Though most famous for coining the phrase “axis-of-evil” in President Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address, Frum’s second most famous act was to try to read antiwar conservatives out of the movement. In a 2003 cover story for National Review entitled “Unpatriotic Conservatives,” Frum gave right-wing dissenters from Bush’s foreign policy the Fredo treatment: “War is a great clarifier. It … [Read More]

That a man whose entire career had been defined by his staunch fidelity to the American taxpayer would throw it all away by committing infidelity seemed like a fate fit for some other politician. In his political life, Sanford had never been a scumbag like Eliot Spitzer, a hack with something to hide like Larry Craig, or even remotely in the … [Read More]

More years ago than I care to remember, Burt Blumert saved my life–with the sort of advice only a born wise man could proffer. During some crisis or other, perhaps personal, perhaps political or professional—I don’t recall the details—he told me just what I should do, and I promptly did it—with beneficent results all around. What was his advice? As I … [Read More]