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Sleepless in New Hampshire Mark Steyn From Head to Theo An Anatomical Anthology by Mark Steyn (Stockade Books, 346 pages, $19.95) Reviewed by Colby Cosh THERE IS A BRITISH IMAM NAMED YUSUF...

Culture Vultures: Take Back Vermonters (November 2000)

by Mark Steyn Take Back Vermonters Ruth Dwyer is one of them, and Republicans are nervous. T he Republican Party has never lacked for gutless wussies, especially when election day...

Culture Vultures: The GOP Barely Manages (October 2000)

: U L T U R E V U L T U RI by Mark Steyn The GOP Barely Manages If it didn't have bad press, it would settle for none at all. ~ have an announcement to make: Effective ilnmediately, I'm going...

Culture Vultures: Reeducating Jeff Jacoby (September 2000)

I [ a l i i l l qll d l l | i l l a"di I!1 i l dale : | Jl~1 by Mark Steyn Reeducating Jeff Jacoby The ultraextremist Boston Globe proves its bona tides. New Hampshire M ore columnar trouble at...

Culture Vultures: Must Be the Maple Syrup (July 2000)

[eNNui talk nlESjN :11 :N,'m u l mlh nniJ ~ i : i ~ by Mark Steyn Must Be the Maple Syrup The Green Mountain State is now the Civil Union State. A ll quiet on the western bank of the...

Culture Vultures: In the Absence of Guns (June 2000)

_9 / l . i l l | i l W l l ~II $ by Mark Steyn In the Absence of Guns In Britain, defending your property can get you life. C elebrity, news from the United Kingdom: In April, Germaine Greer,...

Culture Vultures: Vandals in the Churchyard (May 2000)

by Mark Steyn Vandals in the Churchyard The Western war against Christianity goes unreported. O ne typical March weekend in Brooklyn: Vandals smash the face and arms of a marble shrine to Our...

Culture Vultures: Ars Suburbia (April 2000)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Ars Suburbia I confess I've always had a soft spot for Sam Mendes, the Oscar-nominated director of the Oscar-nominated American Beauty. I make my living saying...

Culture Vultures: Color Television (March 2000)

by Mar k Steyn Color Television Brought to you in living black and white. ~ am, technically, an Irish-BelgianCanadian, so I know what it's like to be a minority in America. And, as...

Culture Vultures: Retort From New Hampshire (February 2000)

by Mar k Steyn Retort From New Hampshire Dubya connects while McCain imitates Fred Tuttle. W r e were at the Elks Lodge in Littleton and George Dubya Bush was working our table. And...

Culture Vultures: Vive Quebec Libre! (December 1999)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Vive Quebec Libre! S o I'm watching TV and a gaunt, minimally made-up woman comes on, in grainy black and white. She was nine months pregnant, she says, when her...

Culture Vultures: Tory Gay Chic (November 1999)

This is the background image for an unknown creator of an OCR page with image plus hidden text. 7 411PNEN=--:=---CULTURE VULTURES ° by Mark Steyn Tory Gay Chic And why Gary Bauer will never...

Culture Vultures: Scout's Honor (October 1999)

CU TURE VU TURE by Mark Steyn Scout's Honor "People perceive the police as very con servative," said Constable Lavallee. "But Lord Baden-Powell was more restrained than New Jersey. that...

Culture Vultures: American Restoration (September 1999)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn American Restoration 0 ne of the endearing features of the British press is their shameless lack of consistency. Having decided their angle on the story, they...

Culture Vultures: See How They Run (August 1999)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn See How They Run G eorge W. and the State of New Hampshire have at last met, and everything went smoothly—as smoothly as Bill and Monica's first meeting. Dubya...

Culture Vultures: Our Post-Television War (July 1999)

TU E VULTW by Mark Steyn Our Post-Television War American apathy on Kosovo and China is unspeakable. 0 n the Sunday before Memorial Day, I went down to my small north country town's annual...

Culture Vultures: Littleton America (June 1999)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Littleton America 2 0 t's not quite routine, but it has become I eerily familiar: thousands upon thousands of pilgrims piling up mounds of flowers to people they...

Culture Vultures: For the Children (May 1999)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn For the Children I suppose it was too much to expect Bill Clinton to bomb the Serbs without asserting that this policy decision, like all others, was for "our...

