Live Around the Planet: Tuesday April 3rd

by Mark Steyn
Clubland Q&A
April 3, 2018

Thanks for all your questions. If you missed the live broadcast, you can hear the action replay here.

UPPERDATE! We're live now, so let's have at it!

UPDATE! We'll be going live in about ten minutes, so do get ready to fire off your questions via the comment form below. See you at the top of the hour. And, to listen, simply click the livestream feed.

I know Easter Monday is a big holiday in many parts of Europe and the Commonwealth, so, if you're just heading back to work, we had a busy weekend at SteynOnline, starting with our Good Friday movie pick and wrapping up with me and Tucker Carlson on the remorseless progress of the Honduran caravan and the obliteration of William McKinley. In between came a video edition of Mark's Mailbox, an audio special on the only Easter standard in the American songbook, a musical celebration of the centenary of the Royal Air Force, and some thoughts on a London crime landmark, cultural disinheritance and FBI bungling. If you were busy with Easter or Passover observances these last few days, we hope you'll check out one or two or even all of the above.

We had a lot of correspondence about RAF-associated music. You can find out much more about Fred Godfrey, author of "Bless 'Em All", at a website run by his grandson.

Today, Tuesday, we'll be attempting another Clubland Q&A session, live around the world at 4pm Eastern in North America. We'll try to pin down the rest of the time zones below, but do, as they say, check local listings. I'd like to explore some of the above topics in more details - the feeble passivity in face of obvious provocations like the Honduran "refugee" scam, the advance of historical vandalism from the Confederacy to actual American presidents, the pitiful state of free speech in an England no longer worthy of those Battle of Britain pilots, and the descent into a know-nothing culture that has broken the compact between past, present and future - which is essential to any truly civilized society.

All that should keep us going for an hour or so, but, if you do have any questions on our classic fiction serializations or music specials, maybe we'll address a few artier topics in the final fifteen minutes or so. We have a new audio adventure starting this Friday, and it's a corker. But if you have any suggestions for future tales do let me know.

Whether or not you're a member of The Mark Steyn Club, you can listen to the Clubland Q&A live as it happens wherever you happen to be on this turbulent earth: Club membership is required only to ask a question. If you've been toying with signing up, either for a full year or a see-how-it-goes experimental quarter, there's still time to do so and shoot me a head-scratcher for today's show - as I invited new member Dave Lowery to do: Dave was so tickled by the reaction to my Tucker Carlson appearance last night that he signed up for the Club just this morning.

As soon as we go live, members are welcome to log-in and submit their queries via our comment form below - and I'll answer them as-it-happens on the audio livestream that should magically appear above (or possibly below - I forget which). And, if you disagree with my response, feel free to object to it in the comments, and I'll try to address a couple of the objections as we go along.

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So see you back here live this afternoon at 4pm Eastern in North America. That's 5pm in the Maritimes, 5.30pm in Newfoundland - and, beyond the Americas, 9pm in the British Isles, 10pm in Western Europe, 11pm in the Middle East, midnight in the Kremlin, 1.30am in Delhi for all you Newfoundlanders who move to India for the half-hour time-zones, an early Wednesday breakfast in Oz, and a slightly more convivial 9am in New Zealand.

But, whatever time it is where you are, we do hope you'll be able to join us. To listen to the livestream, simply click the "play" icon on the audio player (in certain browsers, the audio will start auto-playing). And to pose a question simply use the comment form below. See you in a few hours.

On April 3, 2018 at 4:01 pm, Lawrence Brennan wrote:

Have you any thoughts on the recent passing of Peter Munk?

On April 3, 2018 at 4:08 pm, Emily Maxymiv wrote:

Hi Mark,
I always have a chuckle when I read the comments on some of your posts. "What do you know, you're just an immigrant" or "go back to wherever you came from". These comments are of course from the pro-illegal immigration and amnesty bunch. It seems futile to point out their hypocrisy because most contentions of the left seem rooted in double standards whether it's concerning immigration, diversity, or free speech. I wonder if they have reached the point of no return. Even if a liberal were to agree that a caravan of Hondurans ready to invade the country were actually a bad thing, they know they can't disagree without being vilified by their own side. Do you think many of the left are too proud to admit they could be wrong so they just fight that much harder to the point of being nonsensical?

