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It's Still the Demography, Stupid
Twenty years ago this month - January 2006 - The Wall Street Journal and The New Criterion published the first draft of what would become the thesis of my bestselling book, America Alone...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Taxman
April 15th marks the end of "Tax Season" in America, and Mark has a seasonal song...
Mark at the Movies
High Society
Mark sits in for our regular movie column...
Shaidle at the Cinema
Pather Panchali
Upon the centenary of Satyajit Ray, we present our late friend Kathy Shaidle's take on his 1955 classic Pather Panchali...
Steyn on Culture
From Pussyhats to Peninas
Mark on the abolition of the sexes...
The War on Free Speech
Mann's $9M Jury Lie
Doctor Fraudpants flops out again...
Ave atque vale
Hands-On Ministry
Steyn remembers the late Jesse Jackson
The Bachman Beat
An Odyssey To Ignore, Part III
After surveying the online debates, I think people are missing the most important thing about all this. It's not, as some say, that demography is always irrelevant to a story or character. But it's also not that because The Odyssey is a story about Greeks, written down by a Greek author, taking place in Greek-speaking areas, Nolan's version — or any other version — must only feature Greeks. Or even some Greeks. After all, many movies, TV series, and novels have either re-told The Odyssey, or drawn inspiration from it. Just a few movies off the top of my head: Cold Mountain, The Return, Apocalypse Now, O Brother Where Are Thou, and The SpongeBob Square Pants Movie. But no one complained about those, even where they re-situated the story and ...
Laura's Links
Double Trouble
Greetings friends, Romans and countrymen and thanks for joining us for another fresh batch of Laura's Links. First of all, I'll give you a little update about Mark. He's gaining strength each day and appreciates all the well wishes and prayers. We know that it is hard for everyone when our captain is temporarily out of commission, but rest and relaxation are the only way through! Next, a bit of an update about the schedule for the coming days! We apologize that this notice didn't get sent out earlier, but there were still a few moving pieces that we had to figure out. But fear not, we have it all organized now. Today, Thursday, we, of course, have Laura's Links. And tomorrow we have BIG, BIG, BEEEEEEG PLANS over here at SteynOnline. Yes ...
Rick's Flicks
Boss Lady: Barbara Stanwyck in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
The filming of The Strange Love of Martha Ivers happened when the Paramount lot was ringed by a picket line, part of the 1945 strike by motion picture set decorators that led to the infamous Black Friday riot outside the main gate at Warner Bros. The strike is a movie history footnote today, and though it gets aired out whenever the industry endures another labour dispute, it's hard to imagine pickets full of writers or actors today in a melee with studio security and police with "tear gas bombs, fire hoses, brass knuckles, clubs, brickbats, and beer bottles" as Variety described the two-hour battle. The strike wasn't just a fight between labour and management but between two unions over who would represent the studios' skilled workers, ...
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