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Entries from June 2008

Point Of Origin (book Review Of Allan J. Lichtman’s “white Protestant Nation: The Rise Of The American Conservative Movement”)

David Frum wrote on June 29th, 2008 at 12:00 am

In most lines of work, a person does his credibility real damage by denying the obvious and asserting the manifestly untrue. Yet in the book world, there can be very large rewards for a writer who boldly turns reality on its head. With “White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement,” Allan J.   more

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A Clear Gain For Obama

David Frum wrote on June 28th, 2008 at 12:00 am

‘You cannot address crime prevention without getting rid of assault weapons and handguns. I consider them a threat to national security, and I will go door to door if I have to, but I’m gonna convince Americans that I’m right, and I’m gonna get the guns.”
That passionate outburst occurs at the climax of the   more

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The Rules

David Frum wrote on June 25th, 2008 at 12:00 am

How McCain should pick ‘em.  more

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My Father Was Right

David Frum wrote on June 21st, 2008 at 12:00 am

‘Marriage is a lottery.” Among the pieces of wisdom that my father tried to impart to me, that quotation ranked number one.
(Number two was “internal rate of return is a useless concept in evaluating a real estate investment” — but that’s a topic for another column.)
My father’s fatalistic assessment chafed my young   more

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Don’t Blame George Bush For Anti-americanism

David Frum wrote on June 14th, 2008 at 12:00 am

I’d seen the scene a hundred times in movies and television: the big hearing room on Capitol Hill, the chairman with his gavel, the spectators crowded at the back, the massed cameras and the lonely witness crouched into his microphone, speaking to the U.S. Congress and the world.
Real life is less dramatic. On Wednesday   more

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The Clinton Ultimatum

David Frum wrote on June 7th, 2008 at 12:00 am

It’s not unusual for the winner of a U. S. presidential nomination to choose the runner-up as his running mate. John Kerry did it in 2004. Ronald Reagan did it in 1980. John F. Kennedy did it (under very different rules) in 1960.
In these pairings, it is always the winner who reaches out to   more

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Republicans Need To Start Offering Answers

David Frum wrote on June 2nd, 2008 at 12:00 am

If the 2008 presidential election were all about Iraq, John McCain would win.
According to the authoritative Pew poll, Americans have become steadily more optimistic about Iraq over the past 15 months. Almost one-half the American public now thinks the Iraq war is going “very” or “fairly” well – up 18 points since before the   more

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