Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Secretary of State Clinton dared Iran on Monday to let her hold a town-hall meeting in Tehran.” That’s telling ’em. If the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
We're told the old-school imperialists were racists, that they thought of the wogs as inferior. But, if so, they at least considered… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
...we live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts,… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
