49 Facts About Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn is a Canadian author and a radio, television, and on-line presenter.

Mark Steyn has written several books, including The New York Times bestsellers America Alone, After America, and Broadway Babies Say Goodnight.

In 2021, Steyn began hosting his own show on British news channel GB News.

Mark Steyn left GB News in early February 2023, saying that the channel wanted him to pay fines issued by the UK media regulator Ofcom, which was investigating complaints of COVID-19 vaccination scepticism aired on The Mark Steyn Show.

Mark Steyn has since moved his show to his own website.

Mark Steyn was baptized a Catholic and was later confirmed in the Anglican Church, which he left to become a Baptist.

Mark Steyn has stated that "the last Jewish female in my line was one of my paternal great-grandmothers" and that "both my grandmothers were Catholic".

Mark Steyn was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, the same school that author JRR.

Tolkien attended and where Mark Steyn was assigned a Greek dictionary that had been used by Tolkien.

Mark Steyn worked as a disc jockey before becoming musical theatre critic at the newly established The Independent in 1986.

Mark Steyn acted as TV critic for Channel 4's breakfast show The Channel 4 Daily and was appointed film critic for The Spectator in 1992.

Mark Steyn has written for many publications, including The Washington Post, The Jerusalem Post, Orange County Register, Chicago Sun-Times, National Review, The New York Sun, The Australian, Maclean's, The Irish Times, National Post, The Atlantic, Western Standard, and The New Criterion.

Mark Steyn subsequently stepped back from writing and now devotes most of his time to his show.

Mark Steyn's books include Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now, a history of the musical theatre, and the political America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, a New York Times bestseller which predicts the downfall of the West.

Mark Steyn has published collections of his columns and celebrity obituaries, as well as profiles from The Atlantic.

From December 2016 to February 2017, Steyn hosted The Mark Steyn Show on the CRTV Digital Network.

Mark Steyn sued to keep the show on the air during arbitration, saying it was on behalf of his employees.

Former employees provided sworn declarations that Mark Steyn was "incredibly disorganised", tyrannical, and impossible to work with.

Mark Steyn was awarded damages for breach of contract, which was confirmed on appeal, as well as attorneys' fees.

In October 2021, Mark Steyn began covering for Nigel Farage on his prime time show Farage on GB News on Fridays and was a relief presenter for Farage on other days.

In March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Mark Steyn presented the show from Western Ukraine.

In December 2022, Steyn suffered a heart attack while broadcasting the Mark Steyn Show on GB News TV.

Mark Steyn did not recognise the symptoms as a heart attack, but later suffered a second, while in France, where he was hospitalised.

Mark Steyn complained changes in his contract would force him and his staff to attend regulatory compliance training sessions, which he referred to as "re-education classes".

On 6 March 2023, Mark Steyn was found by Ofcom to have breached its rules during a GB News programme about COVID-19 vaccines.

Mark Steyn says he was fed every day, and as such to turn around and use that kind of language I think is just insensitive.

Mark Steyn wrote articles and maintained a blog for Maclean's covering the 2007 business fraud trial of his friend and financial patron Conrad Black in Chicago, from the point of view of one who was adamantly convinced Black never committed any crime.

Mark Steyn opposes unfettered Muslim immigration to the United States, which he describes as dangerous.

Mark Steyn believes that if mass Muslim migration to Europe is not stopped, Europe will turn into what he calls "Eurabia", a future society where the European continent will be dominated by Islam.

When some critics claimed that Mark Steyn was advocating genocide in this passage, he wrote:.

Mark Steyn has written about Muslim demographic projections to back up Bat Ye'or's Eurabia theory and has been on the board of advisors of the International Free Press Society, both key components of the international counter-jihad movement.

Mark Steyn was an early proponent of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In one of his first books, The Story of Miss Saigon co-written with Edward Behr, Mark Steyn offered up his stance on the Miss Saigon controversy of 1990.

Mark Steyn accused the Asian-American activists opposed to the musical Miss Saigon of a "new tribalism" that threatened to bring in "a new era of conformity and sanctimoniousness".

Mark Steyn's work America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It is a New York Times bestselling nonfiction book published in 2006.

The paperback edition, released in April 2008 with a new introduction, was labeled "Soon to Be Banned in Canada", alluding to a possible result that Mark Steyn then anticipated from the Canadian Islamic Congress' human rights complaints against Maclean's magazine.

In 2011, Mark Steyn published After America: Get Ready for Armageddon, a follow-up to America Alone.

In 2007, a complaint was filed with the Ontario Human Rights Commission related to Mark Steyn's article, entitled "The Future Belongs to Islam", published in Maclean's magazine.

Mark Steyn later wrote a lengthy reflection of his turmoil with the commissions and the tribunals.

An appeal to have the lawsuit thrown out, filed by Mark Steyn's co-defendants, was heard in the DC Court of Appeals on November 25,2014.

Mark Steyn was present for oral arguments but did not join the appeal, preferring to go to trial.

On December 22,2016, the DC appeals court ruled that Mann's case against Simberg and Mark Steyn could go ahead.

On February 8,2024, after a jury trial in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, each of the co-defendants Simberg and Mark Steyn was ordered to pay Mann $1 in compensatory damages.

Mark Steyn, who had self-represented, said through his manager he would be appealing the punitive damages, as did Simberg, through his lawyer.

Law commentator Eugene Volokh wrote that the court did not disagree with the jury verdict that Mark Steyn had libeled Mann through reckless and knowingly false statements.

Mark Steyn's writing has drawn supporters and detractors for both content and style.

In 2005, Mark Steyn received the Henry Salvatori Prize in the American Founding at the Claremont Institute established by philanthropist and conservative leader Henry Salvatori.

Mark Steyn was awarded the 2006 Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism for writing which "best reflects love of this country and its democratic institutions".

Mark Steyn received the inaugural George Jonas Freedom Award at a gala hosted by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms in Toronto in 2018.