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Articles by Andrew Klavan

Frost/Nixon: The Liberal Film As Conservative

I finally got around to watching Frost/Nixon, and I was struck by how often the conservative view of the world–that is to say, reality–snuck in past the filmmakers’ strenuous attempts to bar the door against it. We see, for instance,

Curses!

I write crime novels for a living. They are full of men–and other disreputable types–who talk like men talk and think in the words men think in. As a result of this, I frequently get letters from my fellow conservatives

What The Nominations Tell Us

Benjamin Button??? You gotta be kidding me. I spent three days watching Benjamin Button one evening and if that’s not the emptiest, most meaningless piece of high gloss semi-entertainment produced last year than I don’t know my American Idol. I

Why We Fight

This is by way of a friendly response to the estimable Jay Nordlinger, Senior Editor at the likewise estimable National Review. Jay wrote a strong column yesterday openly saying what I’ve been hearing many conservatives express tacitly ever since the

Hooray For Big Hollywood

When it comes to deploring the leftist hegemony in Hollywood, I can deplore with the best of them. It stinks that America-bashing and God-bashing and military- and capitalism-bashing–the usual cowardly leftist conformism parading itself as courage–continue to alienate audiences and