Steyn on Culture
Friday, 30 October 2009
I met Flemming Rose, the editor at Jyllands-Posten who commissioned the Mohammed cartoons, in London last year, so I was interested to know the kind of people who want to kill him:
Two men from Chicago who went to military school in Pakistan face terrorism charges for allegedly targeting the Jyllands-Posten...
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Steyn’s Song of the Week
Thursday, 05 November 2009
Song of the Week #145
An audio celebration of Johnny Mercer
All this month at SteynOnline we're marking the centenary of one of the most successful and prolific of American songwriters, born November 18th 1909. We'll be observing the anniversary in our traditional Song of the Week format on the next four...
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Steyn on Stage and Screen
Friday, 30 October 2009
Mark’s Movie Vault
HALLOWEEN HORRORS
Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire, adapted by Anne Rice from her own novel, appears to be a sort of vampiric version of Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin — you remember, the paean to gay parenting which led to Clause 28 or Section 29 or Stalag...
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Steyn on Books
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Seven and a half years ago, a girls’ school in Mecca caught fire. Many of the pupils were able to escape the burning building, but unfortunately they ran straight into the hands of the mutaween, Saudi Arabia’s “religious police,” who flayed them for having fled the conflagration without first putting...
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Steyn on People
Saturday, 10 October 2009
As the feminists used to say in simpler times, "What part of 'No' don't you understand?"
Quite a lot, if the reaction to Roman Polanski's arrest is anything to go by. I didn't know, for one thing, that, if you decide to plow on regardless, the world's artists will rise as...
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