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Andrew to Make Vids for MI

July 12, 2011 News

Andrew and his Klavan on the Culture partner in video crime Justin Folk have agreed to produce a series of videos for the Manhattan Institute think tank.  The videos will take a humorous look at some of the serious issues of urban living and government policy that MI explores.  MI is the producer of City [...]

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Me on Steyn

June 7, 2011 Culture

Here’s a short piece I did for City Journal on the admirable Mark Steyn: Back in the nineties, when I was living in London, I stumbled on a minor columnist of major brilliance. Now and again, I’d find him in some newspaper, writing about a television show I’d never seen or a second-rate play I [...]

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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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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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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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An Unnecessary Evil

November 3, 2010 Videos

I’m no big fan of unions but some form of collective bargaining rights in the private sector seems to me a necessary evil.  In the public sector, however, unionization is a disaster–as FDR said it would be.  The difference between private and public sector unions can be difficult to explain to people, but no one [...]

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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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New Klavan Story in City Journal

August 24, 2010 News

City Journal will celebrate its 20th Anniversary this autumn with a special issue that will include a new work of short fiction by Andrew.  The Windows will be only the second work of fiction to appear in the Journal, the other having been a work by Charles Dickens.  Andrew’s story, The Windows, tells of a [...]

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