Our friend Andrew Klavan has a wonderful little piece in City Journal called “Culture vs. Reality: Can you spot the difference?” The man has a wonderful sense of humor as he skewers the left and their idiotic pretensions.
Ever since Pajamas TV began airing Klavan on the Culture, conservatives have been coming up to me and saying, “Ah, culture! What’s that?” Allow me to explain.
Culture in America is an enchanted place where the conservative facts of life are magically transformed into liberal fantasies. In movies, TV shows, novels, even comedy routines, our intellectuals, entertainers, and other fools are busily reshaping reality into works of art through their piercing insights into what will get them good reviews and awards, and through their rich and varied experience of the café in the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles.
His examples are priceless and typically insightful. Go to the piece and see.
Mike — I like Andrew Klavan. He’s smart, funny, and articulate, a rarity among author types, who are usually one, sometimes two, but rarely all three. The fact that he has a realistic political/cultural outlook is icing on the cake.