Andrew Klavan

Virginia

Author, screenwriter. Nominated for Edgar Award 5 times, won twice. Host of "The Andrew Klavan Show" at the @realDailyWire. https://t.co/OaxK4vX8pU

Articles

CNN Airs Heartfelt Sit-Down With Masked Cartel Hitman

5 days ago | dailywire.com | Andrew Klavan

To prove that Donald Trump is a very mean person while journalists are totally compassionate and loving, CNN has aired a sympathetic interview with a member of a Mexican drug cartel. Now, I know what you’re thinking.
Letter #237: Death Still Sucks

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

Spence!Personally, I never like to mention the word Death. I’m always afraid I’ll be answered by his hollow voice behind me, like Lurch in the Addams Family: “You rang?”Yet there’s no denying it: Death not only defines the limit of life, it gives shape to life's meaning. In TheKingdom of Cain, I put forward an alternative reading to the Genesis story of the fall of man. Normally, we hear, as in Romans, that Adam’s sin brought death into the world.
Essay #15: Murder and the Imagination

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

What follows is an excerpt from the introduction of my new book The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness, which is published this week. Rejoice evermore!So Scripture commands us. But how can you rejoice in a world of so much darkness? At a time like twilight when darkness gathers, ready to fall? The comforting bromides of belief can seem pat and complacent in the shadow of very present wickedness. Everything happens for a reason. There must be evil so there can be free will.
Cory Booker Leads Sing-Along On Capitol Steps

1 week ago | dailywire.com | Andrew Klavan

Democrats have been trying to come up with a fresh, original way to express their political positions and this week they finally found one: a sit-in! An idea so fresh and original, no one has thought of it since 1968, when leftism was still cool — because everyone was taking hallucinogens, so not only was leftism cool but there was also a giant pink rat eating your feet while you screamed for mercy.
List #62: All American

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

My father was a DJ, famous in New York, the biggest radio market. His station was what was then called MOR, or Middle of the Road, playing standards sung by such stars as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett and so on. My father knew popular music well and had excellent taste.
Letter #234: Outward Bound

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

Spensoir. Reading your last, I was reminded of an old joke. Well, not an old joke, but a joke by an old person, namely me. I have often remarked that, while many people are born into their faith, my life was more like an Outward Bound program where they drop you off in the middle of the wilderness with a paperclip and a piece of string and you have to use the materials at hand to make your way home. This is true in so many ways. Trajectory is incredibly important in life.
Letter #232: Lost Enchantment

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

Mine son. An early love of mythology seems to run in our family. I had a picture book of Greek myths when I was little. It captivated me. It even enhanced my delight in star-gazing when I realized the constellations included some of my favorite characters: Perseus, Andromeda and the Kraken from the sea. When your sister was little, she had an elevated bunk-style bed to maximize the room in our small apartment.
Progressives Abandon Christianity, Become Episcopalian

2 weeks ago | dailywire.com | Andrew Klavan

I believe that America’s core ideals are very much linked to its Christian faith. So as Easter has just passed, I thought this would be a good time to take a closer look at the state of the American church and then weep quietly and say it was a great country while it lasted. Now, according to a Pew poll, 62% of Americans identify as Christian.
Letter #230: The Reality of the Unreal

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

Spence!My favorite part of your post yesterday — a post in which you argued there were no good paintings of the resurrection — was all the paintings people posted on social media to prove you wrong that proved you right. I won’t cite any one of them particularly, because that would be cruel. Funny, but cruel. And it would be a terrible thing to use the holiest day of the religious year as an opportunity for hilarious cruelty. Oh, but what the hell?
Harvard President, Adolf Ratbag, Refuses To Allow Trump To Bully Him Into Humane Behavior

3 weeks ago | dailywire.com | Andrew Klavan

In an act of heroic defiance against the oppressive tyranny of Donald Trump, the leadership of Harvard University has bravely declared that, no matter what pressure Trump brings against them, they will not surrender their constitutional right to be the worst people in the country. The conflict between the university and the administration began after hundreds of Harvard students flooded the campus calling for genocide against the Jews.