On yesterday's post-Roe edition of our Clubland Q&A, I was trying to remember the first Roe vs Wade "anniversary" piece I wrote. Upon reflection, I think this is the first, for The National Post twenty years ago. Aside from anything else, it is an early example of a point I have made frequently in the ensuing two decades and did so again yesterday. The one thing a dying west needs more than anything is babies. Abortion is therefore symbolic of a loss of faith in our own future, although it's no longer mere symbolism and has been joined by many other such, from male infertility from Covid vaccines to the shortage of baby formula, and on and on: Last week was the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade. If the greying harpies of the abortion ...
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Cilla, and a favorite Paul McCartney song...
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une 1922 continues with political assassinations in London and Berlin, and mass murder by an Illinois mob. A young fellow called Adolf Hitler goes to prison, and a hole opens up in the Lincoln Highway...
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A few Father's Day moments from across the years, featuring poems, songs and reminiscences on the theme, from Dame Vera Lynn to a neighbor of Mark's in New Hampshire...
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Mark on a great song freighted by premature death...
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A favourite song of the young Princess Elizabeth and her dashing naval lieutenant...
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The new hit singalong of The Mark Steyn Show
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Mark reads Christopher Smart's rather droll poem, "Where's the Poker?"
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Welcome along to the fifty-ninth in our series Tales for Our Time - and our first venture into the work of Anthony Trollope, although we're a long way from Barsetshire...
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Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor...
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A third strike for vanity litigant Michael E Mann
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