FULL VIDEO: Andrew Klavan Speaks At UT Austin

LIVE NOW: in conjunction with YAF, Daily Wire's Andrew Klavan joins us at The University of Texas at Austin to speak to the students about the political narrative, and which side of the aisle controls it most. The speech will be followed by a student Q&A, so stay tuned!
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[@Tohlemiach]

This may be one of the greatest speeches I've ever heard. Klavan, you've been my favorite Daily Wire member for a long time, but you're now officially one of my favorite media people of all time.

[@mrpops09]

Great job Andrew Klavan. This was a phenomenal speech.

[@itsrockitt]

These kids give me hope for the future.🙂

[@AlainTabangin]

Another thing we should change is the public school system. I graduated high school 2013 and man are they liberal. I had a teacher tell me military children would go around killing people or some history teacher telling the students that the south is the most racist place in the US. Weirdly enough when the army sent my family to North Carolina I didn't see any of that racist propaganda that they taught me. When I actually got here I was very scared to go off base but the people are much friendlier compared to SoCal. That was the day I left my liberal bubble and turned conservative. To be honest liberal are pretty racist because they believe because your colored you need thier "protection", nonsense I can protect myself without anyone's help, I also dont need government handouts.

[@ronbooth3651]

the South was the way they described, back when the Democratics ruled the South, from 1820's to civil war, end of reconstruction to ~ 1980.The Democrats had their terrorist organization, the KKK, to help them keep control. President Jimmy Carter then lost the south to President Ronald Reagan (blue dog Democrats joined with the Republicans)

[@kw1199]

Shadd Jack.. your right and its incorrect. I live in Chicago and can tell you the working class white neighborhoods here are very racist and they don't even care, many of them embrace it. typically they live in Irish or Polish islands surrounded by blacks and they are unapologetic in that they hate blacks lol

[@thereaction18]

The north was so racist they abolished slavery just to get rid of black people.

[@raygartargaryen5927]

The Reaction What they are trying to say is that Northern Democrats are pretty racist. I am part black and have had the same experience. Also, I am from the South. Also, nice try trying to distort the issue and conflate things. It is possible for Democrats in the North now to believe ignorant things and be racist. In fact Democrats have a legacy of racism. No one is saying the South never had problems with racism back then, and obviously held slaves. The Democrats were the ones who wanted to keep slaves, no matter North or South, so you’d have to explain that one too. Steven Douglas was a Chicago Democrat for slavery against Lincoln. But, for you to put out that nonsequiter as if it just totally makes his point moot is intellectually dishonest. Southern people are not racist as white people up north claim. Many of them have never even seen the South and claim this as if they know better than us Southern blacks, yet when we try to explain our experience of it not being true, all that talk of listening to blacks for diverse opinions goes out the window. Claiming that the people in the south are blanket racists is just as dumb as claiming that all people of European ancestry are secretly racist just because western civilization influenced the world. Please look before you leap.

[@raygartargaryen5927]

The Reaction To clarify the above, the point was to say that systematic racism does not exist in the south and northern white people are the main people perpetuating this nonsense. That is what makes them kind of racist. Making judgements on a race of people without evidence is racist. And making broad brushed claims on an entire group of people without evidence is foolish. Obviously individuals can be racist but that’s not really anything anyone can do anything about. Whites constantly telling blacks that racists are out to get them is racist because not only is it not true, it infantilizes blacks and prevents them from getting opportunities and assimilating into American society.

[@kw1199]

Klavan is way better than Shapiro

[@peterjansen8262]

He's older and had different life experiences. He's not better than Shapiro, he's different.

[@vincer7824]

Peter Jansen Agreed, he has a gentleness and more relaxed quality that Ben seems to lack at times. Not better, just different.

[@FourOf92000]

They're better at different things. I listen to them both.

[@genevieverachele6511]

Conservative speakers are getting better. I’ve noticed a lot of excellent speaking going on lately. This conversation from Klavan was great!

[@roberts6644]

I didn’t know he was here at UT. I go to UT! Then again, I took off Facebook, Twitter and Instagram off my phone.

