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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 [email protected] DMs open to followers
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Perceptive and informative by Kapil Komireddi about Polish election in @unherd.com unherd.com/2025/06/is-t...

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Opening monologue on Trump corruption, Episode 8 of the David Frum Show www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XAN...

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Hamas did the crime, then persuaded credulous western media to fix blame on Israel for its own action

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New report that Trump wants Fox News to produce his intelligence brief because he won't/can 't read-anticipated on the David Frum Show by ⁦Ambassador Susan Rice⁩ www.instagram.com/reel/DJ74qgQ...

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Read the whole story quoted today on ABC Sunday morning show today www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The future of American politics Option 1: Anti-Israel socialist crank Option 2: Pro-Trump crook Option 3: Guy who should have retired 10 years ago.

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Over 100,000 YouTube views in 48 hours for this dialogue: George Packer on J. D. Vance’s Bargain With the Devil | The David Frum Show - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XAN...

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Congratulations to Nathaniel Frum, whose "Calls From a KIller" is now the Number 3 series in any category on Apple US podcast charts! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

President Trump and his family are extorting billions of dollars from US companies and foreign nations. In new piece for @TheAtlantic I examine past US corruption - and conclude Trump can't be compared to anything American, only Russia or Africa. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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David on TVOntario "The Agenda." I've known host @spaikin.bsky.social for many years, and he pressed me vigorously on where my views have shifted and where they have not www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdZQ...

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More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging www.propublica.org/article/us-o...

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Natan Sharansky famously divided the world into "free societies" and "fear societies." Under Trump, the United States seems to making the sad transition from the first into the second.

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"Too long at war": powerful column by Thomas Friedman about Israel in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/o...

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Episode 8 of the David Frum Show releases tonight, midnight ET. Last look at Episode 7 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNLb...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

I'll join MSNBC Dateline White House at 4 pm ET today to discuss Trump tariffs and Trump corruption

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

We here highly resolve that government of the criminals, by the criminals, and for the criminals shall not perish from the earth. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...

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More anti-Jewish violence on London streets and public transit www.thejc.com/news/uk/jewi...

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Fascinating by @jonathanbchait.bsky.social on why the seemingly commonsensical "abundance agenda" has so divided and polarized Democrats and the liberal-left www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Episode 7 of the David Frum Show with Susan Rice. Episode 8 will post midnight ET tonight. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform! www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

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My father, Murray Frum, passed from this earth 12 years ago tomorrow. I delivered this eulogy at his memorial service. davidfrum.com/article/my-e...

submitted 12 days ago • 32 comments

@davidfrum.bsky.social as a longtime @theatlantic.com subscriber The David Frum podcast is a welcome addition to the pc landscape. Whether a fan of Susan Rice or not this is a great interview which provides insightful pov from someone with tremendous inside experience. Hope more ppl will listen.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

David Frum Show episode with former National Security Adviser Susan Rice nearing 100,000 YouTube views www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zdz...

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2025 is also the 250th anniversary of the US Navy and the US Marine Corps - but their founding dates don't coincide with El Jefe Maximo's birthday party, so no parade for them.

submitted 15 days ago • 51 comments

Ambassador Susan Rice on the David Frum Show: China calls Trump's bluff www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zdz...

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Via South African agricultural economist Wandile Sihlobo, new statistics on farm killings in South Africa from the ministry of justice. In fourth quarter 2024, there were 6 farm killings, only 1 of the victims was white.

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I was drawn into conservative and Republican politics because I learned from Hayek; and now am repelled because I learned from Hayek.

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Arbitrary executive power wielded for personal enrichment and retribution. State central planning imposed by ever-fluctuating whim. Vast debt financing at rapidly rising interest rates. Markets replaced by economic warfare against fellow democracies.

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"It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody’s permission or to obey anybody’s orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.” - FA Hayek. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

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On @thehubcanada.bsky.social I discuss with Sean Speer antisemitic murders in Washington DC, President Trump's outburst to the South African president, and important new book by @acoyne.bsky.social about Canada and its democracy www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzi_...

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Dialogue with former National Security Adviser Susan Rice about to surpass 50,000 YouTube views in not even 48 hours. Join the discussion here - or listen on your favorite audio platform. And please subscribe so you get all future episodes of the David Frum Show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zdz...

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Congratulations to Nathaniel Frum and the "Call From a Killer" team: top podcast series in Canada, 2nd most downloaded single show in Canada.

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Story: Vietnam negotiating tariff relief from Trump administration. Photo: Eric Trump in Vietnam to accept a billion-dollar payoff to the Trump family from the Vietnamese government. Picture = thousand words. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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On CNN tonight vimeo.com/1086587559/9...

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About to join Erin Burnett on CNN

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About to join Katy Tur show on MSNBC

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The Constitution says that Congress must approve gifts to the president and his family from foreign potentates, but apparently the Constitution is mostly decorative these days.

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Susan Rice on the disaster Trump has made of US national security www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zdz...

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

I open Episode 7 of the David Frum Show with a rebuttal to claim that US living standards have stagnated over past 40 years www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zdz...

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

The original sin was failing to send Donald Trump to prison for the rest of his life for mounting a violent coup to overthrow the election of 2020.

submitted 18 days ago • 483 comments

After 6 episodes since kick-off last month The David Frum Show is already a Must Listen in my podcast menu.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Next episode of David Frum Show drops at midnight ET tonight, with guest Susan Rice. Among other things, we discuss her experience of manufactured scandals vs the genuine scandals of the Trump era. Subscribe on YouTube or your favorite audio platform.

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