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Purpose vs Passivity
Setting aside any "national security" concerns arising from letting The Atlantic's Russia-hoaxer Jeffrey Goldberg in on the Administration's Houthi-bombing call, I doubt that any creature more sentient than an amoeba can have been surprised to learn that US cabinet members "loathe" European "freeloading". If you're paying attention, you'll know that total contempt for the Euros appears to be entirely bipartisan...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Body and Soul
If you missed today's Serenade Radio broadcast, here's a chance to catch up via this SteynOnline premiere of one of our audio Songs of the Week. In this show I tell the story of one of the most recorded of all compositions...
Mark at the Movies
The Passion Of The Christ
The Gospel according to Mel...
Shaidle at the Cinema
Pather Panchali
Upon the centenary of Satyajit Ray, we present our late friend Kathy Shaidle's take on his 1955 classic Pather Panchali...
Steyn on Culture
The Prisoner of Windsor
A remote fantastical kingdom far from Europe's chancelleries of power... An unpopular monarch on the eve of his coronation... A ruling class of plotters and would-be usurpers... ...and a gentleman adventurer on holiday. No, not Ruritania in the nineteenth century, but the United Kingdom in the twenty-first...
The War on Free Speech
A Contemptible Man Punches Down
You would be hard put to find a more obvious example of "punching down" than savaging a corpse. But that's what an enduring leftie icon did, as free speech died in the west...
Ave atque vale
Avalon with Carol Welsman and Russell Malone
Mark remembers a dear friend of the Steyn Show musical family, the guitarist Russell Malone...
The Bachman Beat
Tal Bachman: Cancelled by Popular Demand: My Final Rugby Installment
Tal Bachman wraps up his epic series...
Laura's Links
Keep Your Fork!
Greetings to one and all and welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links...
Rick's Flicks
Summertime Blues: James Stewart in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Last week I wrote about Cary Grant's Mr. Blandings and his dream house, in a film released in 1948 during an international housing crisis, and just before the effects of the postwar economic boom started to be felt in the United States. This week we're fast forwarding fourteen years, to another middle-class American everyman played by another Hollywood icon, at the peak of that boom, trying to enjoy a whole hard-earned month of summer holidays. Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation came out in 1962, the same year as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the last atmospheric nuclear test, the launch of the Telstar satellite and the death of Marilyn Monroe. It was the year before Beatlemania, and the year after Judy Garland's Carnegie Hall comeback concert, the ...
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