Lake of Irony
Women's rights activist Manal al-Sharif was one of three winners this year of the Oslo Freedom Forum’s Vaclav Havel prize for Creative Dissent. (Jemal Countess)
Eli Lake reports from the Oslo Freedom Forum:
At a breakfast roundtable session sponsored by a California-based charity, Humanity United, a former British diplomat named Carne Ross proposed ending nearly all secrecy in Western diplomacy. I would share more details of that talk, but Ross asked that his remarks be off the record.
About the Author
David Frum
David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.




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