[@ryanchase6705]

Big Sexy So much for old fashioned word of mouth

[@BLOPS2ps3]

a&m is better

[@HisMajesty99]

Big Sexy yeah he was in the RLM at 6 today, not many people knew about the event, they didn’t do a good job of getting the word out

[@roberts6644]

That’s a terrible place to host. I guess I only listen to Ben every day

[@willglynn1231]

Big sexy I didn't know either and i'm here and super pissed off that I didn't hear about it, klavan be my spirit animal

[@johnhall8364]

He is one of the most inspiring speakers I ever heard. His artful blending of factual truth, morality, commonsense and goodness. A great American!

[@ShayCGoat]

This was really great! Sharing to my social media people

[@amandagriffin1751]

I love Ben and Michael at the Daily Wire.... but I love Andrew infinitely more. I joined for Ben and stay for Klavan. He's made me cry a few times and laugh a thousand times.

[@Siegetower]

When will they invent a microphone that will not broadcast that horrible sound of a speaker pouring water down their throat. Love Klavan, love Bill Whittle, hate intimately hearing them drinking.

[@kanteannightmare]

ASMR.

[@TylerO_O.]

I never really listened to klavan philosophically or lecture. I watch the show sometimes I watch Ben daily Andrew a few times a week and knowles ever so often. Idk why i cant get into his show Anyway His background is interesting I didn't know all that I have to check out his books as well. Seems like a really thoughtful reasoned fella. i like him a lot more now. He's like thee conservative father I never had because my biological father was an alcoholic and a DEMOCRAT hahha

[@1943ofour]

PezAnt Tree I started watching Shapiro at first but now Klavan is my favorite. He’s so reasonable and he does not badger you into exploring a different point of view.

[@papercut7141]

MD D same, and I really like the dynamic between the two. It's like Ben's a soldier but Klavan's the sage behind him. Very interesting people they've got over there Wait I forgot about Knowles...I guess he's the jester?

[@bubsbirdbearakacharolaimon9520]

My sentiments exactly!

[@wrefordjones4021]

Andrew I was simply blown away when I watched my first of your talks. I really respect your story and your standards. Your closest" landsman" and is also one of my heroes. As I am a Christian I value your following of my Saviour Redeemer. I look forward to your next production / appearance. Don't stop doing what you are doing. May God's richest blessings abide upon you and your family. ✝️🙏👏🌹

[@brokenprismnelson7724]

They own the megaphones more than the narrative. Let's speak LOUDER.

[@lukesalazar9283]

brokenprism Nelson louder with?... Crowder?

[@nex6058]

American Sniper was GREAT!

[@lukesalazar9283]

N Ex neah...

[@sandrapotts9743]

You should read the book it was awesome best one of the best books I've ever read American Sniper

[@autobotsNdecepticons]

Yup. "Progressive" = regressive definitely sums it up.

[@Hard_Boiled_Entertainment]

Did the video snip off the beginning? It starts in the middle of Andrew talking about something!

[@henryv4222]

The United States are not the only nation of different peoples united by an idea. The UK is not "the Angles" - it's picts, Celts, Spaniards, Saxons, Vikings, Jews, Nornans and Angles - under the Westminster system, and before that the magna Carta. I agree with much more than I disagree with, but I would like to see a debate on republic v constitutional monarchy, between Mark Steyn and Andrew Klavan.

[@FreakazoidRobots]

I'd rather see a discussion with someone like Sargon of Akkad. He seems to know quite a lot about history.

[@axelord4ever]

Obviously modern countries are amalgams of smaller, older nations. All of the Peoples listed above were separate until brought together. That still leads to the idea that the resultant is a nation based on ethnic/cultural roots. As such, the _Frontier_ that was The Colonies in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries were really something different. It was, by rule of law, an extension of the British Empire. The Revolutionary War (War of Independence) really threw everything up into the air. With the birth of the United States of America, the country was made _In Principia_ to be unrecognizant of anything other than the individual and his liberties/duties. That, in other words, was not a nation of _a people,_ but a nation of _the people._ Klavan is being very informal about this. I'm sure there could be a lot of fun to be had discussing this with him. I'm not one to nitpick at oversimplifications made _in passing_ to spot a point if the more fine explanation does it all the same.

