Talking With the Left About Climate Change

Two Frum Forum posts I wrote recently about climate politics — " How the GOP Should Explain Climate Change " and " Newt, Your Ad With Pelosi Wasn't Dumb " — netted me an appearance on "The Green Front," a program of the Progressive Radio Network. This was thanks to fellow F F contributor D.R. …

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Written by Kenneth Silber on Wednesday December 21, 2011

Mugwump Nation

My latest bookshelf rides a favorite hobbyhorse: a defense of the Mugwumps of the 1880s. My latest bookshelf rides a favorite hobbyhorse: a defense of the Mugwumps of the 1880s.

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday August 25, 2009

The Mugwumps: Public Moralists of the Gilded Age

To the extent that anybody remembers them at all, the Mugwumps of the 1870s and 1880s get predominantly negative press. Yet while as a movement for political power the Mugwumps failed, their ideas for reform overwhelmingly prevailed. To the extent that anybody remembers them at all, the …

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday August 25, 2009