Miss Saigon
In one of his first books, "The Story of Miss Saigon" (1991) co-written with Edward Behr, Steyn offered up his stance on the Miss Saigon controversy of 1990. 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".