Steyn on Britain and Europe
Tuesday, 06 January 2009
After my travails up in Canada at the hands of the thought police, the drawing-a-line-striking-a-balance lingo here sounds very familiar. Britain's "Culture Secretary" discusses the dangerously unregulated Internet:
This is not a campaign against free speech, far from it; it is simply there is a wider public interest at stake when...
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Steyn on America
Saturday, 03 January 2009
I was at the mall two days before Christmas, and it was strangely quiet. So quiet that, sadly, I was able to hear every word of Kelly Clarkson bellowing over the sound system "My Grown-Up Christmas List." Don't get me wrong – I love seasonal songs. "Winter Wonderland" – I...
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Steyn on the World
Tuesday, 30 December 2008
A propos my post below, many readers point out a flaw in Zac Bissonnette's argument that college is a giant waste of money:
Not to be pedantic, but the article you cite in your "Subprime education" post is incredibly misleading. Obviously the fact that 54% of college entrants hadn't earned a...
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Steyn on Canada and the Commonwealth
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Today is Human Rights Day, the day that commemorates the United Nations' adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights exactly 60 years ago - December 10th 1948. To be honest, I had no great interest in a day dedicated to human rights until agencies of the Canadian state started trying to...
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