Andrew Klavan

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Edgar-winning, New York Times Bestselling Author, Host of "The Andrew Klavan Show" at the @realDailyWire. https://t.co/OaxK4vX8pU

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Letter #260: Common Happiness

1 week ago | thenewjerusalem.substack.com | Andrew Klavan

Spengler. Here’s something interesting. I posted Monday on what I see as widespread instances of mental illness, certainly in the United States but really, it seems, throughout the West. I politicized the observation because it’s the left that has such a stranglehold on the means of information, education and entertainment and thus has greater power to spread the loony fantasies in which so many Westerners seem to be living.
Letter #258: Nutcase Nation

1 week ago | thenewjerusalem.substack.com | Andrew Klavan

Sponge. On my Friday podcast, I made some jokes centered on a study that showed large numbers of politically left-leaning people have poor mental health. This made me laugh because I’m cruel and heartless and generally indifferent to the suffering of others. Also it's true. Most studies show conservatives are more mentally healthy than left-wingers.
This Riot Is Brought To You By Shrieking Young Leftist White Women

2 weeks ago | dailywire.com | Andrew Klavan

You know, sometimes, in the hurly burly argle bargle mumbo jumbo of divisive political discourse, it becomes too easy for us to stop listening to the arguments of our opponents.
List #68: A Bygone Beauty

2 weeks ago | thenewjerusalem.substack.com | Andrew Klavan

Something that has always fascinated me is the way in which art forms and genres thrive and die. One is always hearing reviewers say things like, “He’s the new Stephen King,” or “He’s the next Martin Scorsese,” or “They’re the new Beatles.” But whenever I hear that, I always think: Why should there be a new one? There wasn’t an old one. Who said there would be another? Who even said there would be any more novels or any more movies or any more rock songs?
Letter #257: Critical BS Theory

2 weeks ago | thenewjerusalem.substack.com | Andrew Klavan

My lad. We seem to have finally perfected the Klavan Mind-Meld, which we probably should have trademarked before the Vulcans stole it. Even though, after my last e-mail, I was not thinking about Magritte’s pipe, I was, in fact, pondering the fascinating fact that we read novels, go to movies and watch shows and love and hate and weep, broken-hearted, at the deaths of characters who have never existed in real life. More than that, we seek out the experience.
Letter #257: Critical BS Theory

2 weeks ago | thenewjerusalem.substack.com | Andrew Klavan

Low blow, Klavan. Fully agree that the molestation scandal terribly harmed the RCC, and that the handling of the crimes was awful, with thousands of lives harmed or ruined for those children. Turns out that the numbers of molesters in the population of priests closely mirrors that of the general population. It is not unique to celibacy and certainly not unique to the religion which teaches transubstantiation. This statement is also a bit of a non sequitur as well.
Letter #255: Tragedies of Trust

2 weeks ago | thenewjerusalem.substack.com | Andrew Klavan

Mine son. This past Sunday was Pentecost. It spoke directly into my current thinking. This is the day when the church began. Jesus had ascended into heaven, and now, as he had predicted, the Holy Spirit descended on his followers. They began to speak “in tongues,” meaning in different languages, even languages they didn’t know. They described the works of God so that all the diaspora Jews around them could understand them.
America Now Honors D-Day By Celebrating Pride Month

3 weeks ago | dailywire.com | Andrew Klavan

Today is June 6. It was on this day, eighty-one years ago, that 150-thousand men from the United States, Great Britain, and other allied nations, landed under withering gunfire on the beaches of France to begin the brutal process of breaking the Nazi stranglehold on the once-free nations of Europe.
Letter #252: Of Androids and Mormons

3 weeks ago | thenewjerusalem.substack.com | Andrew Klavan

Sponch!“The computers work for us,” you say, “not the other way around.” You know who disagrees with you? The computers!This week in the Wall Street Journal, Judd Rosenblatt, the CEO of a software development company, wrote an article describing a new development in artificial intelligence. He says AI models have now developed the ability to rewrite their own code in order to avoid being shut down. They’ve actually begun lying to their users, faking compliance while they disable oversight programs.
Letter #250: Irrational Rationality

3 weeks ago | thenewjerusalem.substack.com | Andrew Klavan

Spence!Many years ago, I was writing a crime novel in which mobsters buried a man in the concrete foundation of a building. That way, once the building was erected, the corpse would never be found. I wanted the scene to be realistic, but how could you do the necessary research in that pre-internet age? I was sitting alone at a Christmas party when a stranger sat down next to me and started a conversation. He said he was in the construction business. So I asked him my question.