In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...
John Ford made westerns. He made sure this was known, not least of all in his opening words to a famous 1950 meeting of the Screen Directors Guild where Ford faced down Cecil B. DeMille, who wanted to oust Joseph Mankiewicz as head of the Guild and enforce stricter creative censorship across the industry. DeMille did this under the shadow of the "Red Scare" and the looming threat of television, while theatrically noting the number of foreign names at the meeting (he pronounced one famous director's name as "Villiam Vyler"). Ford's reputation was so unimpeachable creatively and politically that he was able to thwart DeMille, and this meeting is considered one of the first body blows against the Hays Code, which would die a death of a ...
Programming note: As part of the seventh-birthday celebrations of The Mark Steyn Club, please join me for a brand new weekly music show. It airs every Saturday on Serenade Radio at 5pm UK time/12 midday North American Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere on the planet by clicking the button at top right here. ~I'm feeling a bit wobbly as another week ends, but through a haze of medication herewith a few thoughts on the passing scene... First, a terrible headline from The Daily Telegraph: Families of people who died after Covid vaccination abandon attempt to sue AstraZeneca Lawyers believe pharmaceutical firm could be covered for people who received jab after April 7 2021 because leaflet noted rare side effect So your perfectly ...
Greetings, shalom one and all and welcome to the POST PASSOVER edition of Laura's Links. I thought kvetching about the cleaning and Passover prep would get the kvetching out of my system but no, I still would like to complain a little bit about being tired. I'M TIRED. We turned over the kitchen on Tuesday night after the holiday ended (from Passover dishes, etc., back to regular), mercifully rid ourselves of the remaining bits of matzah, and gloriously had bagels with all of the appropriate accessories (lox, cream cheese, sliced red onion and capers) for breakfast Wednesday morning. I told Mr. C that I feel like I am on a domestic hamster wheel. And BECAUSE HE IS A GUY, he said a) did I just think of that line right now because it came up ...
Mark fields questions on many topics, from the Islamisation of the western left to the precipitous decline in screen acting. All that plus a few thoughts on the impending seventh birthday of The Mark Steyn Club...
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
Programming note: Tomorrow, Wednesday, Mark will be back behind the microphone for our midweek Clubland Q&A taking questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet. That's at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm British Summer Time/9pm Central European. ~The Modified Limited Hangout continues: AstraZeneca admits for first time its Covid vaccine CAN cause rare side effect in tense legal fight with victims of 'defective' jab "Defective"? Well, at least they didn't put "victims" in scare-quotes. Oh, wait, they did for this supplementary story: The AstraZeneca vaccine 'victims': From families losing loved ones to those left with life-changing injuries, the lives ruined by pharmaceutical giant's Covid jab as it admits for ...
Simple arithmetic: Why upscale white liberal youth are becoming culturally Islamic...
Mark and chums with a musical special live on stage at Hillsdale College...
Steyn's Court Report on cases from Donald Trump to Harvey Weinstein via Tommy Robinson...
Mark fields questions on many topics, from the woeful state of American education to the woeful state of the British police via the woeful state of the "Official Jews". All that plus a great conductor with some music for St George's Day and Anzac Day...
Mark celebrates the centenary of Henry Mancini...
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...
Monday marks the seventh birthday of The Mark Steyn Club, and we're delighted by all the First Day Founding Members who've decided to re-up for our eighth year. We have a few modest observances this weekend, including the launch of a brand new audio show. Thank you for all your kind comments on this anniversary. Nancy and her late husband Mick were with us on our inaugural afternoon back in 2017, and Nancy, a Colorado member, is still enjoying the Club: Keep up the good fight on all fronts, Mark and Co!! I love your stories, poetry and just about everything else. Your content SHINES. Thank you, Nancy. Paul in Ohio agrees: Delighted to renew, please carry on, you'll be invaluable to those of us crawling out of this rubble. And we will. The ...
Programming note: As part of the Mark Steyn Club seventh birthday observances, I'll be launching a new weekly show on Serenade Radio this Saturday at 5pm UK time/12 noon North American Eastern. You can listen from anywhere in the world by clicking the button at top right here. ~Ahead of that, welcome to Part Fifteen of Agatha Christie's tale of sinister coup-plotters on the loose in London after the Great War: The Secret Adversary. Josh Passell, a First Weekend Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club from Massachusetts, writes: When mere binging wouldn't do, it took the mother of all benders to catch up. And to have my questions (tantalus?) answered before they were asked! Fourteen episodes down, without a hangover. It is the mother of all ...
Episode Fourteen of of The Secret Adversary, Agatha Christie's tale of globalist coup-plotters on the streets of London...
The thirteenth episode of our current Tale for Our Time: The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie...
Episode Twelve of Mark's serialisation of The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie...
Part Eleven of Agatha Christie's second novel, The Secret Adversary...
Part Ten of a very timely tale: Mark's serialisation of The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie...
Part Nine of The Secret Adversary, Agatha Christie's first Tommy & Tuppence caper, set against the turbulent politics of the world after the Great War...
Episode Eight of our current Tale for Our Time: The Secret Adversary...
Part Seven of Steyn's latest Tale for Our Time: The Secret Adversary, with Agatha Christie venturing from country-house murders at St Mary Mead into the high stakes of post-Great War politics...
Part Six of our nightly audio entertainment - The Secret Adversary, an early Agatha Christie caper of Tommy & Tuppence attempting to scuttle coup-fomenting Bolshevists on the mean streets of London...
Part Five of a rather English adventure: an Agatha Christie caper set amidst Bolshevist plots on the streets of London - The Secret Adversary...
Part Four of our latest audio diversion: The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie's 1922 caper set in a London seething with Bolshevists and labour unrest...
Welcome to Episode Three of Agatha Christie's tale of Bolshevist revolution looming on the streets of London...
Welcome to Part Two of The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and set amidst Bolshevik intrigue on the streets of London...
Welcome to the sixty-second audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our second venture into the work of the world's bestselling author, Agatha Christie...