Mark Steyn
Broadway Babies Say Goodnight is one of three books by Mark Steyn to appear on the New York Times bestseller list, a distinction shared with America Alone and After America.
Steyn was born on December 8, 1959, in Toronto, and holds Canadian citizenship. He uses both English and French. His professional roles have included journalist, writer, pundit, film critic, and music critic, a combination that places him across several distinct areas of public commentary and cultural analysis.
All three of his New York Times bestselling titles — Broadway Babies Say Goodnight, America Alone, and After America — demonstrate that his output has attracted a broad popular readership across more than one type of book. His use of both English and French is consistent with his Canadian background and origin in Toronto.
Steyn received the Sappho Award. That recognition stands as one documented instance of a formal honor conferred on him. His presence in bibliographic databases, including records held under VIAF ID 17376122 and a Library of Congress Name Authority File entry, reflects an established publishing history. The New York Times bestseller status of three titles across his catalog remains among the most concrete measures of his reach as a writer.
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Gerald Ford used to say when trying to ingratiate himself with conservative audiences, “A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have.” And that’s true. But there’s an intermediate stage: a government big enough to give you everything you want isn’t big enough to get you to give any of it back.
If any “white supremacist” were really a “supremacist”, he wouldn’t be living in his mom’s basement.
We have been shirking too long, and that’s unworthy of a great civilization. To see off the new Dark Ages will be tough and demanding. The alternative will be worse.
It is easier,” said Frederick Douglass, “to build strong children than to repair broken men.
The United States has the most powerful government, with the longest reach, of any nation in history. It is also the Brokest Nation in History. Resolving that contradiction is unlikely to be pretty.
America is now a land that rewards failure – at the personal, corporate, and state level.
Nixon’s avowedly ‘square’ White House was, in fact, less cheesy than Clinton’s Lite FM programming and more confident than the Kennedys’ culturally craven collect-the-set approach.
Demographically and psychologically, Europeans have chosen to commit societal suicide, and their principal heir and beneficiary will be Islam.
Once a fellow’s enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn’t give a hoot about the general societal interest; he’s got his, and if it’s going to bankrupt the state of a generation hence, well, as long as they can keep the checks coming till he’s dead, it’s fine by him.
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.