On April 3, 2018 at 4:13 pm, Ken wrote:

It appears that we'll have an army of self-described border-jumpers arriving at our border with Mexico in the coming days. I think of the recent paid civilian shields ushered to Israel's border by Hamas recently, and am intrigued by the similarities. If Mexico doesn't stop this threatened invasion, we'll have to.

Right now I'd be quietly bringing the families of US diplomatic and other personnel back to the US, and preparing to deny Mexico access to US airspace. What would you do, Mark?

On April 3, 2018 at 4:17 pm, Jim Anthony wrote:

Please comment on Trump's plan to use the US military to stop the "immigrant" invasion.

On April 3, 2018 at 4:22 pm, George Pereira wrote:

Here in the Berkshires we have a statue of President McKinley, combat veteran and a sergeant in the Union Army that put an end to slavery in America. (Why is that fact always overlooked?) The statue was put up because he traveled through the area a few times and somebody wanted to commemorate that. It's a pleasant statue, hand up raised in welcome and some of the events of his presidency decorating the base but it's a somewhat bland statue of a man who had his fill of killing during his service in the Civil War.
Reluctant to take action prior to the Spanish American War he was nonetheless pushed into action. He tried to make the best of it as he saw his duty before him.

One of the amusing stories of the American occupation of the Philippines was that as sick white soldiers were being taken out black soldiers were being brought it under the assumption black soldiers could handle the environment.
A white sergeant asked the incoming black troops if they were taking their place. A black sergeant replied , yes they'd come to take up the white man's burden.

On April 3, 2018 at 4:25 pm, Joe Patterson wrote:

Today a Dutch attorney became the first victim of the Mueller investigation. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail for basically doing no less than what Hillary and her gang did. Your thoughts.

On April 3, 2018 at 4:28 pm, Mike wrote:

Mark,
How about we just leave the people on our currency as they are, and tell the Democrats that they can put their new heroes' picture on the IRS tax forms? That's more appropriate anyway.

On April 3, 2018 at 4:32 pm, Robert Stewart wrote:

Mark, Islam holds a stronger claim to longevity in the support of slavery than does the Democratic Party.

On April 3, 2018 at 4:41 pm, Nicola Timmerman wrote:

What do you think of Canada planning to take in Africans that Israel is deporting?

On April 3, 2018 at 4:42 pm, Tom Grothe wrote:

Any updates on the Michael Mann sweepstakes?

On April 3, 2018 at 4:46 pm, Sandy from Canada wrote:

Hello Mark:

What is your take on Russian Meddling in all aspects of Western Civilization since approximately the 1930's?

Current Communist Goals(1958) from the Naked Communist by Cleon Skouson an FBI Agent concerning the takeover of all major American Institution.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1272893/posts

Pierre Elliot Trudeau and Lester B Peirson being closet communists that took over the Liberal Party of Canada and opened the floodgates to immigration from third world countries to overwhelm the stable Canadian Culture.

My father witnessed the takeover of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation, by the communists in the mid 70's, changing it from a professional association to a union.

I learned on Sunday night that Ronald Reagan fought vs the communist takeover of the Screen Actors Guild when he was it's president.

Barach Obama and Hillary Clinton as followers of Saul Alinsky and Obama being raised in a communist enclave in Hawaii.

How do we reset the Russian Narrative to focus on what their infiltration of all our major institutions so everyone can look at our culture through that lens?

Thank you

On April 3, 2018 at 4:50 pm, Fran Lavery wrote:

Any possibility of including a Thanksgiving or Christmas short story by Truman Capote at year's end, or another of your choosing by Capote? If that doesn't grab you, what about "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"? The Tales for our Time is one of my favorite features of the MS Club.

On April 3, 2018 at 4:57 pm, Tom Degnan wrote:

Mark,
What did your musical education consist of? It's awesome and your depth of knowledge continues to impress.

On April 3, 2018 at 4:58 pm, Nicholas Siekierski wrote:

Mark, Poland has thus far avoided the destructiveness of multiculturalism and political correctness plaguing the West (to the chagrin of the European Commission). What advice would you give to the Poles and the Polish Government to avoid falling into the same trap that has consumed Western Europe and America? Greetings from Warsaw, we hope you visit Poland sometime.

On April 3, 2018 at 5:04 pm, Joseph Dornisch wrote:

So, is there going to be a volume 2 of "A Disgrace to the Profession"?

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