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<title><![CDATA[Spencer Klavan - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/42168.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Spencer Klavan]]></description><category domain="42168">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[We Are Clueless About What's Coming]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/opinion/interesting-times-podcast-spencer-klavan-nick-bostrom.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Klavan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What if A.I. succeeds beyond humanity'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s wildest imaginations?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Lion, the Witch and the Gender-Swap]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-gender-swap-f44bed26?st=aSu82t</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Klavan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What Lewis has to say about sex and gender is more humane, generous and profound than anything Ms. Gerwig has come up with. If she really wanted to be daring, she'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d trust her source material.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Woke 2 Will Be Worse]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/woke-2-0-will-be-worse/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Klavan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If we want to avoid a rerun of the early 2020s, then'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'to paraphrase Seuss'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'we will have to get rid of Woke 1 and Woke 2.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Nolan's 'Odyssey' Leaves Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/what-nolans-odyssey-leaves-out-0b260b18?st=yu46e9</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Klavan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The hotly anticipated mega-spectacle is, in the end, pretty good. But it isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t Homer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lupita Nyong'o Doesn't Understand the Odyssey]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/newsroom/lupita-nyongo-doesnt-understand-women-in-the-odyssey/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Klavan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In promotional interviews for Christopher Nolan's film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, the actress Lupita Nyong'o has been chastising the father of Greek epic for failing to give the women in his stories their due. Very little time is spent in the perspective of women, said Nyong'o, who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are You There God? It's Me, Spielberg]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/are-you-there-god-its-me-spielberg-7a6ef684?st=uWh2aY</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Klavan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Disclosure Day'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' director asks ancient questions about the universe and the Almighty.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Taste, Art, AI and a Clever Viral Social Experiment]]></title>
							<link>https://thenewjerusalem.substack.com/p/ceci-nest-pas-un-monet</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Klavan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, a Twitter user called'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' SHL0MS'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' posted the image above with the heading, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'i just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI[. P]lease describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Hasan Piker the Face of the American Left?]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/is-hasan-piker-the-face-of-the-american-left/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Klavan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Back in 2020, the Democrats rejected the sensible centrist position and chose Peak Woke instead, which will drag them down into the abyss.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Censorship, Self-Hatred, Apathy Have Eroded Europe]]></title>
							<link>https://thenewjerusalem.substack.com/p/america-is-the-west</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Klavan</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We are part of one civilization'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Western civilization,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' said Secretary of State Marco Rubio to a gathering of European leaders at the recent'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Munich Security Conference. It has become one of the Trump Administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s running themes that the Western tradition binds...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let's Not Idolize AI. It's an Age-Old Mistake]]></title>
							<link>https://thenewjerusalem.substack.com/p/tnj-in-wapo</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Klavan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In every generation, some advanced piece of machinery comes to seem like a model of the human mind.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden&rsquo;s WH Hostage to Ferocious Cadre of Radical Kids]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/kids-running-classroom-democrats-hamas/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Klavan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s White House is hostage to a ferocious cadre of radical children'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Racial Grifters Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them]]></title>
							<link>https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fthespectator.com%2Ftopic%2Fkendi-gonna-kendi%2F</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Klavan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Racial research now entails taking vast sums of other people's money, then using it to produce almost nothing]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Defeat Cancel Culture, Vote Republican]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/defeat-cancel-culture-vote-republican-opinion-1518933</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Spencer Klavan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More and more high-profile intellectuals of all political persuasions are rejecting cancel culture. "The free exchange of information and ideas...is daily becoming more constricted," read a letter in Harper's magazine co-signed by over 150 luminaries, including the controversial linguist...]]></description>
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