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
The same people putting Bari Weiss in charge of CBS want to run CNN too www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
September 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The same people putting Bari Weiss in charge of CBS want to run CNN too www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
"I struggle with depression but I've found something to live for: justifying starving sick children to death"
August 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"I struggle with depression but I've found something to live for: justifying starving sick children to death"
It’s very annoying Larry Summers is considered a genius when it takes him years to figure out stuff that is instantly obvious to the median lefty shitposter
July 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
It’s very annoying Larry Summers is considered a genius when it takes him years to figure out stuff that is instantly obvious to the median lefty shitposter
Tom Friedman's advice to Zohran is annoying across the board but I want to highlight this classic Friedmanism; a solid majority of Zohran's likely future constituents actually live east of the East River in Brooklyn and Queens. Very NYT to think Manhattan is all that counts!
July 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Tom Friedman's advice to Zohran is annoying across the board but I want to highlight this classic Friedmanism; a solid majority of Zohran's likely future constituents actually live east of the East River in Brooklyn and Queens. Very NYT to think Manhattan is all that counts!
I dream of writing a roman a clef about the millennial Brooklyn left media scene and being precisely this obvious about who everyone is based on
June 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I dream of writing a roman a clef about the millennial Brooklyn left media scene and being precisely this obvious about who everyone is based on
Will be participating in a live Zoom tomorrow afternoon with the great @ronnieag.bsky.social, @lilacb.bsky.social, and @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social, on "Billionaires, the Academy, and American Jewish Intellectuals," if you care about one or more of those topics! zoom.us/webinar/regi...
June 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Will be participating in a live Zoom tomorrow afternoon with the great @ronnieag.bsky.social, @lilacb.bsky.social, and @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social, on "Billionaires, the Academy, and American Jewish Intellectuals," if you care about one or more of those topics! zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Earlier this year I wrote about Stephen Miller's whole deal—how his privileged upbringing in Santa Monica was shaped from the beginning by the labor of Latin American immigrants, and how he experienced status anxiety when his family had to live among them. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
June 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Earlier this year I wrote about Stephen Miller's whole deal—how his privileged upbringing in Santa Monica was shaped from the beginning by the labor of Latin American immigrants, and how he experienced status anxiety when his family had to live among them. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Image stolen from the other site, and apparently on display at UATX
June 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Image stolen from the other site, and apparently on display at UATX
I guess Bari is still mad about this @mariabustillos.com interview, recorded a few months before Bourdain's death popula.com/2018/07/15/b...
May 29, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I guess Bari is still mad about this @mariabustillos.com interview, recorded a few months before Bourdain's death popula.com/2018/07/15/b...
After 10/7 we got sanctimonious lectures about how we need to value all lives equally. Ok, then write 25,000 equally mad columns about every two Palestinians who have been killed, and about the “cult of violence” (the overwhelming majority of the Israeli public) that supports it.
May 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
After 10/7 we got sanctimonious lectures about how we need to value all lives equally. Ok, then write 25,000 equally mad columns about every two Palestinians who have been killed, and about the “cult of violence” (the overwhelming majority of the Israeli public) that supports it.
You know me far too well
May 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
You know me far too well
"Critics were wrong when they said that Hitler's 1933-1941 actions constituted genocide—but they are right in 1942"
May 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Critics were wrong when they said that Hitler's 1933-1941 actions constituted genocide—but they are right in 1942"
When I want to know whether or not people are starving to death, I turn to a leading expert on Pras from the Fugees
May 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
When I want to know whether or not people are starving to death, I turn to a leading expert on Pras from the Fugees
Interesting cameo from the current HHS Secretary in David Horowitz’s memoir
May 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Interesting cameo from the current HHS Secretary in David Horowitz’s memoir
The maddest tweet you'll see all day
May 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The maddest tweet you'll see all day
No, Jesse, I don't want to go on your podcast; normally when someone ignores an invitation that's a cue to stop asking.
April 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
No, Jesse, I don't want to go on your podcast; normally when someone ignores an invitation that's a cue to stop asking.
Jesse and his buddies are all furious about this but the truth is this is going to be his entire legacy. His many haters warned him for like 5 years that his work was going to empower the right’s crackdown on trans people. We were all right and he’ll never erase what he did.
April 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Jesse and his buddies are all furious about this but the truth is this is going to be his entire legacy. His many haters warned him for like 5 years that his work was going to empower the right’s crackdown on trans people. We were all right and he’ll never erase what he did.
Yeah man, they made a show for grownups who can handle delayed gratification
April 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Yeah man, they made a show for grownups who can handle delayed gratification
Some would say this is a list of people who found common cause with obvious fascists and are now trying to tiptoe away from the consequences of their actions, much too late
April 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Some would say this is a list of people who found common cause with obvious fascists and are now trying to tiptoe away from the consequences of their actions, much too late
My latest essay, which I think is pretty good, includes an accurate diagnosis for why not many people are going to read it www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-wa...
April 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My latest essay, which I think is pretty good, includes an accurate diagnosis for why not many people are going to read it www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-wa...