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Politics & Current Affairs
Of Coronas and Korans
Programming note: Join me tonight for the latest episode of our brand new Tale for Our Time - Robert Hugh Benson's Lord of the World, a piece of speculative fiction from 1907 on the world of the early twenty-first century. ~Mark Carney is a former Governor of the Bank of England, a former Governor of the Bank of Canada and the principal architect of the anti-Brexit panic-porn "Project Fear". It is somewhat surprising to me that he can still find gainful employment anywhere on earth. However, he is Klaus ("Vee penetrate zuh cabinets") Schwab's handpicked choice for next Prime Minister of Canada, so I am making an effort to take him seriously. On Saturday, the United States imposed twenty-five per cent tariffs on imports from Canada. So ...
Steyn's Song of the Week
East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)
If you enjoy Steyn's Song of the Week at SteynOnline and on Serenade Radio, please note that there will be a live stage edition during the 2025 Mark Steyn Cruise - along with many other favourite features from SteynOnline and The Mark Steyn Show. More details here. ~If you missed Mark's Song of the Week earlier today on Serenade Radio, here's a chance to catch up via this SteynOnline premiere. Mark tells the story of a one-hit writer whose song from a Princeton University revue went around the world and into orbit. The show includes performances by Diana Krall, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, and the Street Singer. Click above to listen. ~This airing of Steyn's Serenade Song of the Week is a presentation of The Mark Steyn Club. Thank you for ...
Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: January 26-February 1
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...
Rick's Flicks
One of Those Things: Doris Day and Frank Sinatra in Young at Heart
Rick McGinnis on a film from the start of Sinatra's second act...
On the Town
Déjà Bongoed
Mark remembers Elaine Stritch - plus big hits from a small country and a Sinatra cavalcade of Rodgers & Hart...
Politics & Current Affairs
When the Planes Fall from the Skies...
An accident that should never have happened...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Energy in the Executive
If you missed today's edition of Steyn's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. This week's show focused mainly on the tremendous energy of the new administration...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday January 29th
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...
Politics & Current Affairs
Aiding and Abetting
Steyn on Johnson, Starmer, "vaccines" and "grooming"...
Seasons of Steyn
Jews You Can Use
In Europe formal observances of the Holocaust grow ever more fulsome in direct proportion to the rise in anti-Semitism...
Politics & Current Affairs
I Have Seen the Future and It's Stabbed
Steyn on more examples of how "diversity is our strength"...
Politics & Current Affairs
I Never Promised You a Joe Pardon
Steyn picks some highlights from Inauguration Day...
The Mark Steyn Show
A Palsied Limb of Nature's Frame
After President Trump's suggestion that the United States should buy Greenland, Mark reads the greatest of all poems on the subject...
Tales for Our Time
The Prisoner of Windsor
A remote fantastical kingdom far from Europe's chancelleries of power... An unpopular monarch on the eve of his coronation... A ruling class of plotters and would-be usurpers... ...and a gentleman adventurer on holiday. No, not Ruritania in the nineteenth century, but the United Kingdom in the twenty-first...
A Clubman's Notes
A Tidal Wave of Apostasy
In tonight's episode, following the mysterious American senator's assumption of the presidency of Europe, the Pope summons his cardinals to announce his response...
A Clubman's Notes
"A Position Hitherto Undreamed of in Democracy"
Episode Seventeen of a far-sighted novel of 1907 by Robert Hugh Benson speculating on the world of the early twenty-first century...
A Clubman's Notes
The Last Kingdom
Episode Sixteen of a far-sighted caper by Robert Hugh Benson, Lord of the World: a novel published in 1907 and speculating about the state of the world a century hence - ie, right about now...
A Clubman's Notes
A White Figure in the Green Gloom
In Episode Fifteen of Lord of the World, Robert Hugh Benson's far-sighted novel of 1907, Percy is summoned by the very pontiff...
A Clubman's Notes
Ill-Smelling Streets with Cabbage-Strewn Gutters
Robert Hugh Benson's Lord of the World is a view of the early twenty-first century from the vantage of 1907, but it is remarkably prescient...
A Clubman's Notes
Night-Birds Above Interlaken
The thirteenth episode of our current Tale for Our Time: Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson...
A Clubman's Notes
Fundamental Transformation
Episode Twelve of Lord of the World, with its rising young American senator of whom little is known...
A Clubman's Notes
When Man Learns His Own Divinity...
IIn tonight's episode of Lord of the World, the newspapers proclaim the dawn of a new era of world peace ...because man now knows he is his own god...
A Clubman's Notes
An Astonishing Sight
In tonight's installment, Percy finds himself back at Victoria Station in a wholly transformed capital...
A Clubman's Notes
Universal Brotherhood Breaks Out!
Our latest Tale for Our Time charges on: Lord of the World, Robert Hugh Benson's speculative fiction of 1907 about how our world might be a century hence - ie, right now...
A Clubman's Notes
The Greatest Thing in History
In Episode Eight of Lord of the World, on the eve of the expected war with the Eastern Empire, there is a sudden outbreak of world peace...
A Clubman's Notes
A Religious Ring
Part Seven of our latest Tale for Our Time: Lord of the World is Robert Hugh Benson's futuristic fiction of 1907, speculating on where we'll be in a century's time - which is more or less right now...
A Clubman's Notes
A Man of Whom Nothing Is Known
Welcome to Part Six of our nightly audio entertainment - Lord of the World, Robert Hugh Benson's vision of the early twenty-first century as seen from 1907...
A Clubman's Notes
A Reign of Unheard-of Terror
Welcome to Part Five of our brand new Tale for Our Time: Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson, set in the early twenty-first century as seen from 1907...
A Clubman's Notes
"The Euthanasia People"
Part Four of our latest audio diversion, and our first foray into the oeuvre of Robert Hugh Benson. Lord of the World is a work of speculative fiction from 1907 about the western world in the early twenty-first century - and Mr Benson got an awful lot of things right...
A Clubman's Notes
A Windowless Train to Brighton
Welcome to the third installment of our brand new Tale for Our Time, a most far-sighted novel, written by Robert Hugh Benson and published in 1907...
A Clubman's Notes
An American in Irkutsk
Welcome to Part Two of Lord of the World, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and our first venture into the work of Robert Hugh Benson, a favourite of at least two popes...
A Clubman's Notes
Getting Here from There
Welcome to the sixty-eighth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our first foray into the work of Robert Hugh Benson. Lord of the World is a far-sighted novel of 1907 looking ahead to the world of the early twenty-first century. Which is to say, right now...
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