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David Klion

David Klion is a writer in Brooklyn. He is working on a book about the legacy of neoconservatism.

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May 29, 2020
David Klion
David Frum’s Hold Over the Center
The Never Trumpers styled themselves as critics of the GOP. Instead, they built up power over liberals.
March 16, 2020
David Klion
The Plot Against America’s Powerful Warning
The new HBO show, adapted from Philip Roth’s novel, imagines life under a fascist president.
January 22, 2020
David Klion
Citizen K Captures the Rise and Fall of an Oligarch
Alex Gibney’s new documentary about Mikhail Khodorkovsky presents a complex picture of a dissident.
December 12, 2019
David Klion
The Heavy Burden of The Report
The new movie about the Torture Report has to take on people who still wield enormous influence.
December 3, 2019
David Klion
What Happened to Peter Daou?
The former Hillary Clinton cheerleader is now one of Bernie Sanders’s biggest online boosters. Critics smell a grift—but maybe Daou is just being Daou.
October 15, 2019
David Klion
The Politics of Succession
Why the best show about power in the Trump era is not a show about politicians.
September 24, 2019
David Klion
The Conscience of Bret Stephens
How one columnist’s wild family history explains an increasingly isolated school of conservatism
September 18, 2019
David Klion
Covering for Roy Cohn
The new documentary about his life and circle is a study in complicity.
May 1, 2019
David Klion
Werner Herzog’s Ode to Gorbachev
"Meeting Gorbachev" captures the promise of 1989 and mourns what came next.
April 21, 2014
David Klion
Watch This Film About Belarus. It Shows Putin's Bleak Vision for Eastern Europe
March 7, 2014
David Klion
The Best Historical Analogy for Crimea Doesn't Involve Nazis
For precedent, look to Cyprus instead of Poland

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