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Politics & Current Affairs

It's Still the Demography, Stupid

Twenty years ago this month - January 2006 - The Wall Street Journal and The New Criterion published the first draft of what would become the thesis of my bestselling book, America Alone...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

My One and Only Love

A great Ukrainian song...

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Mark at the Movies

High Society

Mark sits in for our regular movie column...

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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...

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Steyn on Culture

From Pussyhats to Peninas

Mark on the abolition of the sexes...

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The War on Free Speech

Mann's $9M Jury Lie

Doctor Fraudpants flops out again...

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Ave atque vale

Hands-On Ministry

Steyn remembers the late Jesse Jackson

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The Bachman Beat

Girl Power

As the #MeToo year of 2017 rolled toward winter, women across the land continued to rage. Like numberless rivulets flowing in from mountain, hill, and plain, the accusations of abuse - wholly true, partly-true, and wholly fabricated - all eventually combined into one great flood, saturating everything. That meant social media posts, water cooler conversation, magazine articles, TV interviews, human resource policies, proposed legislation and beyond. Along with the rage came female exultation at the power to destroy a man's career, marriage, life, with just an accusation. But in those charged days and weeks, a different kind of exultation was occurring inside a tall grey skyscraper smack dab in the middle of Manhattan. The address was 500 ...

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Laura's Links

Mamdanistan

Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the internet...

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Rick's Flicks

The Battle of the River Plate: Powell and Pressburger go Back to War

The collaboration between director Michael Powell and writer/producer Emeric Pressburger began on the eve of World War Two and built up a considerable head of steam making films for and about that war...

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