Steyn on People
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Jonah, you'll like this.
By the way, a reader reminds me of what I wrote on the back page of NR six years ago — May 31, 2004 — contemplating Iraq round about now:
I know what I’d like: Iraq, circa 2010, is a functioning confederal state, not a perfect democracy, but...
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Steyn’s Song of the Week
Monday, 15 March 2010
Song of the Week #161
by Paul Simon
When you're weary
Feeling small
When tears are in your eyes
I will dry them all...
When you're weary of songs that feel small, it's nice to have a song that feels big - seems to be about something more than just boy-meets-girl, goes on...
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Ave atque vale
Saturday, 13 March 2010
Had David Ahenakew died eight years ago, he would have been remembered as just another affirmative-action Order of Canada mediocrity garlanded with all the baubles of the state while lining his pockets with the spoils of institutionalized ethnic grievance. Instead, he'll be remembered as the affirmative-action Order of Canada mediocrity who jumped the tracks,...
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Steyn on Stage and Screen
Saturday, 13 March 2010
By popular demand, SteynOnline is launching a weekend movie column, picking out a pertinent picture or two from the last century or thereabouts that you might prefer to a trip to the multiplex. Just ahead of St Patrick's Day, here's Liam Neeson in the 1996 biopic of the Irish nationalist...
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Steyn on Culture
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
Whenever I write about “climate change,” a week or two later there’s a flurry of letters whose general line is: la-la-la can’t hear you. Dan Gajewski of Ottawa provided a typical example in our Dec. 28 issue. I’d written about the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit’s efforts to “hide the...
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Steyn on Books
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
Dominick Dunne died last August and with uncharacteristically bad timing—a day after Ted Kennedy. According to the New York Times, the family wanted to delay announcing his death until the Teddy ululations blew over. But, with the media diving headlong into a vat of mawkish drivel about “The Last Lion”...
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