[1] After graduating from college, Drum worked at RadioShack for several years,[1] and became a store manager in Costa Mesa, California, in 1983.
[4] In 2000 he was promoted from the position of VP for Marketing,[5] becoming the general manager of the Ascent Software Business Unit within Kofax.
Drum defended Hillary Clinton during her email controversy, stating that her actions were "non-scandalous",[10] and that she is "honest to a fault when discussing policy".
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.
[14] The theory was popularized by public health researcher Jessica Reyes,[15] as well as economist Rick Nevin.
[16] Drum's thesis was criticized by Jim Manzi in January 2013;[17] he has continued to document new evidence in support of the theory.
Pinson wrote: "We argue that media coverage of homeless people often portrays them as unclean or diseased, which activates disgust among the general public.
"[20] In an interview with Norman Geras, Drum said that his intellectual heroes were Franklin D. Roosevelt, Isaac Newton, John Maynard Keynes, Edward R. Murrow and Charles Darwin.