David Frum

06.01.13

Margaret Thatcher, Voice of the Future

Charles Moore is a master of deadpan. His admiration for Margaret Thatcher does not inhibit his awareness of the comic side of her personality.

05.31.13

My Eulogy for My Father, Murray Frum

My name is David Frum.

05.27.13

Murray Bernard Frum, 1931-2013

My late mother was only 19 when my father asked her to marry him, young even by the standards of the 1950s.

03.25.13

No, the 2nd Amendment Does Not Authorize Armed Sedition

This weekend I posted a book club entry about Adam Winkler’s important history of US gun law, Gunfight.

03.17.13

Privacy Was Good While It Lasted

To be a politician today is to live in some ways like a citizen of North Korea.

03.15.13

The Speechwriter

My youngest daughter was born in December 2001: a war baby.

03.11.13

Mystery Man

One hundred years ago this week, Woodrow Wilson took the oath of office, and still, after all this time, Americans cannot make up their minds about him.

02.15.13

The Might-Have-Beens

Presidents’ Day honors the two greatest presidents in U.S. history: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

02.12.13

What We Don't Know About Love and Loneliness

Americans exactingly measure everything that pertains to their material well-being. But when it comes time to assess the things that matter most — human well-being and happiness — there we find ourselves baffled.

01.20.13

Why Inaugural Speeches Mostly Fail

The inaugural addresses of the presidents are, for the most part, a wasteland of howling rhetoric and dried-out inspiration.