Spencer Klavan

Nashville

Host at Young Heretics

Host at The Claremont Review of Books Podcast

Author at Rejoice Evermore

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Articles

When to Stop Being Nice

6 days ago | thefp.com | Spencer Klavan

Welcome to Things Worth Remembering, in which writers share a poem or a paragraph that all of us should commit to heart. This week, Spencer Klavan, host of the delightful Classics podcast Young Heretics, recalls the wisdom of his favorite “good bad” movie: Road House.
Letter #249: We Babel-Builders

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

Dad,There’s a meme I love that just shows a handle of Jack Daniels wrapped in the dust jacket of That Hideous Strength, the novel of elite corruption by C.S. Lewis that you mentioned.
Letter #247: Lest We Forget

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

Dad,Alright, enough politics. Back to God. Not that our little detour into the gutter wasn’t charming and edifying. It was a reminder—lest we get fat and happy and forget—that we live in a mosh pit at best and a killing field at worst. American Christians are more liable than maybe any others in history to mistake their own comfort and safety for the normal state of the world. Good problem to have! May it never be solved.
The List #65: Empire! The Variety Show

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

Our discussion this week about the fiasco surrounding Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis, and the retrospectives on his cognitive decline, reminded me how bizarre the Biden years were for an American who grew up knowing who was in charge. You may not have liked the Bush or the Obama or the Trump presidency, but you knew it was Bush, or Obama, or Trump you didn’t like. That’s kind of the point of elective government, or at least it was supposed to be.
Democrats in Glass Houses

2 weeks ago | americanmind.org | Spencer Klavan

Egads! The Democrats! I had almost forgotten about them. I’m sure they’d prefer we all did, at this point. Ineffectiveness and obscurity would be better than whatever the hell this train wreck is that we’re watching now. It feels indecent even to discuss, like commenting on someone’s unsightly facial deformity. But I suppose we must. What truly amazes me is that people like CNN’s Jake Tapper and The View‘s Joy Behar still consider themselves authorities on when it’s appropriate to talk about what.
Letter #246: Democrats in Glass Houses

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

Dad,Egads! The Democrats! I had almost forgotten about them. I’m sure they’d prefer we all did, at this point. Ineffectiveness and obscurity would be better than whatever the hell this train wreck is that we’re watching now. It feels indecent even to discuss, like commenting on someone’s unsightly facial deformity. But I suppose we must. What truly amazes me is that people like Jake Tapper and Joy Behar still consider themselves authorities on when it’s appropriate to talk about what.
Letter #244: All the Light We Cannot See

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

Dad,I have this problem that my happiest and most exciting days are also the most boring to talk about. Say I get dinner with a friend. He opens the conversation like everyone does: what’s new with you? And somehow that basic question leaves me gaping like a fish. What’s new? Well…nothing. And everything!! I sat at my desk and wrote my book, I went to the gym, I made dinner. But the work was an adventure and the dinner was bliss. How to put that into words?
Letter #241: Inside-Out World

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

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our livestream last night! The video is now available for paid subscribers to watch. As we said on the call, we really do need your support to keep this going, so please consider upgrading if you haven’t already. Dad,Call it the Anakin Skywalker theory of good and evil: he could only become Darth Vader because he began as the most promising Jedi. Only the chosen one could fall so far.
VR and the Future of the Arts

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

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Letter #239: A Sight for Sore Eyes

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

Dad,Glad I could catch you for dinner last week as you swept through Nashville on your glamorous book tour. Looking forward to seeing you again tomorrow at 6pm E.T. for our livestream (subscribers only). In the meantime, let’s play another round of Obscure Philosophers Bingo. There was this one guy, Dionysius (who injured his upper trapezius...OK not really. But that would be funny). Actually Dionysius had an eye disease.