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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 ...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday November 29th
Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
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 ...
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.
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...
Laura's Links
De-Colonizing, De-Civilizing, De-Westernizing
Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...
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...
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...
Mann vs Steyn
Clash of the Sticks
Part Seven of the audio adaptation of Steyn's climatological bestseller...
Mann vs Steyn
Mann of the Hour
Part Six of the audio adaptation of Steyn's climatological bestseller...
Mann vs Steyn
Mann of the Present
Part Five of the audio adaptation of Steyn's bestseller A Disgrace to the Profession...
Mann vs Steyn
Pathological Science
Part Four of the audio adaptation of Steyn's climatological bestseller...
Mann vs Steyn
Mann of the Past
Part Three of the audio adaptation of Steyn's bestseller A Disgrace to the Profession...
Mann vs Steyn
Mann is an Island
Part Two of the audio adaptation of Steyn's climatological bestseller...
Mann vs Steyn
Climate of Fear
Melissa Howes' audio adaptation of Steyn's bestselling book, A Disgrace to the Profession...
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