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Mark Steyn
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Mark Steyn writes SteynOnline, a personal blog at steynonline.com about politics and culture. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Mark Steyn's columns on climate science and Michael Mann's lawsuits, on stalled technological innovation, and on the "realm of manners" in economics. Steyn's essays are cited as sources.
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What Hacker News says?
Is the seventh stage suing one's opponents for libel when they poke fun of one[1]? [1] http://www.steynonline.com/6565/the-lonesomest-mann-in-town
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on “What's Really Warming the World?”Submitted The War That Made the World We Live In as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMark Steyn has also commented brilliantly on the fizzling out of technological innovation: http://www.steynonline.com/6425/holding-pattern Quote: "The first half of the 20th century overhauled the pattern of our lives: The light bulb abolished night; the internal combustion engine tamed distance. They fundamentally reconceived the rhythms of life. That's why our young man propelled from 1890 to 1950 would be flummox…
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on “Why Is Peter Thiel Pessimistic About Technological Innovation?”Submitted Celebrate Conformity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLord Moulton called it "the realm of manners" in between the domains of law and of free choice. Mark Steyn interpreted it recently: http://www.steynonline.com/7468/the-realm-of-manners
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on “The hole at the heart of economics: the consent of the governed”Mann filed a lot of lawsuits over this and has lost all of them: https://www.steynonline.com/11508/youre-once-twice-three-tim... He didn't spend 9 years fighting a very expensive lawsuit and then, when he finally had a chance to prove that his work wasn't fraudulent in front of a judge, decide he was busy with other things lol! He refused to present the relevant evidence because his goal from the start was an ideolo…
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on “Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought”> there are many people who have been Muslims just by birth and they do not necessarily follow the vicious ideology to its core. Yes and we should support all such people instead of parroting the slogans that effectively support the Islam fundamentalists (and they are anyway supported by billions of dollars every year). Parroting the slogans (like this title "the poems of a guy show how Islam is complex," no, Islam…
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on “Complex view of Islam found in poetry of Iran, Stanford researcher shows”