David‘s estimated net worth, monthly and yearly salary, primary source of income, cars, lifestyle, and much more information have been updated below. So when I realized that David, Barbara’s son, was on the front-line of American conservative politics, I was immediately fascinated. Wow. Barbara Frum’s son is a key player in the American conservative movement? How far that apple fell from the tree, I thought. Maybe it’s silly and presumptuous, but I assumed that the Frum’s were left-leaning Canadian liberals. Maybe they weren’t/aren’t left-leaning, but they are Canadian (despite their passports), and that means everything. Here is my wildly unfounded hypothesis: David Frum was raised, like me, during the era of the great liberal prime mover Pierre Elliot Trudeau. As a smart Canadian trying to forge his own political identity in the shadow of Trudeau’s vision of strong federal government, and his mother’s liberal-leaning journalism, the only obvious intellectual place for David Frum to move was to the right. But because Trudeauism and Barbara Frumism are more left than what American’s call left, any move to the right like Frum’s was bound to drop you more or less in the dead center of American politics. Even a serious stint at the heart of the Bush/Rove/neocon apparatus wasn’t able to change David Frum’s fundamental political disposition: he was then, and is now, a center-right thinker in the Canadian conservative tradition. Anyway, after the debacle of the Bush era, Frum regrouped. He wrote and occasionally appeared on this or that talk show, but he wasn’t the center of attention. American liberals, always desperate for some — any — signs of reason in the neoconservative movement, generally applauded Frum's shift.

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A few weeks ago I was in Los Angeles for the final taping of this season’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Frum was on the panel. During the taping I got myself ready to confront him at the after-party. I wanted to ask if a fundamentally Canadian conservative such as himself felt he could ever truly fit into the American movement. I wanted to ask if he thought his current effort to recast the conservative discourse in the USA—as much as his ideas are being echoed by the likes of William Kristol on Fox News, no less—was going to be any more successful now as his critique in Dead Right was in the early 90s. Did he really believe his thinking was going to take hold in a country where conservatism means everything from God-induced rape, Texas secessionism, wearing Revolutionary topcoats, and saying shit like “these colors don’t run”? Yes, I wanted to tell him—in so many snide formulations—that, as a moderate, centrist, Canadian conservative guy, he was doomed to failure. David Frum Current Affairs, Relation Ships, Dating What was Howland Chamberlain’s marital status? (Single, Engaged, Married, Fiancée in Relation or Divorce) On November 8, 2012, two days after the election, while the cadaver was still warm, David Frum published Why Romney Lost. The central thesis of the e-book is that Romney lost because he was play acting a part that he didn’t believe in: Romney was pandering to a Republican party radicalized and cut off from reality by the Tea Party and Fox News. And, in that, he’s right. I called it the Republican Tea Party and it was a force that distorted any candidate caught in its field. Romney was weak to begin with: he was stiff and out-of-touch with the middle class. His language, his jokes and references, even his hair, were from an older America. But stiff and weird, he was still a pretty moderate politician, the other Republican candidates made sure we knew that. To make matters worse, the other candidates did irreparable damage to him when they amped up the critique and painted him as a vulture capitalist… the Republicans did that! To save himself Romney had to overcompensate—he had to pretend he was more ideologically rigid than his technocratic soul wanted him to be. Frum wanted Moderate Mitt. Frum wants a truly kinder, gentler conservatism. A Canadian-style conservatism. His championing of Moderate Mitt is proof of that. His version of Mitt Romney is just a Leave It to Beaver version of Brian Mulroney. Frum works as a contributor for MSNBC, an American news-based pay television cable channel based in New York City. He also serves on the board of directors of the Republican Jewish Coalition, the anti-drug policy group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, the British research organization Policy Exchange. Books

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher founded in 1857 in Boston, as The Atlantic Monthly, a literary and cultural magazine that published leading writers’ commentary on education, the abolition of slavery, and other major political issues of that time. David serves as a senior editor for the multi-platform magazine. Like Frum, I am a Canadian from Toronto. And if you grew up in Canada during the 80s you could not miss the televisual omnipresence of his mother, CBC news journalist Barbara Frum. Eruditely glamorous, she helped define an era of smart, in-depth, substantive Canadian journalism typified by the evening news show she co-hosted, The Journal. Barbara Frum was a cultural phenomenon, and to me she embodied the kind of journalism that was not the mainstream in America. Shows like The MacNeil - Lehrer Newshour, to me, felt more Canadian than American… maybe that’s because it was co-founded by another Canadian, Jim Lehrer. This episode of Hub Dialogues features Matt Zwolinski, philosophy professor and director of the Center for Ethics, Economics and Public Policy at the University of San Diego, about his fascinating, co-authored book, The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism. Between 2002 and 2010, David Frum wrote a lot of boring stuff, did a lot of boring stuff, started a vanity project called FrumForum and took a position at the American Enterprise Institute, which has served as the Republican Ministry of Propaganda.The Hub Dialogues feature The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers, scholars, and thinkers on the issues and challenges that will shape Canada's future at home and abroad. The episodes are generously supported by The Ira Gluskin And Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foundation.