Behold the Power of the Cardboard Hashtag!
In an age of moral vanity, it is necessary only to advertise how much you care - in a passive, hand-wringing, long-distance kind of way. Half a decade ago - April 2014 - hundreds of young Nigerian girls were captured from a school in Chibok. And, although half of them are still missing or presumed dead, the good news is their seizure led to one of the great breakthroughs in virtue-signaling moral narcissism: the birth of the cardboard hashtag. With just a tilt of your head, a furrow of your brows and a cardboard hashtag held up for the camera, you too can demonstrate how much more you care than anybody else ...and all without leaving the comfort of your armchair! As I wrote back then, in a column with the striking headline ... |
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Politics & Current AffairsFire and Faith
Twenty-four hours after Notre Dame de Paris began to burn, there is better news than we might have expected: More of the cathedral than appeared likely to has, in fact, survived intact - including the famous rose windows, among the most beautiful human creations I've ever seen. The "new" Notre Dame will be mostly high up and out of sight, which is just as well given that modern man prides himself on having no smidgeonette of empathy with his flawed forebears and thus the chances of historic recreation of the animating spirit of 1160 are near zero. There is an architectural debate to be had, I suppose, about whether a reconstructed twelfth-century cathedral requires nineteeth-century appurtenances such as its spire. But the minute that ... Steyn on FoxThe Heartbreak of Notre Dame
Just before 7pm Paris time on Monday, fire broke out at Notre Dame cathedral - and, within a couple of hours, the spire and roof were gone. Tucker and Mark discussed the loss of one of the glories of Christendom live on "Tucker Carlson Tonight": Politics & Current AffairsThe Gay Blade
Gillette made an impressive contribution to the lowest-rated Super Bowl of all time by turning its "The best a man can get" pitch into an indictment of "toxic masculinity" and its own customer base. Still, there's always Gillette's line of lady razors... Steyn's Song of the WeekSan Francisco
The city that let no stranger wait outside its door - until Nancy Pelosi started to object The Mark Steyn Weekend ShowThe Sweeter Melodies Unheard
Thus Keats contemplating a Grecian urn... Mark at the MoviesThe Death of Stalin
Joking and jockeying back at the dacha Steyn on CultureAn Hegsethian Humiliation
Transgingers, transcatheters, and a "Final Exam" catastrophe... Steyn on FoxRevenge of the Deep State
Mark and Tucker on the arrest of Julian Assange: Politics & Current AffairsThe Craven Pile-On of Hollow Conservatives
Distancing yourself into the distance Steyn on the AirUnder Pressure
The Adorable Deplorables are back together! Mark joins Dennis Miller to chew over everything from changes at Homeland Security to water pressure at Niagara Falls: |
A Clubman's NotesSuppling Visibly
Welcome to the final episode of our current Tale for Our Time - in fact, a brace of tales by Rudyard Kipling about the protean world government of the twenty-first century, the Aerial Board of Control... A Clubman's NotesPillars of White Fire
The latest installment of my serialization of Rudyard Kipling's sci-fi stories about a protean world government - the Aerial Board of Control... A Clubman's NotesCrowd-Making in Chicago
Welcome to the second half of our double-bill of science fiction by Rudyard Kipling: Isn't it almost time that our Planet took some interest in the proceedings of the Aerial Board of Control..? A Clubman's NotesA Sky-Scraping Chimney Sweep
Welcome to Part Two of The Mark Steyn Club's latest Tale for Our Time - a rare venture into sci-fi by Rudyard Kipling... A Clubman's NotesKipling Does Sci-Fi
Welcome to the twenty-third yarn in these Tales for Our Time. We're going to be spending the next few days with a brace of stories featuring the Aerial Board of Control. What's that? Well... A Clubman's NotesAnnouncing... The Second Annual Mark Steyn Club Cruise
Following last year's sell-out maiden voyage, we decided to make the Mark Steyn Club Cruise an annual event. And so the second Steyn cruise will leave Vancouver on September 4th and sail through Alaska's beautiful Inside Passage to Glacier Bay. I'll be doing double-duty, hosting the cruise, and also hosting live editions of The Mark Steyn Show at sea - with among others the great Dennis Miller... On the TownTwelfth Night Live!
with Mark and his guests Comden & Green, Everything But The Girl, the Georgian Voices, Stubby Kaye, Emma Kershaw with Tim Rice, the Klezmer Conservatory Band, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Russell Nype, Paul Sorvino, Carol Welsman and Koko Yamamoto & Tal Bachman Steyn's Song of the WeekAba Daba Honeymoon
For this week's live-music edition of Steyn's Song of the Week, Maria Muldaur temporarily abandons "Midnight at the Oasis" for a wild jungle ride: Katz & CRTV vs SteynCRTV vs Steyn: The Verdict
A case that should never have been brought finally ends. The War on Free SpeechThe Vertigo at the Top of the Stick
Michael E Mann's defamation suit against me enters its Mann vs SteynFootball and Hockey
The Corner post that launched a lawsuit... |
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