David Klion
@davidklion.bsky.social
Working on a book about the legacy of neoconservatism. Columnist for The Nation, contributing editor at Jewish Currents, writer for many lefty mags. KLEE-on
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Satisfying review profile by @davidklion.bsky.social
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/stephen-miller-hatemonger-biography
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/stephen-miller-hatemonger-biography
The Cruel World According to Stephen Miller
How did he become the Trump era’s architect of hate?
www.thenation.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Satisfying review profile by @davidklion.bsky.social
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/stephen-miller-hatemonger-biography
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/stephen-miller-hatemonger-biography
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A coda:
"Part of why [Biographer] Guerrero was able to speak with so many of Miller’s acquaintances—including his estranged uncle David Glosser, who has compared his nephew to the Nazis—is that Miller is so unrepresentative of the world he grew up in." www.thenation.com/article/poli...
"Part of why [Biographer] Guerrero was able to speak with so many of Miller’s acquaintances—including his estranged uncle David Glosser, who has compared his nephew to the Nazis—is that Miller is so unrepresentative of the world he grew up in." www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Cruel World According to Stephen Miller
How did he become the Trump era’s architect of hate?
www.thenation.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A coda:
"Part of why [Biographer] Guerrero was able to speak with so many of Miller’s acquaintances—including his estranged uncle David Glosser, who has compared his nephew to the Nazis—is that Miller is so unrepresentative of the world he grew up in." www.thenation.com/article/poli...
"Part of why [Biographer] Guerrero was able to speak with so many of Miller’s acquaintances—including his estranged uncle David Glosser, who has compared his nephew to the Nazis—is that Miller is so unrepresentative of the world he grew up in." www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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In this excellent interview @davidklion.bsky.social says Free Press frequently reported out consequential leaks. No one registers it as reporting because those leaks were immediately used to club down critics of Trump & Gaza. Tag teaming with power not fighting it
www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...
www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...
What Bari Weiss Is Really Up To
On The Time of Monsters: David Klion on Trump's ideological enforcer.
www.thenation.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
In this excellent interview @davidklion.bsky.social says Free Press frequently reported out consequential leaks. No one registers it as reporting because those leaks were immediately used to club down critics of Trump & Gaza. Tag teaming with power not fighting it
www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...
www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...
No two people I'd rather podcast about Norman Podhoretz's legacy with than @jeetheer.bsky.social and @ronnieag.bsky.social
The Living Legacy of Norman Podhoretz
On The Time of Monsters: David Klion and Ronnie Grinberg on a founding father of neo-conservatism.
www.thenation.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
No two people I'd rather podcast about Norman Podhoretz's legacy with than @jeetheer.bsky.social and @ronnieag.bsky.social
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So much fun getting to talk with BOTH @jeetheer.bsky.social and @davidklion.bsky.social about Norman P for Jeet's podcast for The Nation.
I had a blast talking to @davidklion.bsky.social & Ronnie Grinberg about the legacy of Norman Podhoretz, who died last week and whose historical importance is underrated even among his fellow neo-cons. www.thenation.com/podcast/poli...
The Living Legacy of Norman Podhoretz
On The Time of Monsters: David Klion and Ronnie Grinberg on a founding father of neo-conservatism.
www.thenation.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
So much fun getting to talk with BOTH @jeetheer.bsky.social and @davidklion.bsky.social about Norman P for Jeet's podcast for The Nation.
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Back in September I talked to the most diligent of Bari Weiss watchers, @davidklion.bsky.social, about what she was up to. His analysis remains the best guide to the mess at CBS www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...
What Bari Weiss Is Really Up To
On The Time of Monsters: David Klion on Trump's ideological enforcer.
www.thenation.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Back in September I talked to the most diligent of Bari Weiss watchers, @davidklion.bsky.social, about what she was up to. His analysis remains the best guide to the mess at CBS www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...
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the influential lib-turned-paleocon-hawk Norman Podhoretz died this week. I think about @davidklion.bsky.social's assessment of his memoir quite often: jewishcurrents.org/the-making-a...
The Making and Unmaking of the Podhoretz Dynasty
Fifty years after Making It , a neocon's memoir re-examined.
jewishcurrents.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
the influential lib-turned-paleocon-hawk Norman Podhoretz died this week. I think about @davidklion.bsky.social's assessment of his memoir quite often: jewishcurrents.org/the-making-a...
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Exactly whom I wanted to read about Podhoretz, whose world we are definitely living in now
For @thenation.com, here's my obituary of Norman Podhoretz—the last canonical New York intellectual, and the first of a now-familiar breed of discourse demagogue
The Longest Journey Is Over
With the death of Norman Podhoretz at 95, the transition from New York’s intellectual golden age to the age of grievance and provocation is complete.
www.thenation.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Exactly whom I wanted to read about Podhoretz, whose world we are definitely living in now
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My first job out of college was securing permission to republish content in textbooks. One time as part of the job I talked to him on the phone, asking to reprint some ancient piece of his. He was reluctant to agree because he basically said he no longer believed what he had written, lol.
For @thenation.com, here's my obituary of Norman Podhoretz—the last canonical New York intellectual, and the first of a now-familiar breed of discourse demagogue
The Longest Journey Is Over
With the death of Norman Podhoretz at 95, the transition from New York’s intellectual golden age to the age of grievance and provocation is complete.
www.thenation.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
My first job out of college was securing permission to republish content in textbooks. One time as part of the job I talked to him on the phone, asking to reprint some ancient piece of his. He was reluctant to agree because he basically said he no longer believed what he had written, lol.
