Memory Fails

Written by David Frum on Wednesday March 16, 2011

My piece in the Telegraph cited an "anonymous wit" who compared the Arab uprisings to those of 1848. The author is my own friend Anne Applebaum.

My piece in Thursday's Telegraph cited the "anonymous wit" who compared the Arab insurrections to the doomed uprisings of 1848. I should have either flexed my memory better or Googled more carefully: the "anonymous wit" was my friend (and my wife's coauthor!) Anne Applebaum. No excuse for this senile spasm.

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