Editing David Frum (section)

== Early life and education ==
Born in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], to a [[Canadian Jews|Jewish]] family,<ref name="Kreisler"/> Frum is the son of the late [[Barbara Frum]] (née Rosberg), a well-known, Niagara Falls, New York-born journalist and broadcaster in Canada,<ref name="jwa.org">{{cite web|url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/frum-barbara |title=Barbara Frum &#124; Jewish Women's Archive |website=Jwa.org |date=March 26, 1992 |access-date=September 26, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Oppenheimer">{{Cite news|last=Oppenheimer|first=Mark|date=2012-07-11|title=The Prodigal Frum|journal=The Nation|language=en-US|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/prodigal-frum/|access-date=2020-10-14|issn=0027-8378}}</ref> and the late [[Murray Frum]], a dentist, who later became a real estate developer, philanthropist, and art collector. His father's parents migrated from [[Poland]] to [[Toronto]] in 1930.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/28/toronto_developer_murray_frum_died_monday_at_the_age_of_81.html |title=Murray Frum, developer and philanthropist, died Monday at age 81 |last=Winsa |first=Patty |work=[[Toronto Star]] |date=May 28, 2013 |access-date=January 3, 2017}}</ref> Frum's sister, [[Linda Frum]], was a member of the [[Senate of Canada]]. Frum also has an adopted brother, Matthew, from whom he is estranged.<ref name="Oppenheimer"/>

At age 14, Frum was a [[Political campaign staff|campaign volunteer]] for an [[Ontario New Democratic Party]] candidate [[Jan Dukszta]] for the [[1975 Ontario general election|1975 provincial election]].<ref name=prodigalfrum/> During the hour-long commute each way to and from the campaign office in western Toronto, he read a paperback edition of [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]'s ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]]'', which his mother had given to him. "My campaign colleagues jeered at the book—and by the end of the campaign, any lingering interest I might have had in the [[political left]] had vanished like yesterday's smoke."<ref name="national review"/>

Frum was educated at [[Yale University]], where he took the Directed Studies program,<ref name=shelf/> and was awarded both a bachelor of arts and a master of arts. He was awarded his [[Juris Doctor]] degree by [[Harvard University]].