Steyn’s Song of the Week
Monday, 06 October 2008
Bonus political Song of the Week
by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell
To launch our Campaign Countdown competition, as we enter the final month of a long election season, it seemed appropriate to offer a political Song of the Week. But it’s striking how few songs there are about electoral politics. The...
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Ave atque vale
Thursday, 02 October 2008
Paul Newman, 1925-2008
There were two Paul Newmans: He was a star on screen - one of the last real movie stars, a man who, despite himself, brought glamor to every role. Off screen, he was a rather doctrinaire leftie - a lot of celebrities are, of course, at least when mouthing...
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Steyn on People
Thursday, 02 October 2008
Just before the big summer hiatus, I wrote this column for National Review, which we never got around to posting on line. Its observations about the weakness of the Obama candidacy still seem relevant:
The conventional wisdom on the Clintons was promulgated by my then senator, Bob Smith of New Hampshire,...
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Steyn on Stage and Screen
Monday, 08 September 2008
from The Face Of The Tiger
“It was like something out of a movie.”
Not everyone said that, but enough people did, watching on television or from the streets of Lower Manhattan. At times it was even shot like a movie, the low crouch of an enterprising videographer capturing the...
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Steyn on Books
Monday, 08 September 2008
“You don’t roll out a new product in August,” said President Bush’s aide, Andrew Card, apropos Iraq in the summer of 2002. But in this seventh September of a no longer new war a somewhat battered product is in need of a rebranding.
It was launched in the days after 9/11...
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Steyn on Culture
Thursday, 02 October 2008
Four score and seven years ago … No, wait, my mistake. Two score and seven or eight days ago, Barack Obama gave the greatest speech since the Gettysburg Address, or FDR's First Inaugural, or JFK's religion speech, or (if, like Garry Wills in The New York Review of Books, you...
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