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"It’s fitting, then, that Podhoretz’s final piece of writing, published this April, landed at The Free Press, Bari Weiss’s latter-day neocon website."
For @thenation.com, here's my obituary of Norman Podhoretz—the last canonical New York intellectual, and the first of a now-familiar breed of discourse demagogue
The Longest Journey Is Over
With the death of Norman Podhoretz at 95, the transition from New York’s intellectual golden age to the age of grievance and provocation is complete.
www.thenation.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"It’s fitting, then, that Podhoretz’s final piece of writing, published this April, landed at The Free Press, Bari Weiss’s latter-day neocon website."
For @thenation.com, here's my obituary of Norman Podhoretz—the last canonical New York intellectual, and the first of a now-familiar breed of discourse demagogue
The Longest Journey Is Over
With the death of Norman Podhoretz at 95, the transition from New York’s intellectual golden age to the age of grievance and provocation is complete.
www.thenation.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
For @thenation.com, here's my obituary of Norman Podhoretz—the last canonical New York intellectual, and the first of a now-familiar breed of discourse demagogue
I was at the Ackman keynote, a squalid affair but also an illuminating one. Wrote it up for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Ackman's donations were the obvious subtext of the whole event. jewishcurrents.org/the-end-of-t...
December 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I was at the Ackman keynote, a squalid affair but also an illuminating one. Wrote it up for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Ackman's donations were the obvious subtext of the whole event. jewishcurrents.org/the-end-of-t...
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A piece Olivia Nuzzi published yesterday (as part of a Substack Q+A) called "Signs Your Book Rollout Has Gone Awry":
December 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A piece Olivia Nuzzi published yesterday (as part of a Substack Q+A) called "Signs Your Book Rollout Has Gone Awry":
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Bonus - Liberal Zionism After Gaza w/ @davidklion.bsky.social
David Klion joins the show to talk about fractures in the American Jewish community and institutions.
Link in the replies.
David Klion joins the show to talk about fractures in the American Jewish community and institutions.
Link in the replies.
November 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Bonus - Liberal Zionism After Gaza w/ @davidklion.bsky.social
David Klion joins the show to talk about fractures in the American Jewish community and institutions.
Link in the replies.
David Klion joins the show to talk about fractures in the American Jewish community and institutions.
Link in the replies.
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Wild that Trump is doing viral marketing for @davidklion.bsky.social's book
November 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Wild that Trump is doing viral marketing for @davidklion.bsky.social's book
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All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
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The White House has posted a photo that shows Bari Weiss was in the room for the 60 Minutes interview of Donald Trump.
Weiss is obscured, but she's just to the right of Norah O'Donnell.
Weiss is obscured, but she's just to the right of Norah O'Donnell.
November 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The White House has posted a photo that shows Bari Weiss was in the room for the 60 Minutes interview of Donald Trump.
Weiss is obscured, but she's just to the right of Norah O'Donnell.
Weiss is obscured, but she's just to the right of Norah O'Donnell.
Men would rather release a crudely recorded, willfully anti-commercial album about heartland serial killers than go to therapy.
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Is a Biopic Without Mystique
Jeremy Allen White plays the Boss as a man haunted by the past and terrified of forming meaningful human connections.
newrepublic.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Men would rather release a crudely recorded, willfully anti-commercial album about heartland serial killers than go to therapy.
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
October 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
I slated about Bari
Everything’s Coming Up Bari
She sure knows her audience.
slate.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I slated about Bari
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Great @davidklion.bsky.social review of One Battle After Another. The Coates point changed my view of today & tomorrow when I heard it.
“not that things will necessarily be better in my lifetime, but that I will make the contribution that I am supposed to make.”
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
“not that things will necessarily be better in my lifetime, but that I will make the contribution that I am supposed to make.”
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left
The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”
newrepublic.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Great @davidklion.bsky.social review of One Battle After Another. The Coates point changed my view of today & tomorrow when I heard it.
“not that things will necessarily be better in my lifetime, but that I will make the contribution that I am supposed to make.”
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
“not that things will necessarily be better in my lifetime, but that I will make the contribution that I am supposed to make.”
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
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"One generation’s failure to defeat fascism becomes the next generation’s shot at redemption, and the next after that, one battle after another. It’s not much consolation, but under our present circumstances it’s the only honest one." Great piece by @davidklion.bsky.social
How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left
The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”
newrepublic.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"One generation’s failure to defeat fascism becomes the next generation’s shot at redemption, and the next after that, one battle after another. It’s not much consolation, but under our present circumstances it’s the only honest one." Great piece by @davidklion.bsky.social
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First reading of @davidklion.bsky.social was his thoughtful review of The Outsider. Have since relished his political writing, now at Nation. Fitting to read here his 5-star review of 5-star One Battle After Another, both a delight: David does sublime movie justice.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left
The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”
newrepublic.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
First reading of @davidklion.bsky.social was his thoughtful review of The Outsider. Have since relished his political writing, now at Nation. Fitting to read here his 5-star review of 5-star One Battle After Another, both a delight: David does sublime movie justice.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
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It's so hard to describe this amazing movie, but @davidklion.bsky.social did it. Tho my read of its "when" is that it starts in 2026 & jumps to 2042. The hopeful explosions of the French 75 is where we are; Sensei's careful underground networks is where we're going.
October 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It's so hard to describe this amazing movie, but @davidklion.bsky.social did it. Tho my read of its "when" is that it starts in 2026 & jumps to 2042. The hopeful explosions of the French 75 is where we are; Sensei's careful underground networks is where we're going.