David Frum Named Senior Editor at The Atlantic

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Mar 19 2014, 3:01 PM ET

... David Frum is joining The Atlantic as a senior editor beginning March 31, James Bennet, editor in chief of The Atlantic, announced today ... Frum has worked on the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Forbes magazine, and for the Manhattan Institute and the American Enterprise Institute ... Frum served as a special assistant to President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2002; he was a senior foreign policy advisor on the Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign from 2007 to 2008 ... Frum’s first book, Dead Right, was described by William F. Buckley as “the most refreshing ideological experience in a generation” ... [\i]

http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2014/03/david-frum-named-senior-editor-at-the-atlantic/284510/

[BeyondGeography]

1. Going for the muddled middle

Awesome.

[Luminous Animal]

2. If William F. Buckley endorses him, he must an important coup for the liberal press.

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3. The magazine was sold to rightwingers some years back

[Luminous Animal]

4. Jeffery Goldberg belongs in its hall of shame. Frum marks their fall into irrelevancy.