politics

My Post-Debate Thoughts in City Journal

October 7, 2012 politics

My friends at the terrific City Journal website seem to have caused a bit of a stir by posting my reflections after the first presidential debate: Even before his inauguration, Barack Obama was an imaginary man, the creation of his admirers. Think back to the 2008 Time magazine cover depicting him as FDR, the Newsweek cover of the same [...]

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Me on Ricochet

September 23, 2012 politics

As promised in the news section, I dropped in on Rob Long, James Lileks and Peter Robinson for the first half hour of the Ricochet podcast last week (I’m the one in the yellow bikini!). Follow the link for an interesting discussion about the state of the election. I was followed on the show by [...]

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A Gratifying Victory

August 20, 2012 politics

Over at Breitbart’s Big Hollywood, movie maven Christian Toto points out that some members of the media are finally coming around to agree with my Wall Street Journal piece about The Dark Knight Rises. This is, as Christian points out, a victory for new media, which spread the word — not about my piece but [...]

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Memorial Day

May 30, 2011 politics

“A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.  As long as justice and injustice [...]

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The Racism of the Left

May 9, 2011 politics

[I originally wrote this post for last week, but pushed it because of the bin Laden killing.  It's no longer strictly topical, but I think it's still true.] I have to admit I know some individual right wingers who are racist – but leftism is racism.  Only the left, by politics, purpose and philosophy, divides [...]

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More on bin Laden

May 2, 2011 politics

Last night, as I was still watching the news, my friends at City Journal called to request a short piece for a symposium on the killing of bin Laden.  I basically wrote down what was in my mind at that moment.  Here’s the meat of it: As jubilant flag-waving crowds gathered outside the White House, [...]

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Justice with a Bullet

May 2, 2011 politics

Originally had a post here about the racism of the left, but I think we can take a day off to unify in celebration over the death of Osama bin Laden.   Here are a few “ancillary observations” I made over at Ricochet: 1.  Killing can be good.  “Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill,” says [...]

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Klavan to GLAAD: Drop Dead!

April 18, 2011 Culture

Let me preface this by saying, as I often have, that I respectfully and even lovingly disagree with many of my fellow conservatives and Christians on the matter of homosexuality. I think gays are part of God’s good creation, and whatever their individual private sins, they are between each of them and God and have [...]

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The Wisdom of the Depressed

April 11, 2011 politics

As I mentioned on a Ricochet podcast last week, I have an annoying habit of holding commentators responsible for their predictions.  If a sports writer tells me the Red Sox are going to the series, and we get to the end of the season and they’re under .500, I remember it and, well, I’m a [...]

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The Debate We’re Not Having

April 4, 2011 politics

The David Horowitz Freedom Center held its annual spring conference this past weekend.  I was there to speak on cultural matters and will post or link to the video when I can (it’s supposed to go up on the center’s website at some point). One of the highlights of the weekend for me was a spirited, [...]

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