Okay, let's wrap this up. First, my two cents about Homeric literary journeys: If we're going to read Homer, we ought to read him right. Get the full Homer experience. That first means reading an excellent translation. It also means learning the backstory before diving in. It might mean taking things a bit slower than usual, and consulting the odd commentary or podcast. That's a bit more intellectual effort, but then, the rewards will be far greater. What rewards, exactly? The rewards of broadening and deepening one's soul. Of living, feeling, seeing, time-traveling to, vicariously moving within, a much different culture, in a much different time, bound by much different senses of justice, honor, duty, right, than our own. Of - as Homer ...

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Greetings one and all and happy Thursday! It is time once again for a fresh batch of Laura's Links. Obviously, right off the top, on behalf of all of us at Steyn HQ, we would like to thank you all for your continued prayers and best wishes for Mark as he recovers from an incredibly serious medical episode. Obviously, you are now caught up with what happened. We know you appreciate both the update from Mark himself and also seeing his return to producing the irreplaceable and magical content we have all come to know and love. Mark's gradual return to writing and working started with a new episode of Serenade Radio last week and as he gets stronger, we will of course see more of him here. We appreciate every message of support you have sent, ...

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Our literal in-house ROCK STAR, Tal Bachman, hosted Live Around the Planet today. The show began with what the U.S. (and President) should be doing to solve our broken immigration system (instead of relying on the Courts) and then moved onto Iran, Dominion Day (!), The Odyssey, and so much more. If you missed it, the Action Replay is now available, so listen now. And remember, if you aren't a member yet of The Mark Steyn Club, you can join here. And if you are, remember, giving is the best way to show you care, so get a friend a Gift Membership today! ...

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Guest host Tal Bachman fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members...

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For decades, anyone who cared to know knew what was happening, and everyone in power knew who was enabling its unimpeded continuation, and everyone with a functioning brain knew why it was happening...

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The collaboration between director Michael Powell and writer/producer Emeric Pressburger began on the eve of World War Two and built up a considerable head of steam making films for and about that war...

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We mark ten years since the big vote...

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Another one bites the dust...

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An issue near and dear to Mark's heart...

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Vindication at last...

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In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...

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Steyn reads the concluding episode of his highly prescient bestseller America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It...

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Steyn has a somewhat disturbed night...

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Distance lends a smidgeonette of enhanced perspective...

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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...

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Random killing in Ukraine vs random killing in the west...

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Doctor Fraudpants flops out again...

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Part One of Mark's audio adaptation of his demographic blockbuster...

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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...

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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 ...

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Mark celebrates a Bacharach & David classic...

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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...

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"I miss my dad more and more as the years go by. This Song for the Season is one he used to like singing..."

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This special audio edition of The Mark Steyn Show presents a few Father's Day moments from across the various iterations of the show...

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Steyn marks the official birthdays of both the King and The Lion King - and celebrates Father's Day...

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In honor of Flag Day, enjoy Mark's history of the Stars & Stripes and "You're A Grand Old Flag"...

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On this week's On the Town Steyn plays a cavalcade of big names - Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff - plus a bloke you've never heard of but whose tunes you certainly will know...

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Mark with an hour of music - and memories of a rather odd double-date in Delaware...

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A special D-Day edition of Mark's Serenade Radio show, turning the clock back to the sounds and sentiments of the era...

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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...

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There's really only one song with which we could celebrate The Mark Steyn Club's ninth anniversary...

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Welcome to this week's edition, coming to you live-ish from the delightful and historic city of Odessa...

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Mark in conversation with Artie Shaw and Julio Iglesias on a Cole Porter classic...

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With so many ongoing Russian blasts across the oblasts, we enjoy a few extra Ukrainian blasts across the oblasts, with a brief detour into the good old days of the Polovtsian empire...

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A great Ukrainian song...

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Welcome to this week's edition. I'm weekending in Kiev, and so I thought we'd enjoy a bevy of blasts from oblasts...

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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...

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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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