David Klion

1 week 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.

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

1 month 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.

1 month ago | theideasletter.org | David Klion

Is it really the end of the End of History? Is this the demise of the “long” 20th century? To many observers, the neoliberal hegemony that Francis Fukuyama diagnosed a generation ago appears to be over. Both liberal democracy and the globalized free market are in retreat: Anti-establishment, anti-institutional, anti-incumbent politicians skilled at extreme rhetoric have been gaining ground in many advanced democracies.