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Laura's Links
Goodness, Light, and Candles
Hello again and welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links, coming to you straight from southern Ontario within the ever Deranged Dominion, and just in time for the first candle of Chanukah tonight. As you may or may not know, this holiday is about light triumphing over darkness and about faith, and about Jewish values triumphing over godlessness, among other things. Each night of Chanukah another candle is added, increasing the light and increasing the goodness. I previously mentioned a Rabbi who said that the Jewish response to October 7 is not "why", but "what" – what can I do as an individual, what can we do as a community, as a people, to defeat the darkness and bring more goodness and light into the world? Chanukah is a chance ...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday December 6th
Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
Rick's Flicks
Great Men Deserve Great Pictures: Ridley Scott's Napoleon
Rick McGinnis on the forthcoming Oscar-winner for least animated shortie...
Politics & Current Affairs
The Common Good in Uncommon Times
Steyn on our atomised society, the demographic death spiral, and who are the real haters...
Politics & Current Affairs
If at First You Don't Succeed, Trial Trial Again...
The Mann vs Steyn trial is back on!
The War on Free Speech
Suits Across the Atlantic
Steyn on his free-speech lawsuits in London and Washington...
Mann vs Steyn
For Want of a Judge...
Just when you think the District of Columbia Superior Court can't get any worse, it does...
Topical Take
Israel Today, The West Tomorrow
A Steyn essay from fourteen years ago proves prescient...
The War on Free Speech
Ofcommed into Oblivion
Steyn's two lawsuits against the UK state censor, and how GB News has been undone by its cowardice...
A Clubman's Notes
A Mock Turtle on the Stuart River
Mark reads Jack London's tale of A Klondike Christmas...
Seasons of Steyn
The Perfect "Perfect Christmas" Book
The return of our old friend Persimmon Coxcomb
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Turkey Stuffed, Sleeves Puffed
For the second of this year's Yuletide Tales for Our Time, a Christmas visit to Green Gables...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Mark talks to Hugh Martin, composer of a Christmas classic...
A Clubman's Notes
Stirring Up and Piping Down
The conclusion of Mark's Christmas Tale for Our Time...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Plum Duff
Steyn's Christmas Tale for Our Time for a bollardized festive season...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Camelot
On the centenary of the birth of John F Kennedy, Mark tells the story of how a Broadway musical became a key part of the President's posthumous mythology...
Steyn's Sunday Poems
If Ye Break Faith with Us who Die...
Mark reads John McCrae's great poem of the Great War...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Light My Fire
Mark on an iconic progressive rock track turned easy-listening favorite...
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...
A Clubman's Notes
After the Match
Tales for Our Time returns with a Steyn take on an H G Wells theme...
Steyn's Song of the Week
A Hundred Years of Hank
Lola Aviva and Tal Bachman celebrate the centenary of Hank Williams...
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