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David Frum
@davidfrum.bsky.social
Staff writer for the Atlantic. Host of the David Frum Show webcast. Formerly ... quite a lot of things. Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario. Reach me via Producer@TheDavidFrumShow.com DMs open to followers
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My memoir of my daughter, gift link renewed. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Very glad so many people liked the Mary Beard episode of the David Frum Show. Tonight we drop audio -and tomorrow video - of a dialogue with @jonrauch.bsky.social on the connection between true knowledge and political freedom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpFF...
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@davidfrum.bsky.social on the "sick psychological dynamic of what President Trump is up to" with proceedings like the FBI raid on former national security advisor John Bolton. "This is unlike anything we've ever seen before." via @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Don't miss @caitlindickerson.bsky.social on the explosive growth of ICE under Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtSK...
The streets of the United States are patrolled - and 000s have been detained - by masked paramilitary forces who disavow due process and who demonstrate loyalty to a single political party, not the US government or Constitution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtSK...
Video of David Frum Show episode with @caitlindickerson.bsky.social now posted to YouTube. Watch, subscribe, and share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtSK...
Audio has posted of this week's David Frum Show; video a little later this morning (ET). Subscribe! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Next David Frum Show will release on audio tonight at midnight. Video will post tomorrow morning. Guest will be my @theatlantic.com colleague @caitlindickerson.bsky.social We'll discuss how under Trump, ICE is growing into 3d largest armed force on earth, after US DoD and China PLA. Subscribe!
Center-left governments in Australia, Canada, France, and UK are moving toward recognition of Palestinian statehood in hope of diminishing pro-Palestinian violence on their own soil. My latest in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Are housing costs driven by greedy developers? I asked Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin in latest episode of David Frum Show podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTAv...
New David Frum Show. Guest, Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin, "why housing feels hopeless." I open with thoughts on 80th anniversary of VJ Day. Along with the terrible war that ended August 15, 1945, let's honor the long peace that began that day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTAv...
The David Frum Show debuted April 9. We're now nearing 5 million views/audio downloads. Subscribe and join the action. Shows post every Wednesday. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
New David Frum show video just posted: Ukraine won't surrender www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1b_...
I talk in this @thehubcanada.bsky.social dialogue about the enduring power of the ancient myth: a sinless sufferer tormented by demonic Jews www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhDI...
If you want to know more about why Trump's latest round of regressive taxes on American consumers is stupid and dangerous ... here's your link. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
19th century tariffs did not accelerate US industrialization. Yes, the Great Depression was caused by US tariffs, specifically the tariffs of 1922. The "China shock" of the 2000s did not slow US growth. All this and more ... www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
Debunking Trump tariff lies on the new David Frum Show podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
On tomorrow's David Frum Show, the trade historian Douglas Irwin debunks the dumb fictions that support Donald Trump's massive tariff tax increases on working-class and middle-class Americans. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Tariffs tariffs tariffs on tomorrow's David Frum Show. Subscribe now on your favorite platform. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/the...
If Trump lost valued employees to competing offers, one reason might be his company's court-proven practice of requiring employees to participate in tax fraud in order to gain their full compensation. www.reuters.com/legal/trump-...
The new socialism owes a lot to Trump's discrediting of trade and markets. Latest in @theAtlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Qatar's gift to Donald Trump of a luxury jet for his post-presidential use will cost taxpayers almost $1 billion in carefully concealed Pentagon funds. That's money straight from your taxes to Trump's personal benefit. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
I wrote in May that Trump's corruption cannot be compared to anything in past US history, not to Watergate, not to Teapot Dome. It's analogs are found in the post-Soviet republics and post-colonial African dictatorships. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Marxist socialists say, "wealth is plunder." Trump protectionists reply, "exactly - and that's why we brought our plunder sacks with us." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Planned-economy socialism offered a (bad) answer to the question, "How will you create the social wealth you want to spend?" The new urban-boutique socialism seems not to be aware of the question at all. Latest in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
In @theatlantic.com , I try to make sense of how a doctrine as seemingly dead and dusty as socialism could make a comeback www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Today would have been my daughter Miranda's 34th birthday www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
China is plunging off the population cliff www.ft.com/content/8271...
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It’s not enough for the center left to oppose the far left, Representative Ritchie Torres tells @davidfrum.bsky.social—it needs to offer solutions to problems such as the affordability crisis. Watch the latest episode of “The David Frum Show”:
Rep. Richie Torres: can the Democratic center prevail against the far left? Latest on the David Frum Show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kIS...
In dialogue with Sam Harris, I express worry that the Trump administration is too confident that the US conflict with Iran is all over. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Po...
New York City: wants more housing, but hates house-builders. My dialogue with @repritchie.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kIS...
US Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra had the nerve to give a speech scolding Canadian business leaders for not defending US policies. It's not reasonable to ask businesspeople to jettison their intellect and integrity to defend the indefensible. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
On the episode of the David Frum Show released today, I talked to @repritchie.bsky.social about the need for "immoderate centrists." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kIS...
How anti-Israel hatred killed Canada's leading literary prize www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Richard Nixon & Co. explain Trump' Epstein comms strategy in a tape-record conversation, March 22. 1973: www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/defaul...