Mark Steyn
October 5, 2024
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Beyond The Mark Steyn Show:
Columns, poems, tales, music, movies and more from Mark and friends

Mark's Week in Review

A Se'nnight of Steyn: September 29-October 5

In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...

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Rick's Flicks

What She Saw: Kate Winslet as Lee Miller

Lee Miller – model, muse, photographer, war correspondent – was hardly unknown, so the makers of Lee, a newly released biopic about her, had an opportunity to sketch in the vast amount of empty space around this thumbnail of Miller, her life and her work. They had the full cooperation of her son and biographer and keeper of her legacy, Antony Penrose, and the star power of Kate Winslet, who produced the film and plays Miller. This gives the picture, directed by cinematographer Ellen Kuras, a provenance and authority that few biopics can match. Even if you didn't know anything about Lee Miller it's hard not to root for the film – the sort of (relatively) small budget, serious, literary and historical picture that once filled multiplexes and ...

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Topical Take

Droning Clichés in a Burning Theatre

Programming note: Please join me later today, Friday, for a brand new audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time. ~If you haven't yet heard our 2020 Tale The Marching Morons, do give it a listen because the morons are stepping up the pace. Thus, Tim Walz, friend of school shooters and grade-school bicyclist of Tiananmen Square, has unilaterally repealed the First Amendment: VANCE: Kamala Harris wants to use the power of government and big tech to silence people from speaking their minds. That is a threat to democracy that will long outlive this present political moment. I would like Democrats and Republicans to both reject censorship. Let's persuade one another. Let's argue about ideas, and then let's come together afterwards. WALZ: ...

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Laura's Links

Winning as a Strategy

Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Through Tiananmen by Bicycle

Steyn takes your questions on the debate and much more...

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Clubland Q&A

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday October 2nd

Steyn fields questions on the veep debate and other topics from listeners around the planet...

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Politics & Current Affairs

The "Far Right" Inches Nearer

A curious evolution in European "democracy"...

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Politics & Current Affairs

"Underwater" in North Carolina ...and Michigan

How many American states have to be underwater before it makes the news?

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Unforgettable

Mark on an unforgettable song from an unshutuppable writer...

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On the Town

Danke schön, Caterina

Mark remembers the multi-talented Caterina Valente, and passes on one of the greatest anecdotes he has ever been told...

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The Mark Steyn Show

The Politicization of American Justice

A rare stage appearance by Steyn, as he returns to America's diseased and depraved capital city for address a Hillsdale College audience on Post-Constitution Day...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Democracy Dies In ...Secret Service Headquarters

In America's one-party state the Leader of the Opposition is now the prisoner of his "security detail"...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Identity and Evasion

The inability to speak the truth about nationhood...

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Politics & Current Affairs

The Mounting Toll

Steyn on the continuing insult and injury to the vaccine victims...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Incuriouser and Incuriouser

Yawn. Didn't we do this story last month?

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Politics & Current Affairs

They Want Him Dead

Happenstance, coincidence, and enemy action...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Vesti la giubba/Mattinata

From Leoncavallo to Frank Sinatra Jr: An operatic aria that inspired a whole sub-genre of pop songs...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Drifting to Armageddon

The gradual escalation of a one-sided proxy war...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Avalon with Carol Welsman and Russell Malone

Mark remembers a dear friend of the Steyn Show musical family, the guitarist Russell Malone...

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The Mark Steyn Show

RFK Jr Endorses Trump

On the day a Kennedy breaks with his party, Mark's full-length interview with RFK Jr...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Asleep in the Deep (State)

The US Department of Justice has the last laugh...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Celebrate Diversity ...Unto Death

Revisiting Arnold Toynbee and civilisational suicide...

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Politics & Current Affairs

The Fires of August

Steyn on child slaughter in England, and its fiery aftermath...

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Politics & Current Affairs

As Steyn Goes, So Goes the Deep State?

Is the CIA getting its plot twists from The Prisoner of Windsor?

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Ave atque vale

Farewell to a Friend

Mark remembers his beloved and inspirational cat Marvin...

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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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Mann vs Steyn

Football and Hockey

The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...

