politics

It’s a Mad, Mad, Madison World

February 21, 2011 politics

I’m working both on writing a new novel for adults and preparing a final draft of my new young adult novel – plus turning out my Klavan on the Culture segments for PJTV – plus other stuff, so if it seems I’m blogging less – and less extensively – on culture and politics, it’s true, [...]

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Me & Goldberg & Lileks & Long

January 26, 2011 politics

Sounds like one of those Ricochet podcasts–and, oh yeah, it is.  Hit the link and you can listen to an hour of podcasty goodness with me, Jonah Goldberg, James Lileks and Rob Long discussing Tiger Mothers, Teddy Roosevelt and Hu’s on First.  Good stuff.

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More on the Narrative

January 17, 2011 politics

Last week, my City Journal piece on the left’s distasteful and dishonest attempt to capitalize on the murders in Tucson made the rounds, a bullet in the hail of new media return fire that forced the lefty wrong-doers into retreat.  Now, as they scuttle back into their dark holes, the left is leaving behind the [...]

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The Hateful Left

January 9, 2011 politics

I respond to the media’s despicable spin on the Tucson shooting in City Journal today: Judging from his website, I would guess that Jared Lee Loughner suffers from schizophrenia. The man who opened fire with a nine-millimeter Glock in Tucson, Arizona, on Saturday was obsessed with mind control and bizarre, incomprehensible theories of currency and [...]

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My Speech for The President

December 13, 2010 politics

I’m not the sort of person to point out that my insight into character is so searingly brilliant that I can predict the course of a man’s life two years into the future…  but if I were that sort of person, boy oh boy, would I be crowing now! When Barack Obama was elected president, [...]

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Dude, Where’s The Conspiracy?

December 6, 2010 politics

One of the things that has always puzzled me about conspiracy theories is that they so frequently explain something that doesn’t need any explanation.  Not only that, the explanation the conspiracy theory offers is so often far more tortuous and implausible than the obvious one. For instance, John F. Kennedy was a staunch Cold Warrior, [...]

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Paradox W

November 29, 2010 politics

I’m just coming to the end of George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points.  I can already say that it’s exceptionally readable and well-written for such a book (I believe Bush’s 28-year-old former speechwriter Christopher Michel did ghost-writing duties). The book reminds us of what it was like to have a gracious and good man as [...]

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Breitbart Under the Bus

November 8, 2010 politics

I am not outraged that ABC News caved to leftist pressure and canceled Andrew Breitbart’s participation in their election eve coverage.  The network that routinely suppressed inconvenient climate-gate stories, was American-phobic when it covered opposition to the Ground Zero mosque, and anti-Arizonian in its depictions of illegal immigration, was unlikely to be stalwart in defending [...]

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Me on the Election

November 3, 2010 politics

From the City Journal website: “Republicans shouldn’t be worried. They should be in agony. They should be throwing up. Republicans had better get a better policy on prescription drugs and quickly: they’re gonna need a lot more Prozac.” Those words were crowed by Democratic strategist James Carville, who celebrated the 2008 electoral victory of Barack [...]

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My Favorite Column Last Week

October 28, 2010 politics

I recently told Glenn Reynolds that he has just about cut my productivity in half with his wickedly addictive Instapundit.  He’s a lawyer.  Maybe I’ll hire him to sue himself.  Meanwhile, I follow a link of his for the second time in two days to bring you a genuinely funny column by Pajamas pundit Frank [...]

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