Culture Vultures: Call Off the Drug War (April 1999)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Call Off the Drug War T he State of New Hampshire doesn't require much from its school districts — a mutually satisfactory arrangement about to be abruptly...

Culture Vultures: The Senate's Footstool Fops (March 1999)

by Mark Steyn The Senate's Footstool Fops I 've been spending a lot of time in the United States Senate recently, mainly because of the president's impeachment trial (you must have heard about it;...

Culture Vultures: The Day the Music Died (February 1999)

by Mark Steyn The Day the Music Died And you can blame it all on the mickey mouse N.Y. Times. T his is war. Until December z7, I could live with Disney. I m not one of...

Culture Vultures (January 1999)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Wales of a Sex Scandal I yield to few in my admiration for this great Republic, but I was born a subject of the Crown and I hope I'll be forgiven for suggesting...

Culture Vultures: Kids Today (December 1998)

This is the background image for an unknown creator of an OCR page with image plus hidden text. man in the world, locked in combat with the government of the last superpower on the face of the...

Culture Vultures: Don't Be Fooled (November 1998)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Don't Be Fooled 2 0 S iff pread Fred": If you've driven through Vermont recently, you'll have seen the sticker on hundreds of bumpers; even if you've driven...

Culture Vultures: Everybody Does It (October 1998)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Everybody Does It E veryone does it. Everyone who calls up a radio station says everyone does it. Everyone who's stopped in the street by a TV reporter says...

Culture Vultures: Scoopie Doo (September 1998)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Scoopie Doo T hese are confusing times for casual readers of the American press. Pick up the New Republic and you find it's running what seems to be a regular...

Culture Vultures: Hooligans of Leisure (August 1998)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Hooligans of Leisure p at Buchanan is an engaging fellow, but he was never more wrong than in his observation, apropos immigration a few years back, that obviously...

Culture Vultures: Under My Skin (July 1998)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Under My Skin A s Sinatra himself wondered in another context: "What now, my love?" What now? When Frank finally faced his final curtain, checked into the big...

Culture Vultures (June 1998)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Hooked on Propane F rom my vantage point in the Granite State, I usually pay little heed to the activities of Massachusetts Republicans, who tend to be well to the...

Culture Vultures: In Search of Phil Clinton (May 1998)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn In Search of Phil Clinton S o I went to the Multiplex and said I wanted to see the Clinton film. "Certainly, sir," said the sales clerk. "We have Wag the Dog,...

Culture Vultures: Raging Bulls (April 1998)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Raging Bulls F or The Deer Hunter, Robert De Niro spent weeks on end at an Ohio Valley steel mill; for New York, New York, he learned to play jazz sax; for Raging...

Culture Vultures: Obestiality (March 1998)

by Mark Steyn Obesliality America has the weight of its weight on its shoulders. A fter blacks (or, if you prefer, persons of color) and gays (persons of orientation) and women (persons of...

Culture Vultures: Liar, Liar (February 1998)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Liar, Liar I well remember the first time I heard the name M. Larry Lawrence. I was in the hot tub with the Princess of Wales when she said, "Is it true you and Al...

Culture Vultures (January 1998)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Murphy Brownout N ineteen ninety-seven will always be remembered as the year Ellen came out of the closet, and so did Avery Brown. You remember Avery. Even in...

Culture Vultures (December 1997)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Coming to America A ccording to time-honored tradition, shortly before every British election, Andrew Lloyd Webber announces that, in the event of a Labour victory,...

Culture Vultures: Mayflower Misery (November 1997)

by Mark Steyn Mayflower Misery Conservatives are cracking up because they're losers. W by are conservatives such a bunch of losers? If you've followed the recent special editions of the Weekly...

Culture Vultures: Flush With Shame (October 1997)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Flush With Shame On page 67 of the September 1 issue of the New Yorker, you can see a reproduction of one of the most glorious of human achievements: Michelangelo's...

Culture Vultures: Boy Martian (September 1997)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Boy Martian he White House counsel, Charles T F.C. Ruff, couldn't have been clearer: the use of President Clinton's "image and words" in the Jodie Foster...

Culture Vultures: Andrew Lord Hyphen (August 1997)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Andrew Lord Hyphen A „ ndrew Lloyd Webber's music is everywhere," sniffed Malcolm Williamson, distinguished Australian composer and Master of the Queen's Musick,...

