Is This What Democracy Looks Like?

Anne Applebaum has just written the best column I've yet seen on the Occupy Wall Street protests. She makes two key points , one chastening to OWS supporters, one to skeptics. Counter supporters, Anne notes: [T]hese international protests do have a few things in common, both with one …

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday October 18, 2011

Memory Fails

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 …

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Written by David Frum on Wednesday March 16, 2011