The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture — 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
“As every economist knows, third-party transactions are always more expensive, whether the third party is an insurer or the government...Third-party transactions are… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate. — 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
This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy… — 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
