David Frum

How the Munk Debate between Steve Bannon and David Frum should have gone

Opinion: Tabatha Southey envisions ‘The Best of All Possible Worlds Wherein the Munk Debates Still Didn’t Figure Out That Inviting Bannon Was A Bad Idea’

The real problem with David Frum debating Steve Bannon

Stephen Maher: Bannon should be challenged over his weak ideas. But the defender of liberalism chosen for this event is Frum, who is not a liberal.

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David Frum: Donald Trump is a threat to Western democracy

The conservative commentator and author warns that ‘Trump-like events’ are proliferating around the world, not just in Washington

David Frum: Why Canada has escaped the ‘Trump Effect.’ For now.

Good policy and some luck have allowed Canada to evade the ‘Trump Effect’, argues the conservative commentator, but that could change.

How populism is pulling America’s parties apart

David Frum and Peter Beinart weigh in on the forces transforming both Democrats and Republicans

David Frum on why Donald Trump cannot win

The senior editor of The Atlantic magazine decodes Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric and why Trump is doomed to fail

‘A Princess Diana moment’: David Frum on refugees and response

The Canadian-born author tells Evan Solomon why he thinks politicians are failing in their duty to protect, and that Europe should close its harbours

Are we better off without the Reform Act?

Maybe we are. Unless we aren’t.

The new anti-Trudeau book: I’m in there, just not recognizably

Finding your name in the index of a real, honest-to-goodness, hardcover book, especially if you toil making short-lived works of journalism, is generally an ego-replenishing moment. So it was for me—if only fleetingly—when I saw a little something I’d written cited in Bob Plamandon’s The Truth About Trudeau, the Conservative commentator’s newly published bid to “set the record straight” about Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

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What we’re talking about when we talk about Mark Warawa

We’re talking about abortion, but also Parliament

Obama’s Polish blunder

The outrage in Poland over Obama’s passing remark is hard to exaggerate

Double Frum on the Hill

Sen. Linda Frum held a special reception on the Hill for her brother David Frum, a journalist, writer and former speechwriter for George W. Bush. The occasion was the launch of her brother’s new book Patriots.