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Lizzie Collingham is one of my favorite social historians working today. I finished the latest of her books, Biscuit, on Christmas Day. #FrumReads4 1/xhttps://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1118496/the-biscuit/9781847926128.html Collingham'

Devoted my reading time over past two days to "Silencing the Past," challenging collection of essays by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, a historian of Haiti who died in 2012. 1/x http://www.beacon.org/Silencing-the-Past-P1109.aspx Early

Over past few days, I've been transfixed by memoir by Barbara Amiel, "Friends and Enemies." A story of downfall, not a comfortable read at all. But vivid about what it

I got overnight via email a query from @briansflood at Fox News, the principal part of which I reproduce below. I answered by email too. I'll append that reply in

In the 19th century, genteel Britons began wishing each other "Happy Christmas" rather than "Merry Christmas" because "merry" was understood to mean "drunk off your face." Worse - per Oxford

It cant be that he's going to fly to Georgia to enflame civil war within the state Republican party ...https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1335351629810286592 Yet it makes a perverse psychological sense. Trump can't acknowled

1) The point of the electoral college as designed in 1787 was to entrust the selection of the president to a small group of eminent persons. That plan went moribund

To underscore the pointObama averaged 52.0 % in two presidential elections Trump averaged 46.5 % in two presidential electionshttps://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1334623664474628097 And yet the Trump people think there's something diff

Yesterday, my daughter mentioned a gift she wanted, a brand of handbag. I asked her to forward me a link to retailers with details. This morning I awoke to a

If this story is true, it's funny to imagine the thoughts and feelings of Pence and Pompeo as O'Brien pledged their support for a Trump 2024 run. "Oh sure, how

And reform begins with acceptance of some grim and unwanted realities. The problems are not "on both sides." The illiberal authoritarianism of some dean of students somewhere is not equivalent

No more happy talk about the "uniquely American transition of power." Trump presidency and this post-election period confirm that the US is *less* committed to democratic norms - and has

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