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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@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...
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!
Audio has posted of this week's David Frum Show; video a little later this morning (ET). Subscribe! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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.
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...
Why the Trump tariffs are failing www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv-U...
Why the economic news is bad today www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv-U...
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...
Tariffs are a systematic attack on American prosperity. The arguments presented for tariffs are a sustained insult to American intelligence.
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-...
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.
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."
The new socialism owes a lot to Trump's discrediting of trade and markets. Latest in @theAtlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump's socialism www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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...
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...
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...
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”:
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.
Latest David video for Canada's @thehubcanada.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Ch...
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...
The Trump administration has violated trade treaties - including those signed by Trump himself - to launch unprovoked and unjustifiable economic aggression against Canada. A US ambassador is paid to do PR for that outrage, but he won't find willing volunteers to help him.
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 Sam Harris podcast today www.samharris.org/podcasts/mak...
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...
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
How anti-Israel hatred killed Canada's leading literary prize www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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.
Richard Nixon & Co. explain Trump' Epstein comms strategy in a tape-record conversation, March 22. 1973: www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/defaul...
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."
MAGA thought it had a deal with Trump on Epstein story. Trump reneged. My monologue on latest David Frum Show. Plus guest Peter Strzok. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Decades of protectionist trade polices are the reason that Coca-Cola does not use real sugar in its US product. Sugar costs twice as much in the USA as in free-trade countries. sweetenerusers.org/wp-content/u...
Video for today episode of the David Frum show youtu.be/oiF9DHOBGEw
Yet another massive Russian drone attack on #Ukraine last night. More Ukrainian civilians injured,more of Ukraine damaged.A sleepless night of terror for millions of people. Russia keeps attacking Ukrainian people ◾️In Vinnytsia,civili infrastructure&an industrial object were hit.8 people injured.
Now live: episode w guest Peter Strzok podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Your library of past episodes of the David Frum show. Next episode posts midnight ET (audio only); video at 8 am ET tomorrow. Guest is Peter Strzok. We will discuss Trump hollowing out and misdirection of FBI. Plus Epstein thoughts! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
As Scooby Doo taught millions of TV watchers: if the deceased villain's best friend tells you there's nothing worth seeing inside the locked closet ... there's probably something worth seeing inside the locked closet.
Anyone who claims that Trump's trade wars are brilliant deal-making needs to reckon with the fact that he has no idea what his own objectives are. How do you negotiate with someone who doesn't know what he wants?
The David Frum show is profiled by the Picton Gazette t.co/2OHgrXbEcs
We also discuss how to do a proper pull up
Another great episode, conversation, and opinion from @davidfrum.bsky.social and @gtconway.bsky.social youtu.be/puUrR3nwoSI?...
On today's podcast, I ask @davidfrum.bsky.social to weigh in on Jeffrey Epstein's missing client list, and whether Epstein really committed suicide.
France will loan the Bayeux Tapestry to London's British Museum from September 2026 to June 2027, French President Emmanuel Macron told media at the start of a state visit to the UK. The loan will be made in exchange for archaeological treasures from Sutton Hoo, Macron told two French newspapers
Further witness accounts of Hamas use of mass sexual violence as a weapon of intended genocide www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
Ben Meiselas reports on how world leaders are beyond furious at Donald Trump’s behavior and Meiselas speaks with David Frum from The Atlantic who just launched The David Frum Show with The Atlantic and Frum shares his observations. youtu.be/GGbMeBoNvto?...
David Frum nails it: "Welcome to the Mafia Presidency" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Frum: What a tariff is, is the equivalent of hitting yourself in the head. And he’s saying to the world: “We will not stop hitting ourselves in the head unless you all agree to hit yourselves in the head.”
Next episode of The David Frum Show with guest George Conway will post at midnight ET tonight on audio platforms; 8 am ET on YouTube. We discuss how well/ill the federal courts have met the Trump challenge. Subscribe so you don't miss www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
As the Dalai Lama nears 90, the cause of Tibet has dimmed. The West has lost interest. Kapil Komireddi asks a hard question: would the Tibetans have more friends if they had followed the Palestinian example and chosen terrorism rather than Buddhist nonviolence? unherd.com/2025/07/has-...
