Kevin Drum
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| Born | October 19, 1958 . Long Beach, California |
| Occupation | Writer |
Kevin Drum (born October 19, 1958) is an American political blogger and columnist. He was born in Long Beach, California and now lives in Irvine, California.
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[edit] Education
Drum attended Caltech for two years. He transferred to California State University, Long Beach and received his bachelor's degree in journalism in 1981. While at CSULB he served as city editor of the university's student run newspaper, the Daily 49er.
[edit] Career
Drum rose to prominence through the popularity of his now-defunct independent liberal blog Calpundit (2003–2004) and through his blog Political Animal (2004–2008) published by the Washington Monthly. In 2008, he took a position blogging at Mother Jones magazine web site.
Stylistically, his blog is known for offering original statistical or graphical analysis, with special attention to oil supply, especially peak oil theory, and related issues. While blogging at Calpundit he is credited with pioneering the trend of "Friday catblogging."[1]
Prior to writing full time about politics he worked as a technical writer, then moved into high-tech marketing. He was with Kofax Image Products for nine years as VP for Marketing and general manager of the software division. He also has worked as a consultant.
In an interview with Norman Geras, Drum stated that his intellectual heroes were Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Isaac Newton, John Maynard Keynes, Edward R. Murrow and Charles Darwin. He also considers Benjamin Franklin his all-time favorite political hero.[2]
[edit] The Iraq war
Drum initially supported the 2003 Iraq War, but immediately before its initiation by the United States he came out in opposition to it. He said, "Before the war started I switched to opposition on practical grounds (i.e., that George W. Bush's approach was incapable of accomplishing the goals it was meant to accomplish). Since then, I've pretty much come to the conclusion that, in fact, I should have opposed it all along on philosophical grounds: namely that it was a fundamentally flawed concept and had no chance of working even if it had been competently executed."[3][4]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Terdiman, Daniel. The New York Times, Technology Section, October 28, 2004.
- ^ Geras, Norman. Interview with Kevin Drum, August 19, 2005.
- ^ Geras, Norman. Ibid.
- ^ Foreign Affairs, article, July 11, 2006.
[edit] External links
- Kevin Drum's blog at Mother Jones.
- Biographical information.
- Kevin Drum interview at The Potomac Journal.
