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Columns, poems, tales, music, movies and more from Mark and friends
Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: July 12-18
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick's Flicks
Blow-Up: Take a Picture, It'll Last Longer
Like all those musicians who say they formed bands because they bought the first Velvet Underground record, there were at least two generations of photographers who chose their profession because they saw Blow-Up, Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 so-called "murder mystery" starring David Hemmings as Thomas, an arrogant and successful photographer in what was about to be called "Swinging London". Deputized to stand in for all those photographers is the American Robert Whitman, who recalled in a 2018 interview that "in those days people were very conservative; you couldn't look like this and get a job. I never wanted to wear a coat and tie, and I never wanted to work from nine to five. I didn't know what I was doing. I was just wandering ...
The Bachman Beat
The Pazzi Conspiracy
Guest columnist Tal Bachman continues his series on the art of translation...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Fuzzy Bunnies
If you missed today's edition of our Clubland Q&A Live Around the Planet, guest hosted by Laura Rosen Cohen, here's the action replay...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday July 15th
Guest host Laura Rosen Cohen fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members...
Topical Take
They Want You Dead (cont)
Happy Bastille Day to our many French readers. If you are attending the parade in the Champs-Elyséés, don't forget to wear your QR code - Liberté, égalité, cybersecurité! A pioneering example of the extension of "online safety" to real life. In hopes of deferring my next trip to Comaland, I am trying hard to comply with my doctors' instructions to eschew the Internet and commune with the birds and flowers. But some news insists on breaking through. I learn from my pal Dan Wootton, for example, that, of three Mark Steyn Show guests, one has been brutally murdered, another subjected to (so far) less fatal political violence, and a third forced to flee the United Kingdom. As I have been writing for many sod-bollocking years: All that can be ...
Politics & Current Affairs
LaLaLand
There is no such thing as spontaneous moral fervour in the political class...
The Mark Steyn Show
A Murder on Dartmoor
We were sorry to hear of the death yesterday of Ann Widdecombe, former Conservative minister, former Strictly Come Dancing contestant, former Brexit MEP, and latterly Reform UK's immigration spokesperson. Today came the shocking news that Ann was murdered...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
That's Demography!
In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
Politics & Current Affairs
Let Me Show You to Your Room
Distance lends a smidgeonette of enhanced perspective...
Politics & Current Affairs
The Crossroads of Europe
Greetings from Ukraine. I'm in the Kharkiv oblast, which the huge numbers of Russian speakers all around prefer to call the Kharkov oblast. But, whichever your preferred vowel, this oblast is oh, such a blast. Last night, the actual Russians (from Russia, that is) tried to take a town about fifteen kilometres away from where I am...
Politics & Current Affairs
Pick Your Poison: Droned? Or Raped and Stabbed?
Random killing in Ukraine vs random killing in the west...
A Clubman's Notes
The End of the World, Twenty Years On
Part One of Mark's audio adaptation of his demographic blockbuster...
Politics & Current Affairs
It's Still the Demography, Stupid
Twenty years ago this month - January 2006 - The Wall Street Journal and The New Criterion published the first draft of what would become the thesis of my bestselling book, America Alone...
Politics & Current Affairs
Dispatches from My Coma
As readers may recall, in recent years, after announcing a rare bit of activity from yours truly, I have generally observed that I am engaging in such against the advice of my doctors. So it was that I spent over a month in Ukraine, venturing hither and yon and trying to stay one step ahead of the bombs and drones. I was there to research a personal project, but did not manage to complete my work, and was planning to return in late summer. I understand that, in a world where Victoria Nuland and Lindsey Graham lob darts at the map blindfold in order to select the next hapless country to implode, it can be hard for Americans to retain interest in this or that passing quagmire, but I find it helpful to see these places for myself and felt ...
On the Town
An Evening for Some Terpsichore
Welcome to another brand new post-coma edition of Mark Steyn on the Town. On today's show, Mark plays the palace and tries the St Tropez twist. Plus: songs for swingin' superheroes and a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones...
Steyn's Song of the Week
The Merry Widow Waltz
Mark celebrates one of the most beautiful melodies ever written, and tries to overlook the words...
On the Town
An Empty Table for the Second-Floor Bird
Welcome to another brand new post-coma edition of Mark Steyn on the Town. On today's show, Mark plays a range of eminent songwriting teams from Rodgers & Hart to, er, Dicks & Rudge. In between we have a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones and a celebration of a peerless pianist - and Steyn concludes with a brief remembrance of the late Bonnie Tyler...
A Clubman's Notes
The Benighted Traveler
Welcome to the conclusion of our eightieth Tale for Our Time: My Kinsman, Major Molineux, an allegory of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Hawthorne...
A Clubman's Notes
A Handsome Country Youth and a Dainty Mistress
In this penultimate episode, young Robin thinks he has finally found his eminent cousin...
A Clubman's Notes
The Natives Are Restless
Welcome to the eightieth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time: a special selection for America's semiquincentennial...
Steyn's Song of the Week
I'll Never Fall in Love Again
Mark celebrates a Bacharach & David classic...
On the Town
Openings and Closings
Welcome to a post-coma edition of Mark Steyn on the Town. On today's brand new show, Mark plays a diverse range of musical artistes from Johnny Mercer to Cliff Richard, Al Jolson to the Smiths. In between we take a look at Frank Sinatra from the point of view of his longtime opening act, the late Tom Dreesen (see picture above), and we wish a happy hundredth birthday to hit songwriter Phil Springer...
On the Town
Kings and Vagabonds (and Boutonnieres)
Steyn marks the official birthdays of both the King and The Lion King - and celebrates Father's Day...
On the Town
The Canine Sinatra
Welcome to this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town. On today's show, we start with Eurovisions past and end with the canine Sinatra...
On the Town
The Last Farewell
Welcome to this week's edition, coming to you live-ish from the delightful and historic city of Odessa...
A Clubman's Notes
Hands Off
Welcome to the seventy-ninth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time. Sax Rohmer was at one point one of the biggest-selling authors in the world - and then the arbiters of our culture decided to eighty-six his most famous creation...
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...
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