Columns & Essays
Politics & Current Affairs
The Absence of Men
Steyn takes a tour of our unmanned world...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
The story of an erubescent proboscis and the brothers-in-law who made it part of the American holiday season....
Mark at the Movies
The Apartment
One of Steyn's favorite Christmas movies - and oddly topical
Shaidle at the Cinema
Pather Panchali
Upon the centenary of Satyajit Ray, we present our late friend Kathy Shaidle's take on his 1955 classic Pather Panchali...
Steyn on Culture
The Prisoner of Windsor
A remote fantastical kingdom far from Europe's chancelleries of power... An unpopular monarch on the eve of his coronation... A ruling class of plotters and would-be usurpers... ...and a gentleman adventurer on holiday. No, not Ruritania in the nineteenth century, but the United Kingdom in the twenty-first...
The War on Free Speech
"The future of news"
"The risk of a 'two tier' media environment is a particular problem." Tell me about it. Alas, the Communications Committee of the UK House of Lords has something else in mind in a new report out today...
Ave atque vale
Avalon with Carol Welsman and Russell Malone
Mark remembers a dear friend of the Steyn Show musical family, the guitarist Russell Malone...
The Bachman Beat
Tal Bachman: Cancelled by Popular Demand: My Final Rugby Installment
Tal Bachman wraps up his epic series...
Laura's Links
Christmas/Chanukah/Boxing Day Links
Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the festive Internet...
Rick's Flicks
Turning the Tide: Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
Early on in The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers' 1903 novel about espionage and conflict between the Great Powers, there's a moment that's either wildly prescient or a statement of simple, brutal facts. Carruthers, a minor employee in the British Foreign Office, has sought to escape London's late summer doldrums by accepting an invitation to join Davies, an old friend from Oxford, on a sailing expedition around the Frisian Islands, where the coasts of Germany and Denmark meet. Used to wearing white flannel and blue blazers on luxurious pleasure yachts, Carruthers is shocked to discover that the Dulcibella, Davies' boat, is cramped and well-used, and that his eccentric friend expects him to put in some hard graft helping him crew it ...
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