politics

Me on Juan

October 22, 2010 politics

I have a piece up in City Journal on NPR’s firing of Juan Williams: Here’s some news for the folks at National Public Radio. Everybody’s nervous about Muslims on planes. Why? Because Muslims blow stuff up. Not all Muslims, of course. Not even a large percentage of Muslims. But enough Muslims all over the world [...]

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Journothugs

October 20, 2010 politics

The beauteous Dana Loesch and presumably internally beauteous Alex Marlow and the rest of the gang at Andrew Breitbart’s altogether beauteous Big Journalism have once again been shining a light on The Degraded Profession–this time as it’s practiced in especially degraded Chicago.   You gotta watch the video below to believe it. Last week, radio talk [...]

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The Shame of The “Times”

September 20, 2010 politics

We all know by now how the left reacts to the presence of the truth:  the screaming, the name-calling, the hysterical slander; the way they designate the craziest Koran-burning, abortionist-shooting nutcase they can find to represent the right; the way they demonize commentators like Rush and Coulter and Glenn Beck, without ever engaging with their [...]

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Inside Obama’s Brain

September 16, 2010 politics

I’m very wary when people try to psycho-analyze their political opposition.  It’s fun, I know – and unavoidable sometimes.  But in general, it strikes me as a suspiciously easy way of avoiding out-and-out confrontation with their ideas.  After all, just because some guy is a self-righteous clown who tries to make friends in men’s room [...]

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Plague!

September 15, 2010 politics

If you haven’t yet, you should discover the Broadsides series from Encounter Books.  These are short pamphlets in which top experts discuss urgent political issues that are in the news right now.  Excellent for winning arguments with your annoying liberal brother-in-law – or you can just roll one up and smack him with it. Last [...]

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More on Islamophobia

September 7, 2010 politics

Just before leaving on my first vacation since 1873, I produced a Klavan on the Culture video on the so-called Ground Zero Mosque, asking the musical question:  Does Islam Suck? KOC, of course, is satire, but I addressed some of the same issues more seriously and precisely in a City Journal article entitled “Name-Calling:” Whether [...]

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Censoring Me

August 17, 2010 politics

The impressive Jamie Glazov, editor of the likewise impressive Frontpage Magazine, did a quick but intense interview with me last week.  It was headlined “Censoring Klavan” and dealt mostly with the recent cancellation of Empire of Lies in France.   We did touch on other subjects however.  For instance, here’s me on the Ground Zero Mosque: “I [...]

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You Just Don’t Get It, Maureen

August 11, 2010 politics

The left doesn’t even understand its own philosophy! New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd last week gave an unspirited semi-defense of Michelle Obama’s Marie Antoinette routine in Spain.  Michelle, as you no doubt know, spent vast amounts of your money on a lavish Spanish vay-cay giving the big finger to the rest of us as [...]

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Me in City Journal on the Media

July 27, 2010 Culture

The truly estimable City Journal has posted my reaction to–well, to several things:  Journolist, Breitbart and the cancellation of my novel Empire of Lies in France for “political and religious” reasons: The book’s French cancellation is, I realize, a rather small cultural event. Yet it gives specific color to the recent revelations on the Daily [...]

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Columbia VS The Murdoch Effect

July 19, 2010 politics

Columbia University is the place where leftists give leftist journalists Pulitzer Prizes and then tell each other how prestigious leftist journalism is because—wow!—look at all the Pulitzers they’ve won. This week, the president of Columbia, Lee Bollinger, wrote a specious opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, crying that American journalism, dying in the free [...]

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