{"id":476094,"date":"2010-03-26T14:54:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80655"},"modified":"2010-03-26T14:54:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:54:35","slug":"charles-murray-frum-isn%e2%80%99t-telling-the-truth-about-aei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/476094","title":{"rendered":"Charles Murray: Frum Isn\u2019t Telling the Truth About AEI"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “Bell Curve” and “In Our Hands” author and AEI scholar writes at length<\/a> in National Review about the departure of David Frum from AEI. The argument: Frum had become “invisible as a member of the institute,” and that he can’t be serious about donors complaining about his work.<\/p>\n

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The idea that AEI donors sit down to talk with AEI\u2019s president about who should\u00a0and shouldn\u2019t be on the staff, or what the staff should write, is fantasy. David has never seen the slightest sign of anything like that at AEI. He can\u2019t have. He made it up. AEI has a culture, the scholars are fiercely proud of that culture, and at its heart is total intellectual freedom. As for the reality of that intellectual freedom, I think it\u2019s fair to say I know what I\u2019m talking about. I\u2019ve pushed it to the limit. Arthur Brooks is just as adamant about preserving that culture as Chris DeMuth was, and Chris\u2019s devotion to it was seamless.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/span>Meanwhile, Frum’s wife Danielle Crittenden<\/a> fires at the critics of her husband:<\/p>\n

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We have both been part of the conservative movement for, as mentioned, the better part of half of our lives. And I can categorically state I’ve never seen such a hostile environment towards free thought and debate — once the hallmarks of Reaganism, the politics with which we grew up — prevail in our movement as it does today. The thuggish demagoguery of the Limbaughs and Becks is a trait we once derided in the old socialist Left. Well boys, take a look in the mirror. It is us now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “Bell Curve” and “In Our Hands” author and AEI scholar writes at length in National Review about the departure of David Frum from AEI. The argument: Frum had become “invisible as a member of the institute,” and that he can’t be serious about donors complaining about his work. The idea that AEI donors sit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}