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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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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Mary Beard and Why America Isn’t Rome (And Why That Matters) | The David Frum Show

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Crazy to think it will be easier to elect a friend of Israel as president of any Eastern European country than as the next congressperson from midtown Manhattan.

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

@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

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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...

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Caitlin Dickerson and How ICE Became Trump’s Secret Army | The David Frum Show

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Americans are paying over 20% more for coffee under Trump than under Biden. When Trump brags about tariff collections, he's bragging about his tax on your cup. Good morning!

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Audio has posted of this week's David Frum Show; video a little later this morning (ET). Subscribe! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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How ICE Became Trump’s Secret Army

Podcast Episode · The David Frum Show · 08/20/2025 · 57m

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Americans are paying over 20% more for coffee under Trump than under Biden. When Trump brags about tariff collections, he's bragging about his tax on your cup.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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!

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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...

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The Limits of Recognition

The move by several states to recognize Palestine will not end conflict in the Middle East—or at home.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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...

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Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman on Why Housing Feels Hopeless | The David Frum Show

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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...

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Why Housing Feels Hopeless, with Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman | The David Frum Show

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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...

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The David Frum Show - YouTube

To defend democracy, one has to believe in it. To believe in democracy, one has to understand it. Where it came from. How it works. What’s true. What’s not. ...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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...

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David Frum: Carney recognizing Palestinian statehood and its diplomatic consequences

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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...

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Trump’s Tariff Disaster

Doug Irwin, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, on Trump’s trade war, the myth of protectionism, and what history teaches us about tariffs

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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...

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Trump’s Tariff Disaster

Doug Irwin, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, on Trump’s trade war, the myth of protectionism, and what history teaches us about tariffs

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Tariffs are a systematic attack on American prosperity. The arguments presented for tariffs are a sustained insult to American intelligence.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

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...

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The David Frum Show - YouTube

To defend democracy, one has to believe in it. To believe in democracy, one has to understand it. Where it came from. How it works. What’s true. What’s not. ...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Tariffs tariffs tariffs on tomorrow's David Frum Show. Subscribe now on your favorite platform. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/the...

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The David Frum Show

Making sense instead of making noise

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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-...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Trump's new story is that he fell out with Jeffrey Epstein because Trump's most valued employees preferred to go work for a notorious sex offender rather than stay with Trump.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Trump first term message: "Liberal tears and higher wages." Trump second term message: "Higher taxes on everything you buy to finance my Epstein cover-up and retirement cash-out."

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The new socialism owes a lot to Trump's discrediting of trade and markets. Latest in @theAtlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Trump Is Making Socialism Great Again

Capitalism needs better advocates.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

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...

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What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

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...

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Socialism Was Dead. Trump Revived It.

Capitalism needs better advocates.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

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...

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Socialism Was Dead. Trump Revived It.

Capitalism needs better advocates.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

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...

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Socialism Was Dead. Trump Revived It.

Capitalism needs better advocates.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

China is plunging off the population cliff www.ft.com/content/8271...

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/07/2025

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”:

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The Fight for the Political Center

It’s not enough for the center left to oppose the far left, Representative Ritchie Torres tells David Frum—it needs to offer solutions to problems such as the affordability crisis. Subscribe and watch the full episode of “The David Frum Show”:

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Thanks to all who attended the fundraiser last night for the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital - and for the warm welcome to me and my wife, Danielle.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Rep. Richie Torres: can the Democratic center prevail against the far left? Latest on the David Frum Show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kIS...

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Ritchie Torres and the Fight for the Political Center | The David Frum Show

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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...

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How Bad Is the State of American Politics, Really? (Making Sense #426)

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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/...

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Hoekstra calls out the quiet

"There's no advocates for the Canadian-American relationship."

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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...

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Ritchie Torres and the Fight for the Political Center | The David Frum Show

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Next acts of the drama: 1) Trump pardons Ghislaine Maxwell 2) Maxwell affirms Trump's version of events 3) MAGA is astonished and offended that non-MAGA suspects a quid pro quo

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Russia helped Trump in 2016. Trump welcomed the help. The help made a difference to the election outcome. Some deny those facts because they are motivated to protect Trump. Others deny the facts because they are motivated to protect Russia. But the facts are what they are.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Richard Nixon & Co. explain Trump' Epstein comms strategy in a tape-record conversation, March 22. 1973: www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/defaul...

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Trump foreign policy: "When we sign a trade agreement with another country, we retain the right to renege at any time." Trump domestic policy: "When we strike a budget agreement with the other party, we retain the right to renege at any time."

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