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Andrew’s Film Essay in New Anthology

April 14, 2013 News

A new anthology of essays entitled The Beholden State: California’s Lost Promise – And How to Recapture It will include a long piece by Andrew.  The essay, The Lost Art of War, originally appeared in the Winter 2008 issue of City Journal.  It traced the developing anti-American and leftist slant of Hollywood war films culminating in the unprecedented [...]

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Buy My Book or America Will Fall!

November 11, 2012 Books

Okay, I’m joking. But as I wrote in City Journal this week, if we want to reclaim the culture for what is good and true, we need to start putting financial and intellectual resources into three areas: the news media, the entertainment industry and the academy. And I am in the entertainment industry and I [...]

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My Post-Debate Thoughts in City Journal

October 7, 2012 politics

My friends at the terrific City Journal website seem to have caused a bit of a stir by posting my reflections after the first presidential debate: Even before his inauguration, Barack Obama was an imaginary man, the creation of his admirers. Think back to the 2008 Time magazine cover depicting him as FDR, the Newsweek cover of the same [...]

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Andrew’s Favorite Joke Revealed!

March 19, 2012 News

An essay by Andrew entitled “No Joke” will appear in the next issue of City Journal, and should be available online, appropriately enough, early in April.  The article tells Andrew’s favorite joke and explains why many fiction writers think it’s the funniest joke ever told — and why no one else thinks it’s funny at [...]

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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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