Request of the Week
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Dear Mark,
I loved your review of "Team America" in The Spectator and would be grateful if you would run it again.
Thank you,
Grace McCleester
Las Vegas
MARK SAYS: Okay, here it comes, naughty words included. The point toward the end about the difference between men who act in the...
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Topical Take
Monday, 17 November 2008
My old BBC colleague Alistair Cooke was born in Lancashire one hundred years ago this week - November 20th 1908. He was a terrific writer who became famous as a talker - on Radio 4 in Britain and on PBS in America. A mere octogenarian whippersnapper when I got to know...
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Seasons of Steyn
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
This 90th anniversary of the end of the war to end all wars is also the first November 11th of the post-post-9/11 era. It seems appropriate to look back seven years, to the first November 11th after "the day the world changed" - Veterans Day and Remembrance Day, 2001. This essay is excerpted...
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Five Years Ago
Saturday, 08 November 2008
from The Chicago Sun-Times, November 23rd 2003
On Saturday, America remembered the day it's never forgotten: Nov. 22, 1963. Everyone, as they say, can recall where they were when they heard the news that Kennedy was shot. Even if you weren't born, you can recall it: the motorcade, Walter Cronkite...
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One Year Ago
Saturday, 01 November 2008
Is it really twelve months since I wrote this piece? "Hope" and "change" seemed stale and shopworn then, but what do I know? Apparently, the key to political sucess is to talk about "change" unchangingly:
What do you think is the critical issue in this election season? Personally, I blow hot and cold....
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Ten Years Ago
Saturday, 25 October 2008
This last week at SteynOnline, we've been marking the tenth birthday of Canada's National Post, which hit newsstands a decade ago today - October 26th 1998. You can read my very first and weirdly prescient Post column here, a column from 1999 here, one from 2000 here, from 2001 here,...
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