{"id":15272,"date":"2025-01-10T07:28:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T07:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=15272"},"modified":"2025-01-14T07:49:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T07:49:25","slug":"2025-01-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-01-12\/","title":{"rendered":"David Frum on Trump\u2019s \u201cPredatory\u201d Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/humanists.org_2025_01_12_David_Frum.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15274\"\/><figcaption>David Frum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>11 a.m., January 12, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we discuss an interview with David Frum from Amanapour and Company, America\u2019s Lonely Future: David Frum on Trump\u2019s \u201cPredatory\u201d Foreign Policy. With Trump&#8217;s inauguration on the horizon, conversations continue about the impact of the President-elect&#8217;s policies both at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>David Jeffrey Frum is a Canadian-American political commentator and former speechwriter for President George W. Bush. He is considered a voice in the neoconservative movement. In his latest piece for The Atlantic, \u201cAmerica&#8217;s Lonely Future,&#8221; Frum warns that the U.S. could become a global bully.<\/p>\n<p><b>Walter Seff Isaacson<\/b> is an American journalist and an interviewer for the PBS and CNN news show Amanpour &amp; Company.<\/p>\n<p><b>Amanapour and Company<\/b> is a late-night global-affairs interview television program hosted by Christiane Amanapour.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch this 18-minute video on:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nIeUigGZktk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nIeUigGZktk<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This Sunday, you can attend our forum in person with fellow humanists in the Orchard Room at the Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos, CA 94022. (On the first and third Sunday of the month, you can continue to attend our forum at the Mountain View Senior Center.)<\/p>\n<p>\nWe may choose, as a group, to visit a restaurant for lunch afterwards in downtown Los Altos near the library.<\/p>\n<p>If you can join us in person, please email vp@humanists.org to help us make sure we have room for you. If you have symptoms that may be COVID, kindly attend on Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Also, we will continue to present our forums <a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/81653890712?pwd=QzN4MTVNbGEwQ0Zua3d1VG9tVE50UT09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Zoom. To join and be able to ask questions and make comments, click here<\/a>.<br>No password is needed &#8212; our host will admit you from the waiting room. Joining the meeting via the link will download and install the Zoom app on your desktop computer (if it&#8217;s not already installed), and then take you to the meeting. 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With Trump&#8217;s inauguration on the horizon, conversations continue about the impact of the President-elect&#8217;s policies both at home and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-01-12\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;David Frum on Trump\u2019s \u201cPredatory\u201d Foreign Policy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,258],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15280,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15272\/revisions\/15280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}