![]() ![]() At Yale University, he simultaneously earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in history, graduating in 1982. He graduated from the University of Toronto Schools in 1978 where he was the school captain. "My campaign colleagues jeered at the book-and by the end of the campaign, any lingering interest I might have had in the political left had vanished like yesterday's smoke." Education During the hour-long bus/subway/bus ride each way to and from the campaign office in western Toronto, he read a paperback edition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, which his mother had given to him. Īt age 14, Frum was a campaign volunteer for an Ontario New Democratic Party candidate Jan Dukszta for the 1975 provincial election. He is a distant cousin of economist Paul Krugman. ![]() Frum also has an adopted brother, Matthew, from whom he is estranged. He is married to the writer Danielle Crittenden, the stepdaughter of former Toronto Sun editor Peter Worthington. Frum's sister, Linda Frum, was a member of the Senate of Canada. His father's parents migrated from Poland to Toronto in 1930. Background īorn in Toronto, Ontario to a Jewish family, Frum is the son of the late Barbara Frum (née Rosberg), a well-known, Niagara Falls, New York-born journalist and broadcaster in Canada, and the late Murray Frum, a dentist, who later became a real estate developer, philanthropist, and art collector. įrum is the son of Canadian journalist Barbara Frum. įrum formerly served on the board of directors of the Republican Jewish Coalition, the British think tank Policy Exchange, the anti-drug policy group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, and as vice chairman and an associate fellow of the R Street Institute. He has taken credit for the famous phrase " axis of evil" in Bush's 2002 State of the Union address. In 2003, Frum authored the first book about Bush's presidency written by a former member of the administration. Bush, who is currently a senior editor at The Atlantic as well as an MSNBC contributor. David Jeffrey Frum ( / f r ʌ m/ born June 30, 1960) is a Canadian-American political commentator and a former speechwriter for President George W. ![]()
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