Culture Vultures: Like a Complete Unknown (July 1997)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Like a Complete Unknown, was driving along a few weeks ago I when I hit a frost heave and the radio jumped to a station playing "Like a Rolling Stone." I hadn't...

Culture Vultures: Dysfunction Junction (May 1997)

just published, you can feel the difficulty Morrison has in finding out a way to inject himself into the story, but, anxious to empathize with his celebrity killers, he puts his mind to it and...

Culture Vultures: Here Comes The Sun (April 1997)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Here Comes The Sun W hen the White House "food chain," showing the progress of anti-Clinton "conspiracy" stories through the media, appeared a few weeks back, I was...

Culture Vultures: Paint It Black (March 1997)

by Mark Steyn Paint It Black The ebonification of approved American expression. After years of black actors' complaints that they're confined to domestic servant roles, leave it to Johnnie...

Culture Vultures: The Michael Mouse Club (February 1997)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn The Michael Mouse Club Once upon a time, glossy magazines used to write about films and their stars; now, increasingly, they prefer to salivate over a handful of...

Culture Vultures: Fergie Something (January 1997)

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Fergie Something A few years ago, Radio One, Britain's national pop music station, announced that, on the next week's breakfast show, the special live studio guest...

Culture Vultures: Philip Roth at 15 (December 1996)

"Culture Vultures: Philip Roth at 15" by Mark Steyn Philip Roth at 15 Henny Youngman puts it best: "Take my wife. Please." There it is in four words, one of the most indestructible artistic traditions: the need of...

Culture Vultures: Bozo in the Hood (November 1996)

"Culture Vultures: Bozo in the Hood" Bozo in the Hood Tupac Shakur's short, violent, misogynist life....

Culture Vultures: As Seen on TV (October 1996)

"Culture Vultures: As Seen on TV" by Mark Steyn As Seen on...

Culture Vultures: Wedding Bell Blues (September 1996)

"Culture Vultures: Wedding Bell Blues" by Mark Steyn Wedding Bell Blues Is Andrew Sullivan the marrying kind?...

Culture Vultures: To the Manners Born (August 1996)

"Culture Vultures: To the Manners Born" by Mark Steyn To the Manners Born The British manners movement believes the decline...

Culture Vultures: All You Can't Eat (July 1996)

"Culture Vultures: All You Can't Eat" by Mark Steyn All You Can't Eat The first Arch Deluxe I had was at a Montreal McDonald's, and I assumed the name, if not the burger, was strictly for francophone consumption....

Culture Vultures: Dubroff Debris (June 1996)

"Culture Vultures: Dubroff Debris" by Mark Steyn Dubroff Debris Today's lesson is taken from Airplane!, for as pilot Peter Graves and doctor Leslie Nielsen so memorably put it: "Surely you can't be serious?" "I...

Culture Vultures: Everybody's Talking at Me (May 1996)

CULTURE VULTURES by MARK STEYN Everybody's Talking at Me So there we were at Paramount Studios in Hollywood for a conference—Tom (Magnum) Selleck and Pat (Wheel of Fortune) Sajak and David (Kung...

Culture Vultures: Rock of Ages (April 1996)

"Culture Vultures: Rock of Ages" by Mark Steyn Rock of Ages With a primary race this dramatic, a pundit's analysis can be moldy as old cheese by the time it hits the newsstand. But two things one can say with...

Culture Vultures: Primary Color (March 1996)

"Culture Vultures: Primary Color" by Mark Steyn Primary Color New Hampshire Around this time in the electoral cycle, friends often say to me, "I can't stand any more of this interminable presidential campaign....

Culture Vultures: The Cat in the Hat (February 1996)

"Culture Vultures: The Cat in the Hat" by Mark Steyn The Cat in the Hat There are some sentences you never expect to hear as long as you live —like "We'll be back after the break with Don Ricklcs and Bob Dylan." But...

It's the Best Time of the Year (December 1995)

It's the Best Time of the Year The American Christmas, like the songs that celebrate it, makes room for everybody under the rainbow. Is that why so many people seem to be hostile to it? by Mark...

Eminentoes /Hugh Embarrassment (September 1995)

Hugh Embarrassment by Mark Steyn H ugh Grant's sin was a simple one: he acted "out of character." Or as David Letterman put it: "If Tom Arnold and Hugh Grant were making a movie and afterwards one...

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