Kevin Drum

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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. In 1991 he wed the newly named Marian Drum.

Biography

Education

Drum received a degree in journalism in 1981 from California State University, Long Beach and attended Caltech for two years prior to transferring to CSULB.

While at CSULB he served as city editor of the University's student run [http://www.daily49er.com/ "Daily 49er"] .

Career background

Currently, he blogs daily at the "Mother Jones" magazine web site. He 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 " [http://www.washingtonmonthly.com Washington Monthly] ."

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 of Marketing and general manager of the software division. He also has worked as a consultant.

Stylistically, his blog is known for offering original statistical or graphical analysis (unusual for the genre), 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." [ [http://tech2.nytimes.com/mem/technology/techreview.html?res=9805E6DE123DF93BA15753C1A9629C8B63 Terdiman, Daniel] . "The New York Times," Technology Section, October 28 2004.]

In an interview with Norman Geras he 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. [ [http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2005/08/the_normblog_pr_2.html Geras, Norman] . Interview with Kevin Drum, August 19 2005.]

The Iraq war

As for the 2003 Iraq War, he was originally in favor of the American led war but immediately before the attack 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." [Geras, Norman. Ibid.] [ [http://www.foreignaffairs.org/special/roundtable_drum "Foreign Affairs"] , article, July 11 2006.]

References

External links

* [http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum Kevin Drum's] blog at [http://www.motherjones.com Mother Jones] .
* [http://members.cox.net/kdrum/Autobio.htm Biographical] information.
* [http://webdelsol.com/The_Potomac/newpotomac-kdrum.htm Kevin Drum] interview at "The Potomac Journal" by Michael Neff.