[@mattk7251]

Oh man, I would of attended if I knew. =/

[@cutazabutton]

When I listen to the left, my beliefs become more sound. I ain't a leftist.

[@CarlosRodriguez-dh7mm]

Somebody needs to start protesting Klavan's events. Get a little publicity through it and then he's selling out venues like Shapiro.

[@lilliedoubleyou3865]

To the point that "The Right" doesn't know how to tell stories, it does make me cringe. This hasn't always been the case. Actually, Hollywood was decently conservative for awhile - and then the '60s happened. Major writers used to espouse conservative (and classical liberal) ideas...and then the postmodern era happened. It's not that being on the Right means being bereft of creativity or artistic vision...it may have become that way, but it didn't used to be. Even the perception that only the Left can be creative or artistic is really damaging.

[@laurah6748]

I find your disussion of the importance of narrative interesting, especially on light of JRR Tolkein's, and more recently J Peterson's emphasis on myth. More importantly they emphasize the deep truths of myth that can't be discovered in any science book (or graphs and charts of data for that matter). Perhaps this is also why Hollywood could not sell their version of the Afgan/Iraq War but Clint Eastwood could. People find truth narratives more compelling because they recognize it in their own human experience.

[@AlanaMosheim]

Good Luck Andrew!

[@danielweberdlc]

Sad I couldn't go to see AK - he picks the only night I have an existing commitment to show up :-(.

[@Hard_Boiled_Entertainment]

The Friends of Abe actually still exists; it's just not as ACTIVE as it used to be. Its Facebook page started back up last year.

[@ChrisTian-cb5my]

There are no E's in Klavan

[@neilstone9988]

Many of my democratic friends hunt

[@doubleuponbob3397]

This speech is great, but Klavan's rushed water drinking gives me anxiety. Slow down, Klavan, and actually swallow the water before you start speaking again.

[@Saint_Wolf_]

Ranking of the Daily Wire members: Andrew Klavan > Michael Knowles > Shen Bapiro > Ben Shapiro > -boomer shit- Matt Welsh

[@Hard_Boiled_Entertainment]

I share Andrew's frustration. WHY don't the Conservative donors think to buy up women's magazines, or to buy or invest in creating a Hollywood studio? But they POUR their money in a "vital" voting district!

[@macclift9956]

For some people, playing the victim card IS their "best life;" seemingly their only talent! If society makes the victim card the trump card, it must expect consequences!

[@geraldfrost4710]

Cars don't kill a person a minute. They kill a person every fourteen minutes. 40k people a year? pshaw. you'd have to get up to half a million a year! Okay, because the average plane crash is like 300 people, it doesn't mater that it happens once a year, it's a hella body count. Most car crashes kill one or two or four people, so outside of county wide coverage who is going to care? Sorry, mister dead person and ten grieving people. When there are 300 dead and 3,000 grieving relatives, that gets the headlines. "if it bleeds, it leads" means if it has more blood then that particular incident is on the news. Never mind that the blood from individual car crashes is in volume greater than plane crashes, you don't get to see it all in one flooding lake. individual car crashes are background noise; one big crash is covered on every news station in the nation!

[@kanteannightmare]

Missing the point entirely. He didn't say it was about the body count, he used it to make his point.

[@geraldfrost4710]

@@kanteannightmare The point being that what is in the news is what people think about. What if it's in the news, but it isn't there because of nefarious narrative. What if what's in the news is about human interest, and flaws in human interest (quantity in a minute rather than quantity in a year) is the human sensitivity point. People think statistics are boring. I think statistics are easily manipulated, and therefore not interesting. Heart disease killed more last year than covid, but we haven't shut down our economy and fought a war against fat people with slogans like "if it saves just one life, it will have been worth it!" We didn't use obesity to double the national debt. We couldn't; the optics and fear weren't there. But 300 people die in a plain crash, and that's news.

[@txlonghorn0728]

HOOK'EM HORNS!!!

[@chrstphrdyer]

George rules!!!

[@joant9425]

OMG around 37 minutes, any of my bff's holla. Damn.

[@CarlosRodriguez-dh7mm]

56:30 Mr. Klavan... you do work for a news outlet...

