Andrew Klavan and Queen Victoria – posted by [Peter Robinson] @ The Corner @ NRO
Today on Uncommon Knowledge, novelist and screenwriter Andrew Klavan, author of the new thriller, Empire of Lies, explains why he’s no longer a liberal:
The thing I like best about being a conservative is that I don’t have to lie. I don’t have to pretend that men and women are the same. I don’t have to declare that failed or oppressive cultures are as good as mine.
Leftism has outlived its own failure by hiding itself within the most labyrinthine construct of social delicacy since Victoria was queen.
To watch that Victorian contsruct of social delicacy being utterly demolished — brilliantly and merrily — click here.
9 September 2008
I’m a liberal, and I don’t pretend that men and women or the same or that obviously inferior cultures are better than mine. In fact, I argue for exactly the opposite! Either I’m a bad liberal, or maybe Klavan was. I’m sure he’ll find intellectual honesty comes more easily to conservatives — all evidence thus far notwithstanding.