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<title><![CDATA[Mark Steyn - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14817.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Mark Steyn]]></description><category domain="14817">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Winning in Iran...? Or Graham and Levin's Latest Lost War?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/16097/as-world-burns</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Time to dust off the "Mission Accomplished" banner?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Iran Worth Losing the Midterms Over?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/16091/up-the-escalator</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Week Three is underway. Every goatherd on the planet knows that the way to beat America is simply to outlast her: "We have all the time," as I quoted yesterday. What is the precise point at which a swift surgical strike (which the US can do) becomes a war of attrition (which the US...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blow Up Tehran, Surrender New York and Virginia?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/16079/the-ground-we-surrendered</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So Colonel Shah survived the century's worthless unwon wars including "America's longest war" - Operation Enduring Freedom (how'd that endure, by the way?) - only to come home and die at the hands of one of his "fellow Americans" screaming - go on, take a wild guess; yeah, bingo! -...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You're Fired! A Lively Weekend in Caracas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/15873/youre-fired</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A lively start to the weekend in Caracas: the US military flew in, seized the President and his wife, and for good measure (according to local rumour) bombed the mausoleum housing the remains of Hugo Chavez. Then they flew out, and, per Marco Rubio, "anticipate no further action against...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 'Randomness' of Attacks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/15827/a-lot-of-randomness-about</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('~').';'Some readers have wondered why I have not commented on the weekend shooting at Brown University. That's chiefly because I have no insight into the event you haven't heard from others:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On the Beach]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/15824/on-the-beach</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Saturday's'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' On the Town'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' I played the late Ted Egan's classic song "We Got Some Bloody Good Drinkers in the Northern Territory" - and wondered afterwards: "Does it get any more Australian than that?"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As the Dust Settles on Fordow, Trump Better Not Lose Home Front]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/15404/things-that-dont-change</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the dust settles in the smoking crater where that big Iranian mountain used to be (your mileage may vary), I remain, as I said yesterday, full of foreboding. But what do I know?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More War: Challenges Ahead for Israel]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/15383/more-war</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So far, for Israel, it's going well: they have destroyed the Republican Guard headquarters and killed its commander, General Salami. In other targeted assassinations, the head of the Iranian army is dead, as are more than ten nuclear scientists, and various other bigshots, including at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pierre Poilievre: Losers Gotta Lose]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/15249/losers-gotta-lose</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So in the end two-and-a-half years of Pierre Poilievre micro-gatekeeping the Tory party so as not to frighten the horses counted for less in Canadian politics than two-and-a-half hours of Tony Blair having dinner at Lady Rogers' agreeable Michelin-starred River Caf'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';' in West London.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tapped Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/14908/tapped-out</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I think of the fire hydrant as a quintessential bit of American iconography. Yes, they predate the United States, going back to the sixteenth century and the spread of piped municipal water systems in Europe and Asia. But, if you asked the average person to picture a fire hydrant, his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Underwater' in North Carolina...and Michigan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/14675/underwater-in-north-carolina-and-michigan</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ms Harris is reported by her fellow Democrats to be "underwater" in Michigan. That's the great divide in American life: for the likes of Kamala, the scary words are now strictly metaphorical; out there in the sodden hinterland, they're literal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Jew-Free Ivy League]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/14221/strolling-while-jewish</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('~').';'Happy Passover, the holiday when American Jews attempt to pass over'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' an Ivy League campus'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and British Jews attempt to pass over'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a Central London thoroughfare. Surveying the scene at Columbia, Powerline's Scott Johnson posts a picture of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Nazis preventing Jews from entering the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ukraine: Washington's Money Laundering, Bribery Machine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/12187/war-in-europe-day-five</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the two-time prime minister of Malaysia, is an unlovely man in many respects but not without some memorable observations. In 2010 he announced he'd changed his mind on whether 9/11 was an inside job, because he'd been to see James Cameron's film Avatar: "There is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Hinge Moment of History]]></title>
