Praise For “Long Way Home”

February 27, 2010

Daniell Crandall posts a glowing review for The Long Way Home with our friends at The American Culture.
“Andrew Klavan’s latest grabs you at the opening, with a life or death knife fight in a public library’s bathroom, and never lets go. With this book, Andrew goes head to head with video games for kids’, and [...]

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“The Wire” Vs The Facts

February 26, 2010

The Wire is one of the best television shows I ever saw, that anyone ever saw.  Created by David Simon, who wrote the sensational true crime book Homicide:  A Year On The Killing Streets, it’s a cops and robbers show about the mean streets of Baltimore so realistic it’ll make your teeth ache.  It’s also [...]

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Klavan On The Culture: What Liberals Believe

February 25, 2010

Hoopdedoo!  It’s time for the latest PJTV video, Klavan on the Culture.  Today, the intrepid Klavan, whoever he is, tries to understand the liberal mindset, an expedition into the heart of darkness worthy of Stanley Livingstone, whoever he is. Justin Folk, whoever he is, provided the visuals. That’s his actual brain onscreen.

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A Good Education

February 24, 2010

I’m a bit embarrassed to say I stayed away from this movie because I assumed it was part of Hollywood’s ongoing attempt to normalize child sexuality and win sympathy for child molesters.  I have friends who believe this is actually some kind of conspiracy.  I don’t – but I do believe it’s a real phenomenon, [...]

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“Shutter” Bugs Me

February 23, 2010

I know, I know, it’s a big hit.  Still.
Dennis Lehane’s novel Shutter Island is a bagatelle but a good one, a very enjoyable beach read by one of our top crime writers.  There’s just about enough weight and matter there for one of those hour-long Twilight Zone episodes.  Might go an hour and a half, [...]

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The Anti-Jesse Jackson Jesse

February 22, 2010

My City Journal feature on Jesse Jackson’s nemesis, the Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, is now available online here.  It’s called “A Man Alone.”  I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who speaks his mind so plainly and so completely without fear despite the political incorrectness of his opinions.  No hate, no anger, just courage and [...]

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Tiger Woods’ Sex Life And Me

February 20, 2010

The perfect golf swing, as I understand it, involves having your upper body act almost independently of your lower body.  Tiger Woods was so expert at this, he was actually able to use his upper body to take back his club while his lower body was banging every woman for miles around.  Normally, I would [...]

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Me At OneNewsNow

February 19, 2010

A brief article up at OneNewsNow.com has me pointing out the obvious:  that Christians are far too often the bad guys in mainstream entertainment.  Frankly, though, I think it goes beyond that.  We are in a strange place where so-called mainstream entertainment doesn’t represent the mainsteam at all and in no area is that more [...]

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The Mount Vernon Statement

February 18, 2010

Yeah, this is good, very good.  I especially like this passage, a bit of much-needed taking the plank out of our own eyes:
“A Constitutional conservatism unites all conservatives through the natural fusion provided by American principles. It reminds economic conservatives that morality is essential to limited government, social conservatives that unlimited government is a threat [...]

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Dull Bright Star

February 17, 2010

It would be difficult to overstate what the poet John Keats has meant to what I’ll laughingly call my life and thought.  His poems, his letters, his biography – they’ve all been a major source of inspiration to me and touchstones for what it means to be a writer in the world.  There was a [...]

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