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David Frum

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The Plot to Wreck the Democratic Convention

May not amount to much, actually. Chicago 2024 is not Chicago 1968.

by David Frum via The Atlantic on April 29, 2024
The New History Wars

Inside the strife set off by an essay from the president of the American Historical Association.

by David Frum via The Atlantic on October 30, 2022
Roe Is the New Prohibition

The pro-life movement needs to know that such culture wars result not in outright victory for one side but in reaction and compromise.

by David Frum via The Atlantic on June 27, 2022
America Must Become a Democracy

The authors of the Constitution feared mass participation would unsettle government, but it’s the privileged minority that has proved destabilizing.

by David Frum via The Atlantic on February 15, 2021
The Souring of American Exceptionalism

Commitment to liberalism once distinguished the U.S. Now, it’s the disdain of elites for their fellow citizens that sets the nation apart.

by David Frum via The Atlantic on July 3, 2017
Trump Isn't the Apotheosis of Conservatism

Writers like Rick Perlstein miss the ways in which Trump’s rise is a story of discontinuity.

by David Frum via The Atlantic on April 15, 2017

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Woodrow Wilson working at his desk on May 1, 1917.

Don’t Be So Quick to Laud Woodrow Wilson

An effort is underway to restore President Wilson’s reputation as a great reformer. His best reforms were won by a mass movement, often pushing against Wilson.

by Henry Snow via Jacobin on March 14, 2024

Visitors sit before the Benin plaques exhibit (known as the Benin Bronzes) at the British Museum in London.

Museum Reparations

Should museums only exhibit work of their own culture, or should they bring the world to visitors?

by Katrina Gulliver via Law & Liberty on June 7, 2023

Human figures colored either blue or green.

Mortality Wars

Estimating life and death in Iraq and Gaza.

by Shaan Sachdev via The Drift on July 8, 2024

Digitally altered portrait of a man in a suit with his face pixelated, framed by computer windows.

What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes

Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.

by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on November 13, 2023

What AHA President James Sweet Got Wrong—And Right

Attacking presentism as a mindset of younger scholars doesn’t solve any of the historical profession's problems.

by Jonathan W. Wilson via Clio and the Contemporary on November 30, 2022

Three panels depicting the Freedmen's Bureau, the march for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, and Trump at a podium..

America’s Most Destructive Habit

Each time political minorities advocate for and achieve greater equality, conservatives rebel, trying to force a reinstatement of the status quo.

by John S. Huntington via The Atlantic on November 7, 2021

Photo collage of Republican men, with Donald Trump at the center.

A Short History of Conservative Trolling

On the laughing emptiness at the center of the Republican Party.

by Rick Perlstein via Intelligencer on October 26, 2021

Beyond the End of History

Historians' prohibition on 'presentism' crumbles under the weight of events.

by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Chronicle of Higher Education on August 14, 2020

Trump and the Historians

What the election of 2016 should mean for the future of studying the past.

by Brent Cebul on September 1, 2017

I Found Prison Data Going Back to 1880. This is How Mass Incarceration Looks In Context

America put drastically more people in prison over the past few decades than at any time in the nation's history.

by Dara Lind via Vox on October 11, 2015

George W. Bush at a press conference on Iraq, March 3, 2003.

The First Casualty

The selling of the Iraq war.

by Spencer Ackerman, John B. Judis via The New Republic on June 30, 2003

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