David Frum's Blog, page 24

Is Israel Really Pakistan's Enemy?

A brave Pakistani columnist questions the hatred for Israel inculcated by his state's institutions and proposes that Pakistan move to normal relations with Israel.

Why the European Union Matters

Why should we cheer the European Union?

Mother Forces Teenage Daughter to Get Pregnant

A British woman has been issued a five year prison sentence for forcing her 14-year old daughter to get pregnant through artificial insemination.

Donald Kagan on Western Civilization

Don't miss this fascinating Wall Street Journal interview with Donald Kagan, classicist and one-time dean of Yale College - now in open despair at the state of the university to which he devoted his life.

How Drugs Ruined This Small Town

Here's a movie for the drug legalizer in your Twitter feed.

David's Bookclub: Mutual Contempt

The epic feud between Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy is a story that reflects credit on nobody, except the author who has so minutely related it. Jeff Shesol served as a speechwriter to Bill Clinton, and that governmental experience may have inoculated him against the pro-Bobby romanticism that has biased so many other tellings of this story, including Robert Caro's most recent volume of Johnson biography, published 16 years after Shesol's study. Shesol's Mutual Contempt by...

Hockey Night in the Punjab

If Jamaican bobsledding can be a movie, surely "Hockey Night in the Punjab" calls out even more for the Hollywood treatment

Guns Turn Disputes into Murders

One more reminder of how guns escalate ordinary disputes into deadly finality. Yesterday in Philadelphia,

Justin Trudeau Has Canadians' Sympathy, But Not Their Respect

My National Post column: it's Trudeau who should be attacking, not Harper.

You Are Beautiful

The Internet answers back to Dove's "self-esteem" ads