The Courageous Literary Student Who Left Marxist Academia w/Liza Libes

The Andrew Klavan Show

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Liza Libes joins me for a compelling conversation about her Substack, Pens and Poison, and reveals the eye-opening experience she had as a student inside the belly of the Ivy League beast. Subscribe to Liza's Youtube channel "Pens and Poison" here: https://youtube.com/@pensandpoison https://pensandpoison.bio https://www.pensandpoison.org https://substack.com/@pensandpoison - - - Today's Sponsor: Helix Sleep - Go to https://helixsleep.com/KLAVAN for your exclusive offer. - - - DailyWire+: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://dailywire.com/subscribe 📲 Download the free Daily Wire app today on iPhone, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Samsung, and more. 📗 Read my short story "Jesus, the Movie" at the New English Review: https://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/jesus-the-movie 📕 My latest novel "After That, The Dark" is available here: https://dwplus.shop/AfterThatTheDark 📙 My Edgar nominated non-fiction book "The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness" is available here: https://dwplus.shop/KingdomofCain 📘 My memoir "The Great Good Thing" is available here: https://a.co/d/0icnKMrX 📔 "The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus" is available here: https://a.co/d/0bo2G3Tr 📚 Save the Klavan by shopping my merch here: https://dwplus.shop/AndrewKlavanMerch - - - Socials: YouTube — https://youtube.com/@andrewklavan Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/aklavan Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/theandrewklavan X — https://twitter.com/andrewklavan - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.3	When I got to Columbia, I was very much expecting these sorts of lovers of tradition,
0:47.3	lovers of the humanities, and literature I think is an exploration of what it is to be human,
0:53.3	of civilization.
0:55.3	And that is not what I got at Columbia.
1:15.9	Hey, everyone, it's Andrew Claven with this week's interview with Lisa Libes.
1:20.2	And you may never have heard of Lisa Libes, but I am very good at ferreting out talent. And I have to tell you, this is a very talented young lady who is the writer and founder of pins and poison, which is a substack and a YouTube channel devoted
1:29.2	to promoting the love of literature and the humanistic tradition. And her story is amazing.
1:34.6	Her writing is excellent, and the stuff she has to say is stuff you will want to hear.
1:39.6	Lisa, it is so nice to meet you. I've been admiring you from afar, but now I get to admire you.
2:01.7	Still from afar, but less so far. Well, thank you so much. It's so great to be on the show, Andrew. Oh, I'm really happy to get to talk to you. I was, well, I think I want to just leave it to you to tell people what happened. The video that I found that I stumbled over, when I stumbled over it, it had like 10 views and then it went up over 100,000 in a couple of days. And it was about what happened to you at Columbia
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