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A Clubman's Notes

Nonplussed and Terrified

Welcome back to our latest Tale for Our Time. Listeners seemed to enjoy Part One of our story, so herewith the concluding episode. The Unparalleled Invasion was written by Jack London in 1910, and, although off on some of the specifics, was remarkably prescient on the big picture. Tonight, following the awakening of China and its advance around the world, the western powers decide to - oh, go on, take a wild guess - that's right, call a conference: China was appealed to and threatened by the United Powers, and that was all the Convention of Philadelphia came to; and the Convention and the Powers were laughed at by China. Li Tang Fwung, the power behind the Dragon Throne, deigned to reply. "What does China care for the comity of nations?" ...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Rise of China

Programming note: Join Steyn tomorrow, Saturday, for a another edition of his Serenade Radio show, On the Town. This week's broadcast features Number One records, French and Nigerian songwriters, dictaphones, and a bigtime rocker's favourite cover version. The fun starts at 5pm British Summer Time - which is 6pm in Western Europe/12 midday North American Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere on the planet by clicking the button at top right here. ~Welcome to the sixty-sixth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our seventh venture into the work of Jack London, author of our popular serialisation Burning Daylight and of one of the world's greatest short stories, To Build a Fire. The Unparalleled Invasion is another ...

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A Clubman's Notes

Never Before Seen on the Soil of England

The concluding episode of Mark's serialisation of G K Chesterton's The Flying Inn...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Stink of Polygamy

In the penultimate episode of The Flying Inn, the Islamic character of Ivywood House is becoming more pronounced...

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A Clubman's Notes

England on the March!

Part Twenty-Five of our summer audio adventure The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton...

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A Clubman's Notes

One for the Rolling English Road

Part Twenty-Three of The Flying Inn, which includes G K Chesterton's best-known poem...

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A Clubman's Notes

Framing the Narrative

Part Twenty-Two of G K Chesterton's tale of an England in which the elites make common cause with Islam...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Effeteness of Death

In Part Twenty-One of The Flying Inn, we meet the genius behind the not-so-model village of Peaceways...

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A Clubman's Notes

Ringing Bells and an Excellent Liqueur

Episode Nineteen of G K Chesterton's novel of 1914: The Flying Inn...

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A Clubman's Notes

A Trip Up to London

Part Eighteen of G K Chesterton's The Flying Inn, set in an England where the elites make common cause with Islam to stick it to the masses...

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A Clubman's Notes

Chauffeur on the Lam

Episode Sixteen of our late summer caper by G K Chesterton, The Flying Inn - a novel published in 1914 in which the elites make common cause with Islam and go to war against the English village pub...

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A Clubman's Notes

Pub with no Cheer

Episode Fourteen of Steyn's latest audio adventure, The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton...

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A Clubman's Notes

Hanging About the Grounds

Episode Thirteen of The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton...

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A Clubman's Notes

Fungi and Games

Episode Twelve of The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton: Islam meets militant vegetarianism...

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A Clubman's Notes

Philanthropy as Religious Persecution

Part Eleven of our nightly audio adventure, The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton...

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A Clubman's Notes

Progressive Potentates and Yellow Dogs

Episode Ten of The Flying Inn, in which G K Chesterton contemplates an England in which the elites make common cause with Islam...

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A Clubman's Notes

Gorlumme, Allah!

Episode Eight of The Flying Inn, written in 1914 but extraordinarily prescient in its vision of an alliance between the elites and Islam...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Promise of the Orb

Part Seven of our latest Tale for Our Time: The Flying Inn, G K Chesterton's 1914 novel set in an England where the elites have made common cause with Islam...

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A Clubman's Notes

Go Where You're Expected

Part Six of The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton, set in an England in which the elites have made common cause with Islam...

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A Clubman's Notes

A Great Many Things...

Part Five of a unique and prescient adventure set in an England where the elites have made common cause with Islam: The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton...

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A Clubman's Notes

Last Shout at the Old Ship

Part Four of The Flying Inn - G K Chesterton's 1914 caper set in an England in which the elites make common cause with Islam. Imagine that!

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A Clubman's Notes

With Fez and Frock Coat

The third installment of our brand new Tale for Our Time, written by G K Chesterton in 1914 and contemplating an England in which the elites make common cause with Islam...

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A Clubman's Notes

"The Prophet of Mecca is Reaping His Harvest..."

Part Two of The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton, set in an England in which the elites decide to make common cause with Islam. Imagine that!

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A Clubman's Notes

Islam on the Beach

Welcome to the sixty-fifth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our second venture into G K Chesterton...

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