Steyn’s Song of the Week
Sunday, 04 January 2009
Song of the Week
by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
What do these five songs have in common?
“The Way You Look Tonight”, “Thanks For The Memory”, “Over The Rainbow”, “When You Wish Upon A Star” and “White Christmas”.
Answer: They were all Academy Award-winning songs from the Best Song Oscar’s first...
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Steyn on Books
Sunday, 04 January 2009
Samuel Huntington's key point in his most famous book is that the conventional western elite view of man as homo economicus is reductive - that cultural identity is a more profound indicator that western-style economic liberty cannot easily trump.
This should have been obvious: If a man is a Muslim...
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Steyn on Stage and Screen
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Mark's New Year Movie Vault
We’ve come to that time of year when we critics advise you to skip New Year’s Eve and rent a movie instead. Better yet, rent a New Year movie, for it’s a curious fact that almost any film about December 31st somehow takes on the same...
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Ave atque vale
Monday, 29 December 2008
Mark Felt, 1913-2008
Three years ago, we finally learned the identity of "Deep Throat" - Mark Felt, who died yesterday, having outlived almost all the other key players of Watergate. This is what I had to say about him in back the summer of 2005, in The Chicago Sun-Times:
One by one, the...
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