							<link>https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17695/hinge-moment-history</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have lived in countries that have real domestic terrorism movements.... No country blessed enough not to have a domestic terrorism movement should be inventing one. We are living in a blizzard of lies. [W]e are more dependent on a handful of woke]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Does Fox News Have Graham On Night After Night?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/11659/biden-says-defund-the-global-police</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A fortnight ago, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' wrote: With respect to Afghanistan, the puppeteers waggling the dead husk that is Joe Biden have made a political calculation - that, on the home front, the fact of departure will count for more than the manner of departure. Joe's not a ubiquitous figure in the news...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Closer Look at the Buffoonocracy That Runs the U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/11605/dead-superpower-walking</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The War on Terror began with men plunging to their deaths from the highest floors of skyscrapers hit by airplanes; it ended with men plunging to their deaths from the undercarriage of a US airplane taking off from what's left of "Hamid Karzai International Airport" (the signs will be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[General Milley and the Scale of Humiliation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/11598/the-scale-of-humiliation</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That's the point to remember: if you're an Afghan schoolgirl, today is the fall of Kabul; elsewhere, in the chancelleries of allies and enemies alike, it's the fall of America. Even by their usual wretched standards, the world's most somnolent media are struggling to stay up to speed on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Indispensable Man: Rush Limbaugh, 1951-2021]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/11078/the-indispensable-man</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of Rush Limbaugh, a giant of American broadcasting, a uniquely talented performer, and a hugely generous man to whom I owe almost everything.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[4 Years Later: National Review's Decline Continues]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/10014/going-ape-four-years-on</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Programming note: This evening (Air Canada permitting, which is looking a bit dicey at the moment), I'll be back with Tucker Carlson, live coast to coast at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific - with a rerun for West Coasters at 9pm Pacific. If you're in the presence of the receiving apparatus, I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boffo Boris: Why Tony Blair's Constituency Went Tory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/9913/boffo-boris</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whatever one feels about Boris Johnson (and almost any one who's had any truck with the man has, if he's honest, highly mixed views) today's election is a spectacular triumph for him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sophisticated Stupidity of the Elites]]></title>
							<link>http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1219/steyn120919.php3</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The attack on London Bridge - no, not the 2017 attack, the new one - broke just as I was heading off to guest-host Tucker Carlson's show at Fox News.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Michael E Mann, Loser]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/9742/michael-e-mann-loser</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the turn of the century, Michael E Mann's "climate change" hockey stick was the world's most famous and instantly recognizable scientific graph, tirelessly promoted by UN propagandists and mailed by governments around the world to each of their citizens as the pretext for whatever...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tinker, Tailor, Clapper, Carter, Downer, Halper, Spy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/8667/tinker-tailor-clapper-carter-downer-halper-spy</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As I think most persons paying attention now realize, the investigation into foreign interference with the 2016 election was created as a cover for domestic interference with the 2016 election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Tale of Two Bills]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/8613/a-tale-of-two-bills</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By strange serendipity, Bill Cosby was convicted of three counts of sexual assault on the day Juanita Broaddrick marked the 40th anniversary of her rape by Bill Clinton. Mr Cosby is eighty years old and likely to die in prison; Mr Clinton is still, in every sense, at large.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Total Failure of the State]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/8492/a-total-failure-of-the-state</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Churches Close, The Mosques Open &amp; The West Fades Away]]></title>
							<link>https://www.steynonline.com/7751/the-incoming-roar</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week was a fairly typical one in 21st century headlines:'&#'.ord('~').';'On Monday, 14 victims were killed in an Islamic terrorist attack on the St Petersburg Metro;]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Julian Assange Shamed Comey Into Action]]></title>
							<link>http://www.steynonline.com/7573/the-questions-that-were-never-put-in-public</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Laws Are for the Little People]]></title>
							<link>http://www.steynonline.com/7564/laws-are-for-the-little-people</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just ahead of tonight's final debate (from which I shall be several thousand miles away):As I've said for years - on radio, TV and in print - for me the overriding issue in American politics is the corruption. In the Obama era, we have seen the remorseless merging of the party and the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nitwits of the D.C. Consultants' Round Table]]></title>
							<link>http://www.steynonline.com/7479/nitwits-of-the-round-table</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some American readers, observing the wide range of telly shows I've been doing in Australia, have written to ask why I'm not on US TV more. Well, the short answer is I never get asked. The phone never stops not ringing. I make no complaint about that: I'm a foreigner and I have no...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Humiliation at Sea]]></title>
							<link>http://www.steynonline.com/7420/the-humiliation</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Steyn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's no point pretending the illegal seizure and release of America's sailors is anything other a huge propaganda victory for Iran - and a humiliation for the United States. Insofar as there was a strategic calculation behind Obama's outreach to the mullahs, it was that the nuclear...]]></description>
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