The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“The populations of wealthy democratic societies expect to have total choice over their satellite TV packages, yet think it perfectly normal to allow the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China.… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century.” — Mark Steyn Copy Share
The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“But in practice the lack of belief in divine presence is just as likely to lead to humans avoiding responsibility: if there's nothing other… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“America is now a land that rewards failure--at the personal, corporate and state level. If you reward it, you get more of it. If… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“You cannot wage a sustained ideological assault on your own civilization without grave consequences. We are approaching the end of the Anglo-American moment, and… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which is why… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
