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Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn’s most recent book is America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It (Regnery). His writing on politics, arts and culture can be read around the world. Mark is Senior North American Columnist of Britain’s Telegraph Group, and appears in The Daily Telegraph, the United Kingdom’s biggest-selling broadsheet daily, and The Sunday Telegraph; he is also North American Editor and Film Critic of The Spectator, the oldest continuously-published magazine in the English language. In Canada, he can be read in The National Post, the country’s new national newspaper. In the United States, Mark is theatre critic of The New Criterion and a columnist for The Chicago Sun-Times. His latest book, Broadway Babies Say Goodnight, was published to critical acclaim in London and to somewhat sniffier reviews in New York.

article archive

The state despotic | June 2009

On our gradual slide into servitude.


Ol' man author | December 2008

On The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein, edited by Amy Asch.


Mah-velous, dah-ling | January 2008

On The Letters of Noël Coward, edited by James Sexton.


Twenty years ago today | November 2007

On rock music's oppressive rule over society.


What's in a name? | September 2007

On World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism by Norman Podhoretz.

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America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

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New Criterion-Social Affairs Unit Conference: Part 4

"The Criminalization of Making Money" by Lionel Shriver, Recorded 9/25/09

Posted on: 10/26/2009

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Roger Kimball, Andrew C McCarthy, Mark Steyn, Jeremy BlackJeremy Black, Tim Congdon, Daniel Johnson, Herb London, Michael Mosbacher, Lionel Shriver

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New Criterion-Social Affairs Unit Conference: Part 3

"The State and the Threat to Democracy" by Jeremy Black and "The Paradox of the Intellectual and the Future of Capitalism" by Tim Congdon, Recorded on 9/25/2009

Posted on: 10/26/2009

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Roger Kimball, Andrew C McCarthy, Mark SteynJeremy Black, Tim Congdon, Daniel Johnson, Herb London, David Pryce-Jones

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New Criterion-Social Affairs Unit Conference: Part 2

"Nice 'N' Easy: The Age of Micro Tyranny" by Mark Steyn, Recorded on 9/25/2009

Posted on: 10/23/2009

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Roger Kimball, Andrew C McCarthy, Mark SteynJeremy Black, Michael Mosbacher, Tim Congdon

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New Criterion-Social Affairs Unit Conference: Part 1

"The New Statism or Democratic Despotism Comes of Age" by Roger Kimball and "The Islamist Left Versus the Constitution" by Andrew McCarthy, Recorded on 9/25/09

Posted on: 10/23/2009

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Roger Kimball, Andrew C McCarthy, Mark SteynMichael Mosbacher, Jeremy Black, Tim Congdon

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'The Dimming of Liberty: Legal Jihad and the Criminalization of Resistance,' KEYNOTE ADDRESS from Free Speech in an Age of Jihad:

Libel Tourism, “Hate Speech,” and Political Freedom, a conference held by The New Criterion and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Posted on: 04/10/2008

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Roger Kimball, Mark Steyn

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