Mark Steyn ping. Notice he is number 5 on the list above. If you click on his name, you get in part:
“5. Mark Steyn
So just how magical is pretty writing? Even if people don’t like something about what you’re saying you can seduce them into reading anyway.
Confession: of the 10 columnists on this list Steyn is probably the one I’ve resisted the most over the years and read the least. Why? It’s nothing against him personally, I’m just already overdosed on his style of Gen-X-leaning Boomer doom and gloom.
I hear enough worries and arguments about approaching armageddon coming from colleagues that do I really need to spend 436 pages of After America to hear about how we’re all gonna die? (As much as I’m happy to borrow many of the musical and cultural stylings of the generation younger than my parents and a decade or two older than me, I draw the line at indulging in their apocalypticism.)
That was my thinking on him for a number of years but I’m over it now that I’ve spent more time reading Steyn’s work closely and seeing that it’s not just Chicken Little-ism. So all of Steyn’s books go onto the 2014 to-read agenda, finally.”
Cleick here:
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/12/26/the-10-best-conservative-columnists-of-2013/6/
or above for the rest. Steyn is way under rated on this list in my view, but different people have different views.
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Mark Steyn and Dan Greenfield should be at #1 and #2.
I have decreed..:-)
Steyn does cast a lot of doom-and-gloom, but no one does it with more wit and no one else makes me laugh while reading it. He should be Number 1 on any such list....