My mom gave me this book for my birthday. Steyn is often labeled as a "conservative." But he really takes aim at the "ruling class" comprised of members of both major political parties who tell us how to leave while carving out exceptions for themselves. He has particular ire for the politicans a...
One of the more fascinating attempts at explaining the decline of the West is Mark Steyn's "America Alone." Though the main thrust of the book is the threat of Islam, Steyn examines numerous sources of decay in Western society, the upshot being that we are vulnerable to the threat only because of...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE (1870) This book isn't an argument for more war, more bombing, or more killing, but for more will. In a culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of "suttee"--the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their ...
although with that crowd “Where Have All the Showers Gone?” might have been more appropriate. The old banjo-picker lived longer than the penniless African he fleeced in his copyright heist of “Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)”; and twice or thrice as long as the average “dissenting artist” made ...