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Mark Steyn's
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Steyn on Books

THE STATE DESPOTIC

Wednesday, 01 July 2009

Driving north out of New York the other day, I heard a caller to Mark Levin’s show discuss his excellent book Liberty and Tyranny. The word she kept using was “inevitable”: The republic felt exhausted, and there was an “inevitability” to what was happening. A quarter-millennium of liberty seemed to...

Steyn on Stage and Screen

ICE AGE

Monday, 29 June 2009

The new Ice Age movie - the third in the series - is out this week. I confess I never thought the original had the makings of a franchise, but what do I know? Here's what I had to say in the Speccie back in 2002: A prehistoric squirrel has a problem: he's...

Steyn’s Song of the Week

DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE

Sunday, 28 June 2009

Song of the Week #132 by Leonard Cohen Dominion Day looms, and, although I'm not in favor of the onerous "Canadian Content" regulations to which radio stations from Victoria to Gander are subject, we do like to tip our hat in a generally northerly direction this time of year. In A...

Ave atque vale

BEYOND THE PALE

Thursday, 25 June 2009

Michael Jackson, 1958-2009 For a while, the weirdness exercised a global fascination. The prestigious Oxford Union invited him to address their members, and Michael Jackson flew in to Britain wearing his trademark surgical mask, a wise move considering the country was then in the grip of Mad Cow Disease. On an official...

Steyn on People

EMPATHETIC REGULAR OLD GUY IN COACH

Wednesday, 10 June 2009

In a different world, this might qualify as a compelling personal story: High school seniors Terrence Stephens and Jason Ankrah, star football players at Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg, Md., were sitting on a plane returning from a recruitment session at the University of Nebraska when they struck up a...

Steyn on Culture

BOY ON THE RIGHT

Monday, 25 May 2009

I made what I think was my podcast guest-hosting debut last week, sitting in for Wendy Sullivan on the first anniversary of her radio show, talking politics, telling tales, and spinning a few platters: You can hear the results here. The show made Kathy Shaidle's radio review and seems to have...

THE STEYNONLINE HIT PARADE

Mark's most popular Songs of the Week

1) HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS (1944)

2) TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME (1908)

3) SOLILOQUY (from Carousel) (1945)

4) THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC (1862)

5) BUTTONS AND BOWS (1947)

6) AUTUMN LEAVES (1945)

7) SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES (1933)

8) THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT (1939)

9) GUESS WHO I SAW TODAY (1952)

10) MONSTER MASH (1962)

By popular request: The book of the Song Of The Week!

A SONG FOR THE SEASON

From Auld Lang Syne to White Christmas via My Funny Valentine, Easter Parade, Summertime, Autumn Leaves - plus songs for St Patrick's Day, baseball season, Father's Day, Halloween, and never before published essays on Ain't Misbehavin', Loch Lomond and more:
A musical year with Mark!
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