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November 29, 2023
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Beyond The Mark Steyn Show:
Columns, poems, tales, music, movies and more from Mark and friends

Laura's Links

Morning Comes Quickly

Greetings one and all and welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links. Over the last several months, I've been dealing with a multitude of "real life" issues and challenges, muddling through them all with varying degrees of success and failure. Most of these are too personal to write about at this time. I remain relatively heavily mired down in various layers of the muck of life. Not all days are bad of course and there are many moments of great joy indeed throughout many. But no matter what has happened throughout the day, at the end of the day, as my weary eyes crave sleep, I put my hand over my eyes and say the Shema Yisrael prayer. A sense of inner peace takes over and I can finally rest. Then morning comes quickly. I feel as ...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday November 29th

Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

The Common Good in Uncommon Times

Programming note: Please join me tomorrow, Wednesday, for another Clubland Q&A, when I'll be taking questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet. The fun starts at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm GMT. ~They're saying it out loud now: Ireland's Green Party Sen. Pauline O'Reilly: "We are restricting freedom but we're doing it for the common good...Yes you have rights, but they are restricted for the common good."pic.twitter.com/A1JN1yMyVv — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) November 27, 2023 The obvious objection is that this is the rationale of totalitarian monsters throughout history. But, in our time, it's worse than that - because, when "diversity is our strength", there is no "common good". Because to have a "common ...

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Mark's Week in Review

A Se'nnight of Steyn: November 19 - 25

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

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Rick's Flicks

No Man of Her Own: Gable and Lombard's Only Flip of the Coin

Rick McGinnis on Carole Lombard and Clark Gable on-screen and off...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Diversity Stabbing of the Day

Crépol... Dublin... [Your town here]...

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Seasons of Steyn

SteynOnline Turns Twenty-One!

Pop the bubbly and enjoy Mark's birthday bargains...

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Laura's Links

De-Colonizing, De-Civilizing, De-Westernizing

Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

La Grande Décivilisation

A French news story of unnerving symbolism...

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Politics & Current Affairs

If at First You Don't Succeed, Trial Trial Again...

The Mann vs Steyn trial is back on!

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The War on Free Speech

Suits Across the Atlantic

Steyn on his free-speech lawsuits in London and Washington...

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Politics & Current Affairs

On Being Right Too Soon

Steyn on an abiding sin...

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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...

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Topical Take

Israel Today, The West Tomorrow

A Steyn essay from fourteen years ago proves prescient...

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The War on Free Speech

The Dames of Descending Darkness

We are all "state-controlled media" now...

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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...

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Topical Take

Is There a Non-Far Right?

Steyn on Wilders, then and now...

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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...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Roses of Picardy

Mark's favourite song from the Great War...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

If You Were the Only Girl in the World

A song for Armistice Day...

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Steyn's Sunday Poems

If Ye Break Faith with Us who Die...

Mark reads John McCrae's great poem of the Great War...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Light My Fire

Mark on an iconic progressive rock track turned easy-listening favorite...

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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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A Clubman's Notes

After the Match

Tales for Our Time returns with a Steyn take on an H G Wells theme...

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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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Mann vs Steyn

Clash of the Sticks

Part Seven of the audio adaptation of Steyn's climatological bestseller...

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Mann vs Steyn

Mann of the Hour

Part Six of the audio adaptation of Steyn's climatological bestseller...

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Mann vs Steyn

Mann of the Present

Part Five of the audio adaptation of Steyn's bestseller A Disgrace to the Profession...

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Mann vs Steyn

Pathological Science

Part Four of the audio adaptation of Steyn's climatological bestseller...

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Mann vs Steyn

Mann of the Past

Part Three of the audio adaptation of Steyn's bestseller A Disgrace to the Profession...

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Mann vs Steyn

Mann is an Island

Part Two of the audio adaptation of Steyn's climatological bestseller...

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Mann vs Steyn

Climate of Fear

Melissa Howes' audio adaptation of Steyn's bestselling book, A Disgrace to the Profession...

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Mann vs Steyn

Football and Hockey

The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...

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