 1-4000-6194-6)
• The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, 2003 (ISBN 0-375-50903-8)
• How We Got Here: The 70's: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life--For Better or Worse, 2000 (ISBN 0-465-04196-5)
• What's Right: The New Conservative Majority and the Remaking of America, 1997 (ISBN 0-465-04198-1)
• Dead Right, 1994 (ISBN 0-465-09825-8)

Richard Norman Perle (born 16 September 1941 in New York City) is an American political advisor and lobbyist who worked for the Reagan administration as an assistant Secretary of Defense and worked on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004. ...

References

1. ^ http://www.prospect.org/cs/author?id=820
2. ^ David Frum: Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute website, 2005
3. ^ David Frum, "Rudy & Me," post at David Frum's Diary blog
4. ^ Disclosure at the end of "Make speech free, and all else follows", published in the National Post on October 20, 2007.
5. ^ Showing Them Who's Boss
6. ^ David Frum. "Partial Birth II", National Review, November 12, 2003. Retrieved on April 23. 
7. ^ [1]Frum, David, "This is Bill Buckley's Magazine After All ..." post at "David Frum's Diary" blog at National Review Online Web site, January 25, logged at 12:16 p.m., accessed same day
8. ^ http://www.nationalreview.com/frum/frum031903.asp
9. ^ [2]The Ottawa Citizen; February 15, 2006; By Dan Gardner

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External links

• David Frum's website
• David Frum's Diary blog at National Review Online
• "Proud wife turns 'axis of evil' speech into a resignation letter", Matthew Engel, The Guardian, February 27, 2002
• A critical review of An End to Evil by Pat Buchanan, The American Conservative, March 1, 2004
• A critical review of An End to Evil" by Gary Kamiya, Salon.com, January 30, 2004
• Video discussions[3] [4] [5] [on BloggingHeads.tv]

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Videos

• Conservatives and the World Online conference where David Frum defends US policy in Iraq and the Middle East but predicts the end of Republican dominance of the White House. Part of the conference Conservative Predominance in the U.S. : A Moment or an Era ? Videos and texts online.