[@sandrapotts9743]

Carlos Rodriguez he works for the daily wire

[@darknessviking]

he is too nice so people dont want to ask him mean questions, but in a way its fun too i mean compared to ben who hits supertough and gets tough questions back. two sides of the coin i guess

[@Hard_Boiled_Entertainment]

Heck even BEFORE American Sniper, The Hurt Locker came out in 2008...with NO POLITICS in it! And it did MUCH better than the crap that came before. Because Katherine Bigelow GOT IT.

[@derekbeck1982]

Gleen Beck became a religious zealot. Not because of his subscription model. I've been following him since the Tea Party started. He's more preacher then political activist. Nothing wrong with that, but a lot of people have separated religion and politics as it was intended to be. Now I understand WHY religion is so important to him, he hit a rough patch in his life. Was weak, where religion gave him strength. But it also alienate a lot of non-religious or 'softcore' religious people.

[@blessedalcuin]

Who says religion is "intended to be separated from politics"? You did, of course, but the founding fathers didn't. They wanted the American citizen to be moral and upstanding. And don't pull the "deist" card out of your ass because they weren't deists the way you're thinking--the eighteenth-century deist was a far cry from the twenty-first century deist.

[@ironheadedDoF]

Yo, Drew. Love your works and ideas and courage to speak. Dislike your recording drinking water: dont need to hear it. Move the mic away from throat when getting hydration, please

[@blessedalcuin]

How odd. I never hear it.

[@ducoftexas]

Truman lives under a dome...just like us....

[@lukesalazar9283]

Am i the only one who didnt fall head over heels for "The Godfather"?

[@blessedalcuin]

/raises hand But I'd read any OTHER book by Mr Klavan.

[@catsaresocute650]

They justify it by them being Moral. It's not that they don't belive in morality that word just means something elntirly diffrent to them and that's somewhat or to some degree why their langauge has different meanings.

[@ValerieJupe]

Why don't women ever ask questions at these things??? so weird. Also - these kids seem so timid. I don't recall UT being like that when I went back in the early 2000's.

[@williamatallah6329]

What do you mean by timid? The hall was small and wasn't completely packed, the event wasn't really advertised enough, frankly

[@ValerieJupe]

It probably wasn't, do you live there? And I wasn't talking about the size of the audience, I meant the ones that did ask q's seemed so shy and star struck. Wasn't making a judgement just an observation.

[@williamatallah6329]

I was the guy in the black shirt with the handicap guy carrying a gun lol. A lot of the kids in line were actually highschoolers so I don't blame them, but you're right overall, people were a little nervous overall. You're fine btw, I was just asking what you meant, not offended or anything haha

[@ValerieJupe]

Ha! That's crazy - you're literally the one exception I thought of when I was writing my comment. You were incredibly well-spoken. Do you do public speaking a lot or something?

[@williamatallah6329]

Haha, thank you. No, I wish I did, my ideas aren't cool enough just yet

[@NoticiasdelMundoalReves]

yoo

[@lukesalazar9283]

Johnnn blood pressure

[@janb7589]

Read Ecclesiastes.... King Solomon - the wisest man who ever lived documented life as it is and reached the right conclusion - hope you can agree too. bless you all.

[@clearvisionoftruth2332]

he is Completely WRONG about OSWALD killing JFK. I expected more of him. Apart from that, I liked the talk

[@bignigga2238]

ClearVision OfTruth and another conspiracy theorist just great

[@JV-tg2ne]

ClearVision OfTruth - Oswald killed Kennedy period

[@lukesalazar9283]

ClearVision OfTruth who did then?

[@almcdonald8676]

Wake up sheeples! Kennedy was killed by the illuminati and the NWO. Also the Knights Templar which is in league with the Vatican and David Ickes lizard people who fund CERN so that they can manufacture dwarf universes to rule over and grow the fungus that they eat on the bodies of our children. The front for this organisation is Planet Pizza. Or Planned Parenthood. It’s the same thing really. Also don’t believe climate change or something.

[@lukesalazar9283]

al McDonald oh!! You see i was always told it was just the c.h.u.d.s that were after him for trying to expose them for the plights they are. Silly me.