David Frum

David Frum ( born 1960 in Toronto, Canada) is a conservative Canadian- American political journalist and author. He was an economic speechwriter for former U.S. President George W. Bush and co-workers at the American Enterprise Institute. For both positions, he retired after controversy and has since worked as a journalist and publicist for various newspapers and magazines, and his blog FrumForum.

Frum is considered the inventor of the phrase " axis of evil". He was a member of the Canada - Israel Committee, is now a member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and sits at the Republican Jewish Coalition on the board.

Training and beginnings as a journalist

Frum is the son of Jewish- Canadian journalist Barbara Frum (1937-1992) and the real estate developer Murray Frum ( 1931-2013 ). He attended until 1978, the University of Toronto Schools and studied at Yale University, where he graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor and Master of Arts in History afterwards. In 1987 he earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. He first worked in Toronto at Saturday Night Magazine from 1989 to 1992 for the Wall Street Journal, and then to 1994 for Forbes Magazine, and then to 2000 for the neo-conservative Manhattan Institute.

Speech writer for George W. Bush

Frum in 2000, the Time as " lightning clever rights " referred to as a speech writer for the newly elected U.S. president George W. Bush was hired and was one of the few foreigners who worked in the White House.

After Frum's statement comes Bush's famous phrase of the " Axis of Evil ", " axis of evil", some of it. He used the term first used in the first draft of the State of the Union speech in which Bush, terrorist organizations and extremist governments called " Axis of Hatred" (axis of hatred ), which was then changed by others in " Axis of Evil". His wife, the Canadian journalist Danielle Crittenden boasted of his time in e -mails so what caused an uproar. Frum announced shortly afterwards his place end of February 2002, wherein, according to Frum and the White House, the termination would have had nothing to do with the indiscretion.

Activity at the American Enterprise Institute

2003 was Frum of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, set and worked there until March 2010 as a Fellow.

Together with Richard Perle, Frum published An End to Evil in 2004. In it, the authors recommend, among other things, that all citizens of the United States at any time an identification card with biometric data, or its DNA must have with you, an extension of the concept of "terrorist sympathizers " and advocate an expansion of the powers of the secret service. In foreign policy, the U.S. should be prepared according to the authors, among others, an attack on Syria and cancel the efforts for a peace process in the Middle East.

Frum 2005, the nomination of Harriet Miers harshly criticized as Constitutional Court Judge by President Bush and Miers called " a second-rate candidate with no clear conservative profile " and considered it to be inadequate to the target of conservative Republicans in control of the Constitutional Court reinforced. Miers had asked Bush later due to the pressure of various circles to withdraw their nomination.

Frum had applied for U.S. citizenship and was in September 2007 of U.S. citizens.

Immediately prior to his dismissal to the AEI in March 2010, Frum had the efforts to introduce a statutory health insurance in the United States supported and criticized the vicinity of the Republicans for News Magazine Fox News.

Frum's blog

His collaboration with the National Review, where he worked on a popular blog, Frum announced in 2008 and founded on the day of the inauguration of President Barack Obama his own blog, " NewMajority.com ", which he later in " FrumForum.com " renamed. He also writes columns for the Canadian National Post and other American and Canadian newspapers. With his blog Frum wants to modernize the Republican Party and the conservative movement by its own account. Self-critical, he writes:

"In the last three years, I 've been thinking about my own conservatism. My fundamental political principles have remained the same: Free Markets, American leadership in the world, adherence to traditional moral and cultural traditions. But I can not ignore the fact that the free market economy has led in recent years to some harmful and dangerous results my eyes. Or that the foreign policy which I advocated, has not produced the success that I wanted. Or that traditions need to evolve if they are to endure. There are also new principles, the ingredients must be a majority capable of conservatism: the protection of the environment as a core value and a government that is based on competence and integrity. The way back to a Republican and Conservative majority is no obvious and not be easier. And I suppose for me not claim to know the answers. At the moment, however, there are the questions that count. "

Frum is a critic of right -wing populism 'of the Tea Party movement. An article in the American Jewish magazine Tablet by end of September 2011 will have noticed a change in his political attitude toward Progressivism, "Since the Tea Party dominated Republican Party, to Frum has in a remarkably short time by a master of the right wing of the party to a apostates changed. "

In May 2012, David Frum published his first novel, Patriots.

Private

According to the American journalist Robert Novak to Frum referred to as " not particularly observant Jew ." He is married to the conservative Canadian author and journalist Danielle Crittenden, with whom he has three children.

Works

• Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again, Doubleday, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-385-51533-7
• An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, with Richard Perle, Random House, New York and Toronto, 2004, ISBN 978-1400061945
• The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, Random House, New York and Toronto, 2003, ISBN 978-0375509032
• How We Got Here: The 70's: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life - For Better or Worse, Basic Books, New York 2000, ISBN 978-0465041954
• What 's Right: The New Conservative Majority and the Remaking of America, Basic Books, New York 1997, ISBN 978-0465041985
• What 's Right: The New Conservatism and What It Means for Canada, Random House of Canada, Mississauga, Ontario 1996, ISBN 978-0679307839
• Dead Right, Basic Books, New York 1995 ISBN 978-0465098255
• Patriots, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2012, ISBN 978-1475141962