David Klion
Writer and Contributing Editor at Jewish Currents
Working on a book about the legacy of neoconservatism. Columnist for @thenation, contributing editor @jewishcurrents, writer for many lefty mags. KLEE-on
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1 week ago |
thenation.com | David Klion
Politics / June 20, 2025 Those Sometimes-Trump Neocons Are Returning to the Fold Over IranAs the president backs Israel’s long-awaited war with Iran, his neoconservative critics find themselves in an awkward position. Edit Ad Policy One time never-Trumper Bill Kristol—pictured here at a panel on “The Future of American Conservatism” in September—just can’t resist cheering for a bad war.
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4 weeks ago |
jewishcurrents.org | David Klion
In 1974, a 35-year-old Harvard lecturer named Marty Peretz purchased The New Republic (TNR) with $380,000 of his wife’s inherited sewing machine fortune and commenced remaking the magazine in his image. Though he came up on the activist New Left in the 1960s, Peretz had since fallen out with many of his erstwhile comrades over Israel, particularly its rejection by Black radicals.
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1 month ago |
thenation.com | David Klion
I Thought David Horowitz Was a Joke—but He Foreshadowed the Trump CoalitionAs an undergrad, I mocked the radical leftist turned reactionary. But with his cruel, vindictive politics taking over the government, he had the last laugh. Ad Policy David Horowitz, who died in April, spoke on the CU Boulder campus on February 14, 2005, about what’s wrong with various professors in US universities today.
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1 month ago |
thenation.com | David Klion
They All Signed the Harper’s Letter. Where Are They Now? They All Signed the “Harper’s” Letter. Where Are They Now? Many of those who were loudest in denouncing cancel culture then are now curiously silent in the face of Donald Trump’s assaults on free speech. Ad Policy Bari Weiss speaks onstage during a book club event with Peggy Noonan on November 19, 2024.
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2 months ago |
newrepublic.com | David Klion
Tony Gilroy, the Hollywood script doctor behind Michael Clayton and the Jason Bourne series, is known for writing taut, realistic, intelligent political thrillers. Incongruously, he’s also the mind behind Andor, the Star Wars spinoff series that debuted in 2022 and whose second and final season launches today on Disney+. Addressing skeptics of the latter, he recently told The Wall Street Journal, “It’s the best thing I’ve ever done.
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