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

Politics & Current Affairs

The Not So Long Goodbye

Programming note: Join Mark later this evening for another episode of his nightly audio adventure - and the first of this year's Christmas capers - Mystery in White by Jefferson Farjeon. It airs right here at SteynOnline at 7pm North American Eastern - which is midnight Greenwich Mean Time. ~Headline from Newsweek: Women Are Getting Sterilized After Donald Trump's Victory: 'Only Option' Really? Apparently so: It's not a procedure you'd expect a 28-year-old to be planning. But for Lydia Echols from Texas, having her fallopian tubes removed is the price she's willing to pay to ensure her reproductive rights. I would doubt that Ms Echols was planning to give her fallopian parts much of a workout over the next four years, but, if I follow ...

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Mark's Week in Review

A Se'nnight of Steyn: November 24-30

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

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Rick's Flicks

Smooth Criminal: Jean Gabin in Pépé le Moko

Rick McGinnis on Jean Gabin and Pepé le Pew​​​​​​​...

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On the Town

Song of a Bird

Steyn celebrates St Andrew's Day - and the centenary of a quartet of Broadway blockbusters...

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Steyn Live!

Come Sail With Us!

The Mark Steyn 2025 Cruise is just around the corner... Book your cabin today!

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Laura's Links

Talking Turkey

Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Trumping Trudeau

If you missed today's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. Thank you for all your excellent questions. Over the course of the hour, guest host Laura Rosen Cohen took questions about the incoming Trump administration, Justin Trudeau, Republicans finally in power instead of "in office", the Middle East, and matters pertaining to Jewish lineage! If you missed the live broadcast, the action replay can be heard in full by clicking above. We thank you for joining us live, or for listening to the replay at your leisure and we wish all of our American friends and readers a Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you for all your kind comments these last grisly few months, and thank you to all the brand new members of The Mark Steyn ...

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Clubland Q&A

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday, November 27th

Laura Rosen Cohen fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members from all around the world around the planet...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Enter Hegseth

If you missed today's edition of Mark's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. Steyn was back at the microphone, fielding questions on Trump's new team ...and the same old-same old over in the Senate...

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Topical Take

Looking for an Argument

Mitch McConnell and the same-old same-old...

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Seasons of Steyn

The Best Blood, the Worst Wars

Thoroughly Modern Milley and the American way of war...

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Topical Take

Where We Were, Where We Are

California manages to count forty-four per cent of Eric Shagdwell's vote...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Monkey Business

The Deep State moves to Plan B...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

The Comeback King

Steyn answers your questions on the most amazing comeback in American political history...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Beyond the Margin of Steal

Steyn covers Election Night live...

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Politics & Current Affairs

A Modification in the Official Lie

Three little girls sacrificed on the altar of "diversity"...

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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

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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Mann vs Steyn

Football and Hockey

The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...

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A Clubman's Notes

Not Spoiling Christmas

Here we go with Part Four of our latest audio diversion, and the first of this year's Christmas capers. Our "Christmas crime story", as the publishers bill it, is Mystery in White - a Jefferson Farjeon thriller from the England of 1937 - before grooming gangs and Albanian sex-traffickers and much else. If you want a preview of those coming attractions, see here or here. Thank you for all your kind comments on the early installments of Mr Farjeon's tale. Fran, a First Weekend Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club, is far from the snow belt, but writes: I'm enjoying this queer wintery tale, especially the detailed snowstorm descriptions, as heavy snow almost never occurs here in the high desert of southern New Mexico. I do remember very ...

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A Clubman's Notes

Pulling Her from the Wreckage

Welcome to the third installment of our brand new Tale for Our Time, the first of this season's Christmas capers, written by Jefferson Farjeon and published in 1937. You can enjoy Mystery in White episode by episode, night by night, twenty minutes before you lower your lamp. Or, alternatively, do feel free to binge-listen: you can find the earlier installments here. As Larry Durham, a South Carolina member of The Mark Steyn Club, puts it: Can't wait to lower the lamp and dive into the latest TFOT. In tonight's episode, having abandoned their snowbound train on Christmas Eve, a not entirely compatible house party adjusts to its new surroundings: With a ridiculous sensation that he was being heroic, Thomson found his way into the kitchen. ...

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A Clubman's Notes

Lost in a Wilderness of White

Welcome to Part Two of Mystery in White by Jefferson Farjeon, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and the first in this season's Christmas capers. Keith Farrell, an English member of The Mark Steyn Club, was so thrilled by the introduction he's not quite ready to advance to the tale itself: Haven't started the actual story yet; the intro is classic Mark and bears listening to again. In tonight's episode of our "Christmas crime story", a quartet of passengers abandon their snowbound train on Christmas Eve - and find themselves plunged into white-out conditions: While crossing a second field the snow began again. Each of the four travellers wondered whether to suggest going back, and each lacked the moral courage to put the ...

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A Clubman's Notes

Snowed In on the 11.37

Programming note: Join Steyn tomorrow, Saturday, for another edition of his Serenade Radio show, On the Town. This week's broadcast celebrates St Andrew's Day, and the centenaries of two landmark Broadway shows. The fun starts at 5pm Greenwich Mean 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-seventh audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and the first of this year's Yuletide capers - Mystery in White, a "Christmas crime story" from 1937 by Jefferson Farjeon, scion of an eminent family, as Mark notes in his introduction, that has given us, among other delights, the definitive Rip van ...

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Seasons of Steyn

Over the River, Through the Years...

Looking back to Thanksgiving 1924, Steyn covers the very first of what has since become an annual tradition - and he reprises a presidential joke from Calvin Coolidge...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Theme from New York, New York

A song of quintessentially American confidence and swagger

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On the Town

Puccini in Avalon

On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town Mark observes the centennial of Puccini's death with his somewhat unlikely biggest hit. Plus there's a Sierra Leone double-play and a very operatic Sinatra Sextet...

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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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On the Town

Burma Broads and Butterflies

On the eve of Remembrance Day/Armistice Day/Veterans Day, this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town plays the music of the Great War...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

It's All in the Game

In a brand new episode, two days ahead of the American "elections", Mark plays songs by mayors, governors, senators and presidential candidates - and tells the story of the only standard in the American songbook written by a man on a winning presidential ticket...

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On the Town

Wallowing in the Mire

A presidential Sinatra Sextet, plus Jack Jones sings Nelson Eddy and Bryan Adams...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Witchcraft

A bewitching song by two of Mark's favourite songwriters...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Lilac Wine

Mike Batt joins Mark for a favourite song of four generations of female vocalists from Eartha Kitt to Miley Cyrus...

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A Clubman's Notes

Nonplussed and Terrified

The concluding episode of The Unparalleled Invasion, written by Jack London in 1910...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Rise of China

Welcome to the sixty-sixth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our seventh venture into the work of Jack London...

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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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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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