David Frum

It's very long, and a lot of it can be kind of obscure.

But Smith reads today as powerfully as he did 250 years ago this month.

People should go read them.

Thank you, Sam, so much for making time today.

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This episode of The David Frum Show was produced by Nathaniel Frum and edited by Andrea Valdez.

Hello, and welcome to The David Frum Show.

I'm David Frum, a staff writer at The Atlantic.

I'm recording the show at a grave moment in American history.

My guest this week will be Tom Nichols, my colleague at The Atlantic, former professor at the Naval War College.

And we'll be discussing our anxieties about the way the war with Iran has been managed, our fears about the uses to which the war will be put by the Trump administration, and our hopes for a better future for the people of Iran, but a future that cannot be separated from the dangers this war poses to the people of the United States.

There will be no book talk this week.

Our conversation will be too substantial for that.