Very glad so many people liked the Mary Beard episode of the David Frum Show. Tonight we drop audio -and tomorrow video - of a dialogue with
@jonrauch.bsky.social
on the connection between true knowledge and political freedom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpFFyQ7rv8Q&t=1891s

Crazy to think it will be easier to elect a friend of Israel as president of any Eastern European country than as the next congressperson from midtown Manhattan.

Don't miss @caitlindickerson.bsky.social on the explosive growth of ICE under Trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtSK9DzNdzA&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO

The streets of the United States are patrolled - and 000s have been detained - by masked paramilitary forces who disavow due process and who demonstrate loyalty to a single political party, not the US government or Constitution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtSK9DzNdzA&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO

Video of David Frum Show episode with @caitlindickerson.bsky.social now posted to YouTube. Watch, subscribe, and share. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtSK9DzNdzA&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=2&t=478s

Americans are paying over 20% more for coffee under Trump than under Biden. When Trump brags about tariff collections, he's bragging about his tax on your cup. Good morning!

Audio has posted of this week's David Frum Show; video a little later this morning (ET). Subscribe! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-ice-became-trumps-secret-army/id1305908387?i=1000722747054

Americans are paying over 20% more for coffee under Trump than under Biden. When Trump brags about tariff collections, he's bragging about his tax on your cup.

Next David Frum Show will release on audio tonight at midnight. Video will post tomorrow morning. Guest will be my @theatlantic.com colleague @caitlindickerson.bsky.social
We'll discuss how under Trump, ICE is growing into 3d largest armed force on earth, after US DoD and China PLA. Subscribe!

Center-left governments in Australia, Canada, France, and UK are moving toward recognition of Palestinian statehood in hope of diminishing pro-Palestinian violence on their own soil. My latest in @theatlantic.com https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/08/france-uk-australia-canada-palestine-state/683857/

Are housing costs driven by greedy developers? I asked Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin in latest episode of David Frum Show podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTAvsL3_XTM

New David Frum Show.
Guest, Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin, "why housing feels hopeless."
I open with thoughts on 80th anniversary of VJ Day. Along with the terrible war that ended August 15, 1945, let's honor the long peace that began that day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTAvsL3_XTM&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=1&t=42s

The David Frum Show debuted April 9. We're now nearing 5 million views/audio downloads. Subscribe and join the action. Shows post every Wednesday. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO

New David Frum show video just posted: Ukraine won't surrender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1b_TPgODKg&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=1

I talk in this
@thehubcanada.bsky.social dialogue about the enduring power of the ancient myth: a sinless sufferer tormented by demonic Jews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhDIfRRHzvI

Why the Trump tariffs are failing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv-UTWwu5UM&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=2&t=708s

Why the economic news is bad today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv-UTWwu5UM&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=4

If you want to know more about why Trump's latest round of regressive taxes on American consumers is stupid and dangerous ... here's your link. https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/07/david-frum-show-tariffs-trump-doug-irwin/683707/?taid=688c070cfd72530001dc201e&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

19th century tariffs did not accelerate US industrialization.

Yes, the Great Depression was caused by US tariffs, specifically the tariffs of 1922.

The "China shock" of the 2000s did not slow US growth.

All this and more ... https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/07/david-frum-show-tariffs-trump-doug-irwin/683707/?gift=--cnk1foeHelIW28f2WCD_vGSm3bSy0ipMqQooHYehc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Debunking Trump tariff lies on the new David Frum Show https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trumps-tariff-disaster/id1305908387?i=1000719742203

Tariffs are a systematic attack on American prosperity. The arguments presented for tariffs are a sustained insult to American intelligence.

On tomorrow's David Frum Show, the trade historian Douglas Irwin debunks the dumb fictions that support Donald Trump's massive tariff tax increases on working-class and middle-class Americans. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO

Tariffs tariffs tariffs on tomorrow's David Frum Show. Subscribe now on your favorite platform. https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/the-david-frum-show/

If Trump lost valued employees to competing offers, one reason might be his company's court-proven practice of requiring employees to participate in tax fraud in order to gain their full compensation. https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-signed-checks-issue-tax-fraud-scheme-ex-cfo-testifies-2022-11-18/

Trump's new story is that he fell out with Jeffrey Epstein because Trump's most valued employees preferred to go work for a notorious sex offender rather than stay with Trump.

Trump first term message: "Liberal tears and higher wages."

Trump second term message: "Higher taxes on everything you buy to finance my Epstein cover-up and retirement cash-out."

The new socialism owes a lot to Trump's discrediting of trade and markets. Latest in @theAtlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/capitalism-defense-trump-corruption/683679/

Trump's socialism https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/capitalism-defense-trump-corruption/683679/

Qatar's gift to Donald Trump of a luxury jet for his post-presidential use will cost taxpayers almost $1 billion in carefully concealed Pentagon funds. That's money straight from your taxes to Trump's personal benefit. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/air-force-one-trump-cost.html