Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn
Mark Steynis a Canadian author, writer, and conservative political commentator. He has written five books, including America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, a New York Times bestseller. He is published in newspapers and magazines, and appears on shows such as those of Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, and Sean Hannity...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 December 1959
CountryCanada
self europe culture
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.
ambition hands order
Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.
political president more-money
The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.
history half morbid
When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.
political saboteurs form
Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.
happiness success men
When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.
hate cities america
If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.
hollywood film muslim-terrorists
Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.
fate bystanders government
To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.
government choices over-you
Apparently the pro-choice types who jump up and down in the street demanding that you keep your rosaries off their ovaries are entirely relaxed about the government getting its bureaucratics all over your lymphatics.
dies nations
When the family dies, the nation follows...
dog biscuits nobel-peace-prize
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 hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.
rights government numbers
The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff.
world amount beaten
There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.