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KOC: The One State Solution

June 2, 2011 Videos

Just to show that PJTV’s Klavan on the Culture isn’t all frolicsome hijinks and mirthful merriment, in this edition we take time out to solve the problems of the Middle East.  Completely.  Once and for all.  In under four minutes.  And in a way that will leave you wondering:  Why didn’t anyone ever think of [...]

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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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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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KOC: Barack the Magic Suit

April 7, 2011 Videos

Today, boys and girls, PJTV’s Klavan on the Culture presents a tale of enchantment, a fabulous story about a glorious place where whatever you think should be true is true.  And who should be president of such a fantastical land?  You guessed it.  Barack the Magic Suit.  Here’s how it all happened–once upon a time… [...]

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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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Elites, We Hear You!

November 1, 2010 Culture

This weekend, leftist comedians John Stewart and Stephen Colbert held a large “Rally to Restore Sanity,” in Washington DC.  If sanity has to be restored, the implication is that Americans right now are insane. Leftist President Barack Obama doesn’t think we’re insane necessarily.  He just thinks we’re too overcome with fear to think clearly.  “Part [...]

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Last Laugh?

October 6, 2010 Culture

The humorist – and James Bond scenarist – Bruce Feirstein once said to me, “Comedy takes no prisoners.”  By which he meant that good comedy mocked the mockable whether the comedian agreed with them or not.  My biggest complaint about the arts in post-sixties America is not that they’re liberal, it’s that they’re only liberal [...]

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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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