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Institutional
Affiliations
American
Enterprise Institute: Scholar (1)
Manhattan
Institute for Public Policy Research: Senior Fellow, 1994-2001
(1), (4)
National
Post: Columnist since 1998 (1, 4)
The Weekly
Standard: Contributing editor since 1995 (1), (4)
National
Review Online: "David Frum's Diary"
Forbes
magazine: Columnist, 1992 (1)
Wall Street
Journal: Assistant Editor, 1989-1992 (1)
Yale University:
Visiting Lecturer, 1986 (1)
National
Public Radio (NPR): Commentator, Morning Edition (1)
Government
Posts/Panels/Commissions
Special
Assistant to the U.S. President for Economic Speechwriting:
2001-2002 (1)
Education
Yale
University: B.A. and M.A.
Harvard
Law School: J.D.
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Highlights
& Quotes
Frum,
a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, is a scholar at the American
Enterprise Institute and contributing writer for a number of rightwing
and neoconservative outlets, including the National Review Online,
the Weekly Standard, and the National Post. He is also the coauthor,
with Richard Perle,
of An End To Evil: How To Win the War on Terror (December, 2003).
Typically,
Frum uses his columns to berate proponents of same-sex marriage,
critics of the war on terrorism, anti-death penalty efforts, and
liberals in general. His blog on the National Review Online, "David
Frum's Diary," is an endless rightwing rant, spewing out blurbs
like:
"OCT.
24, 2003: THE RIGHT TO KILL
NY Times has an obtuse story about the Schiavo Florida feeding-tube
case this morning. A husband who stands to inherit a large sum of
money if his wife dies--who has a new woman and a new child in his
life--announces that his wife who cannot speak for herself does
not want to live. What will it take to make the Times and its like
see what is at stake? I have it: Somebody should name her husband,
Michael Schiavo, a director of a major U.S. corporation.Then maybe
the Times would recognize a conflict of interest when it saw one"
Or:
"[Dec.
16, 2003] LIBERAL LITERACY
I observed yesterday that while liberals like Al Franken have mocked
the idea that God called George Bush to the presidency in 2000,
the third quarter's robust economic news and now Saddam's capture,
God certainly does seem to be favoring George Bush's re-election
in 2004. This provoked a minor flood of enraged emails from some
liberal correspondents. Much as I enjoy liberal rage, I really do
have to urge these folks to engage in a little bit of that critical
thinking and lively sense of humor for which they are always crediting
themselves, and notice a joke when they see one."
Frum
landed in hot water in early 2002 after his wife, the anti-feminist
writer Danielle Crittenden, bragged to some friends in an email
that her husband came up with the phrase “axis of evil.”
The email eventually circulated to a number of press outlets. Wrote
Crittenden in the email:
Dear
all,
I
realize this is very "Washington" of me to mention but
my husband is responsible for the "Axis of Evil" segment
of Tuesday's State of the Union address. It's not often a phrase
one writes gains national notice — unless you're in advertising
of course ("The Pause that refreshes") — so I'll
hope you'll indulge my wifely pride in seeing this one repeated
in headlines everywhere!!
D
Reported
Slate.com: “[We contacted] Crittenden to confirm that she
wrote the e-mail. She asked why Chatterbox wanted to know. Chatterbox
explained that he was writing about it. Crittenden asked why Chatterbox
was writing about it. Chatterbox explained that it was newsworthy.
‘I don't see why it is newsworthy,’ she replied. ‘You
are asking about personal correspondence with friends and family.
I'm disturbed that anyone would forward personal correspondence
to you, and frankly, I think it's wrong of you to write about it.’
Sounds like a confirmation!” (3)
Frum
is the author of a number of books, including The Right Man: The
Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush (2003); How We got Here: The
70s: The Decade that Brought You Modern Live -- For Better or Worse
(2000); and Dead Right (1994), which was praised by Frank Rich of
the The New York Times as “the smartest book written from
the inside about the American conservative movement.” (2)
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