Taqiyya for Easter
Let's say a fire breaks out at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris at the start of Holy Week, and just after two of the city's other most prominent houses of worship - St Sulpice and the Basilica of St Denis - have been attacked and vandalized. Well, I think we can all confidently say as the first flames are beginning to lick the ceiling that it's undoubtedly an accident. Cigarette butt. Or maybe computer glitch. Probably just an overheated smart phone. We don't need to get in there and sift through the debris. We can just announce it. On the other hand, when there are coordinated attacks on Easter services at several churches in Sri Lanka, it becomes a little more challenging to pass off multiple suicide-bombings killing nearly three hundred ... |
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Steyn's Song of the WeekIt's Not Unusual
At midnight on December 31st 1999, how did the world's only superpower celebrate the passing of the soi-disant millennium and a thousand years of cultural inheritance? Shakespeare? No. Mozart? Not a chance. Instead, Bill Clinton, the Lounge-Lizard-In-Chief, turned up at the Lincoln Memorial to listen to Tom Jones crank out well-loved favorites like "It's Not Unusual" - which, by happy coincidence, was also the President's defense to Paula Jones' allegations about the curvature of his, ah, "distinguishing characteristics". Millennia come and go, and Clinton is stooped and aged now, but the indestructible Welsh boyo is still on stage 250 nights a year driving women wild with "It's Not Unusual" at an age when, sadly, for many men it's all too ... Mark's Week in ReviewA Se'nnight of Steyn, April 15-21
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark Mark at the MoviesThe Passion Of The Christ
From fifteen Easters ago, Mel Gibson's blockbuster On the TownEaster Parade
Steyn on the only Easter pop standard - plus the meaning of the word "rotogravure", and whether anyone actually could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet Steyn on CultureEdelweiss über alles
Your pop-culture scorecard: Kate Smith is racist, Rodgers & Hammerstein are Nazis, and Dame Edna is done... Steyn on FoxMulling Mueller
Mark gives his initial thoughts on Robert Mueller's long awaited report: Five Years AgoBehold the Power of the Cardboard Hashtag!
Tilting your head vs #BringBackOurBalls Politics & Current AffairsFire and Faith
The sorry state of French Christendom Steyn on FoxThe Heartbreak of Notre Dame
Just before 7pm Paris time on Monday, fire broke out at Notre Dame cathedral - and, within a couple of hours, the spire and roof were gone. Tucker and Mark discussed the loss of one of the glories of Christendom: Katz & CRTV vs SteynCRTV vs Steyn: The Verdict
A case that should never have been brought finally ends. Katz & CRTV vs SteynKatz & Blaze TV vs Steyn: A Cut-Out'n'Keep Guide
Cary Katz's four Steyn suits (and counting) |
A Clubman's Notes"This Will Kill That"
Mark presents a special Tale for Our Time featuring selections from The Hunchback of Notre Dame - or, to give it Victor Hugo's title in French, Notre-Dame de Paris. Because, as much as it's about Quasimodo and Esmeralda, it's also about the building... The Mark Steyn Weekend ShowThe Sweeter Melodies Unheard
A Clubman's NotesAnnouncing... The Second Annual Mark Steyn Club Cruise
Following last year's sell-out maiden voyage, we decided to make the Mark Steyn Club Cruise an annual event. And so the second Steyn cruise will leave Vancouver on September 4th and sail through Alaska's beautiful Inside Passage to Glacier Bay. I'll be doing double-duty, hosting the cruise, and also hosting live editions of The Mark Steyn Show at sea - with among others the great Dennis Miller... A Clubman's NotesCrowd-Making in Chicago
Welcome to the second half of our double-bill of science fiction by Rudyard Kipling: Isn't it almost time that our Planet took some interest in the proceedings of the Aerial Board of Control..? A Clubman's NotesKipling Does Sci-Fi
Welcome to the twenty-third yarn in these Tales for Our Time. We're going to be spending the next few days with a brace of stories featuring the Aerial Board of Control. What's that? Well... On the TownTwelfth Night Live!
with Mark and his guests Comden & Green, Everything But The Girl, the Georgian Voices, Stubby Kaye, Emma Kershaw with Tim Rice, the Klezmer Conservatory Band, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Russell Nype, Paul Sorvino, Carol Welsman and Koko Yamamoto & Tal Bachman Steyn's Song of the WeekAba Daba Honeymoon
For this week's live-music edition of Steyn's Song of the Week, Maria Muldaur temporarily abandons "Midnight at the Oasis" for a wild jungle ride: The War on Free SpeechThe Vertigo at the Top of the Stick
Michael E Mann's defamation suit against me enters its Mann vs SteynFootball and Hockey
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