Andrew Klavan

2 weeks ago | dailywire.com | Andrew Klavan

Trust in the news media has dropped so far that after people watch Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation,” they check their wrist to make sure she hasn’t stolen their watch. A new Gallup poll shows that 53% of Americans believe journalists are two-faced, lying dirtbags who have sunk so low they could walk under a snake’s belly with a top hat on. 36% say they couldn’t do it with a top hat but probably could with a derby or maybe a fedora.

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

There has been no development more destructive to Western freedom and greatness than the left’s almost complete monopoly of our entertainment industry. I feel reasonably certain my career as a screenwriter ended when I began to express right of center views. And I know for sure the publishing industry has made it more and more difficult for novels by white men, especially conservative white men, to find their way into print.

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

Mine son. One of the funny things about technology is that it creates the illusion of progress. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say, it is itself a kind of progress, but only one kind, and it creates the illusion that that progress is more general than it really is. When I was starting out as a novelist, if I wanted to research a location or a way of life, I had to go to the library. Fill out a slip of paper with a pencil stub. Hand it to an ancient servitor who walked at the speed of evolution.

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

Spong. First, thank you to Carl Trueman for providing this month’s essay. When we started this site, we had a conversation on which living intellectuals we actually admired. We both simultaneously said, “Carl Trueman.” We then fell into an uncomfortably long silence before we came up with a few other names. It was great to see him here. Carl’s essay recalls us to our original subject: how to face the onrushing explosion of technology without losing our humanity.

3 weeks ago | dailywire.com | Andrew Klavan

As we all know, in last November’s presidential election, Donald Trump defeated what’s-her-name and left Democrats trailing Republicans in popularity by a margin of approximately everybody to nothing. Now, Democrats are trying to find a new way forward that does not involve finding a new way forward.