Here is my dialogue with former US Ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink m.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Fu...
Hard to take seriously the red-white-and-blue rhetoric of freedom on a 4th of July where the US president has cut off aid to a democracy fighting for its independence against ferocious attack by a foreign tyrant.
Do Ukrainians feel that the United States is lost to them? Bridget Brink, (resigned) U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine: I don’t think they understand; many of us who are experts do not understand. David Frum: Is it that we don't understand or that we do understand and our hearts can't accept the answer?
Former US Ambassador to Ukraine details Trump's betrayal www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
Latest episode of the David Frum Show: former US ambassador to Ukraine on Trump's betrayal and her resignation in protest youtu.be/e8FutZnjdKs
On the @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social podcast: too early for accolades on US Iran strike t.co/aCzMN94ixm
Tina Brown on the insanity of the super rich www.youtube.com/watch?v=84d7...
"It all starts on the private plane," Tina Brown says. On this week's episode of "The David Frum Show," Brown explains how some wealthy businesspeople can become addicted to the high-end lifestyle. bit.ly/3HZxwFh
The Iranian regime's grandiose claims of imaginary victories may actually be a positive indicator for peace. If they acknowledged their humiliation, they would have to do something to expunge it. By denying it, they don't.
Two truths: The world will be a better and safer place if liberated from the terror of an Iranian nuclear weapon; War expands presidential powers, and Trump has proven that he will abuse those powers. Latest David Frum Show youtu.be/84d72BTt0Qo
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A parable for our tines: "You may as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backwards." www.youtube.com/watch?v=84d7...
One of the aspects of the British experience with Jeremy Corbyn that is already being repeated here: people with zero (or worse) regard for Jewish life and Jewish safety scolding actual Jews about how wrong and stupid we are about Jewish life and Jewish safety.
The new David Frum podcast opens with thoughts about hopes vs fears after Trump's Iran action ... then follows a discussion with legendary editor and author Tina Brown. youtu.be/84d72BTt0Qo
Well, at least we can retire that faded and false line, "antisemitism has no place in New York City."
Trump theory of international relations: wars are over when he gets bored with them.
New David Frum Show episode posts tonight. My guest will be the legendary Tina Brown, who will explain why so many of America's billionaires seem to go psycho. In my opening segment, I talk about hope and danger in Trump's action vs Iran. Releases midnight ET.
I will join BBC Newsnight tonight about 530 pm ET
Shortly joining @katiecouric.bsky.social for a Substack Live chat
How it looks from the Iranian regime point of view youtu.be/c_WO0x4ERV0
“Trump is vulnerable to the negotiate-to-delay strategy because he has not taken any of the necessary steps to lead the nation into the war he once seemed ready to join,” writes @davidfrum.bsky.social:
All 11 episodes of The David Frum Show now on one single YouTube page m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
As the world wonders whether the US will strike Iran's nuclear weapons facilities - @ksadjadpour explains how and why the Iranian regime chose this war. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_WO...
The Iranian regime's capacity for atrocity diminishes by the day www.timesofisrael.com/pm-israel-wi...
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I'll join MSNBC in the 4 pm ET hour to discuss Trump and Iran
Don't miss this emergency episode of The David Frum show
Ends with a hymn by me to lost glory of pre-mullah Persian culture youtu.be/c_WO0x4ERV0
A victim of Iran's Basaji militia describes his reaction to news that the IDF have struck Basaji headquarters: "Israel is avenging me and I'm euphoric." shaykhatiri.substack.com/p/the-israeli-attack-that-i-celebrate
In this podcast, I wrongly described chess as a Persian invention. I was making the point: why couldn't the mullahs rethink the next moves after losing their major pieces, Hamas and Hezbollah? m.youtube.com/watch?v=c_WO...
An Iranian missile struck the largest hospital in southern Israel. Unlike in Gaza, there was no military bunker buried below. Still, you know the rules: Done by Israel, no matter how justified: war crime. Done to Israel, no matter how atrocious: not a war crime.
One correction: in the podcast I describe chess as a Persian invention. It originated in India, diffused to Europe via Persia