Topical Take
Monday, 15 March 2010
The death at the age of 100 of my fellow New Hampshirite and sometime Senate candidate Granny D reminds me of one of the curious features of the 2000 presidential campaign: roadside grannies. With hindsight, their preoccupations were a portent of what was to come. Here's what I wrote in National Review:...
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Five Years Ago
Saturday, 13 March 2010
Half a decade back, something rather unusual happened. For just a moment, the true nature of the Irish Republican Army briefly swam into focus in Washington:
Happy St Patrick’s Day to my fellow hyphenated Irishmen. And the good news about this St Paddy’s Day is that for the first time...
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Request of the Week
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Hi Mark,
As you mentioned on The Corner, even Thomas Friedman in The New York Times is now changing his story on Bush and Iraq after their recent elections. You wrote a "Happy Warrior" column at the time of Abu Ghraib that I can't find on the web but which...
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Ten Years Ago
Saturday, 06 March 2010
It's Oscar Night at SteynOnline. Earlier this week we looked at nominees such as Quentin Tarantino and Helen Mirren, and at the eponymous statuette himself. In my days at the Speccie, I would often write up the ceremony itself. Here's how things looked on Oscar Night a decade back:
Credit where it's due. The trick...
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Seasons of Steyn
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Happy Valentine's Day!
Happy Valentine's Day, a day on which we anglophones struggle under one of the worst burdens in a world which has otherwise blessed us: the word "love." The French for "love" is amour, which rhymes with dozens of other useful words - toujours (always), jour (day), carrefour...
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One Year Ago
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
I've written about the Geert Wilders trial in the current issue of Maclean's in Canada, but in fact the wheels of what passes for Dutch justice have been turning for a year now. This column is from National Review:
The other day I found myself wondering when the conversion rate...
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