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Laura's Links
Honouring Thy Parents
Hello one and all and welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links. Truth be told, we are still digging out from two rather massive snowstorms that dumped a good 60 cm of snow on us here in southern Ontario. We have been shovelling and shovelling and there's just nowhere to put the freaking snow anymore. It's bad enough to be snowed in, but if there's one thing that makes a snowstorm and its aftermath worse, it is the abject stupidity of the decision-makers in local government. Here in Toronto, the kook communists at City Hall have prioritized clearing the bike lanes of snow before the roads and streetcar tracks. Toronto in February! Frigging bike lanes. And please don't get me started on the maddening cycle of city ploughs trapping our ...
The War on Free Speech
Too Stupid Even for CBS News?
Programming note: Tonight, Tuesday, I'll be here with another episode of our current Tale for Our Time. Tomorrow, Wednesday, we'll have our regular Clubland Q&A with questions from Steyn Club members live around the planet at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm Greenwich Mean Time/9pm Central European. Hope you can swing by. ~It's not the most burning topic of the hour, but, as my days dwindle down to a precious few, I confess I have always marvelled at how one can make a multi-decade career on American telly despite having no obvious talent or skill - or ratings. Take CBS News, which is still out there apparently: Dan Rather, the parody "hard news" anchor, was unable to read prompter in anything approximating the cadences of human ...
Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: February 9-15
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick's Flicks
Try That in a Small Town: The Last Picture Show
Rick McGinnis on Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show...
On the Town
Fundamental Things
On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town we go Dutch and go Kenyan - plus Linda Ronstadt, the Ames Brothers and Paul Whiteman with a cavalcade of Number Ones, and Sinatra sings the great iconic love songs of the last century...
Seasons of Steyn
Happy Valensteyn's Day!
If music be the food of love, play on, quoth the poet. It's the season of love, and we're playing on with live music, poetry and the food of love...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
A Judges' Republic
This week's Clubland Q&A focused mainly on the judicial coup presently underway in the United States, with Mark expanding on his 2020 observation to Tucker Carlson: "A judges' republic is a contradiction in terms..."
Politics & Current Affairs
Sacrificing Your Children on the Altar of Diversity
The latest victims of the political class in France...
Politics & Current Affairs
The Racket in Plain Sight
The real divide in America is not between urban and rural, red states and blue, middle-class and lower, but between those in on the racket and those excluded from it...
Steyn's Song of the Week
The Folks who Live on the Hill
Mark is joined by James Hammerstein, son of Oscar Hammerstein and godson of Jerome Kern, to tell the story of one of the team's greatest songs...
Rick's Flicks
Love and Death: Gene Tierney in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Rick McGinnis on Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison in The Ghost and Mrs Muir...
On the Town
Nighties and Counterpanes
On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town we play a song for the season, a song for Mata Hari, and songs for the protean concept album. Plus mambo meets calypso, and Marianne Faithfull - forsooth..!
Politics & Current Affairs
America Alone ...Again
A Nigerian naysayer on Trump and Steyn's bestseller...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Gaz-a-Lago!
Steyn answers your questions on Trump 47's continuing energy and the contrast with Europe. Mark also addressed the accumulating disclosures about the DC grifters on the take from USAid...
Politics & Current Affairs
One-Man Stan
Why is NeverTrumper Bill Kristol being funded by the "US Agency for International Development"?
Politics & Current Affairs
Of Coronas and Korans
Steyn surveys the scene from avocados to apostasy...
Steyn's Song of the Week
East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)
Mark tells the story of a one-hit writer whose song from a Princeton University revue went around the world and into orbit...
On the Town
Déjà Bongoed
Mark remembers Elaine Stritch - plus big hits from a small country and a Sinatra cavalcade of Rodgers & Hart...
Politics & Current Affairs
When the Planes Fall from the Skies...
An accident that should never have happened...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Energy in the Executive
If you missed today's edition of Steyn's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. This week's show focused mainly on the tremendous energy of the new administration...
Politics & Current Affairs
Aiding and Abetting
Steyn on Johnson, Starmer, "vaccines" and "grooming"...
Seasons of Steyn
Jews You Can Use
In Europe formal observances of the Holocaust grow ever more fulsome in direct proportion to the rise in anti-Semitism...
Politics & Current Affairs
I Have Seen the Future and It's Stabbed
Steyn on more examples of how "diversity is our strength"...
Politics & Current Affairs
I Never Promised You a Joe Pardon
Steyn picks some highlights from Inauguration Day...
The Mark Steyn Show
A Palsied Limb of Nature's Frame
After President Trump's suggestion that the United States should buy Greenland, Mark reads the greatest of all poems on the subject...
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
Climactic Changes
In tonight's penultimate episode of Lord of the World, the volor fleets of the world's powers prepare to embark for the final showdown...
A Clubman's Notes
Given Up to a Magistrate
Part Thirty-Four of Robert Hugh Benson's far-sighted novel of 1907: Lord of the World...
A Clubman's Notes
"Turn This Handle as Far as It Will Go..."
Part Thirty-Three of Robert Hugh Benson's ambitious preview of the twenty-first century, Lord of the World...
A Clubman's Notes
The Magistrate Approves the Application
Part Thirty-Two of a far-sighted novel by Robert Hugh Benson - Lord of the World...
A Clubman's Notes
Quiet and Merciful
Part Thirty-One of our latest audio entertainment: Lord of the World a far-sighted novel of 1907 by Robert Hugh Benson anticipating much of the psychology of the twenty-first century...
A Clubman's Notes
A Possible Necessity
Welcome to Episode Thirty of our nightly audio adventure - a most prescient novel from 1907 by Robert Hugh Benson, Lord of the World...
A Clubman's Notes
A Slip of Useless Country
Welcome to Part Twenty-Nine of our current Tale for Our Time, our winter meditation by Robert Hugh Benson, with more than a touch of remarkable prescience...
A Clubman's Notes
Ruin and Retreat
Welcome to Part Twenty-Eight of our current audio adventure: a far-sighted novel of 1907 by Robert Hugh Benson, Lord of the World...
A Clubman's Notes
Knife-Blades of Fiery Light
Episode Twenty-Seven of our current Tale for Our Time - Robert Hugh Benson's highly prescient novel Lord of the World...
A Clubman's Notes
His Domination Is Complete...
Welcome to Part Twenty-Six of the latest audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time: Robert Hugh Benson's Lord of the World...
A Clubman's Notes
The Morning After
Part Twenty-Five of our winter audio adventure Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson...
A Clubman's Notes
Fear and Fury on the Streets
Part Twenty-Four of our current Tale for Our Time - Robert Hugh Benson's predictive novel of 1907, Lord of the World...
A Clubman's Notes
Hooting and Flapping Overhead
In Part Twenty-Three of Lord of the World, a nocturnal volor flight over the Alps takes a dramatic turn...
A Clubman's Notes
Remember, remember the First of January...
Part Twenty-Two of Robert Hugh Benson's 1907 tale of a future of world peace brought about by a charismatic saviour...
A Clubman's Notes
Cast Down into the Sewer
In Episode Twenty-One of Lord of the World, the remnants of western Christianity are feeling the pressure...
A Clubman's Notes
The Deepest Instinct in Man
Welcome to Part Twenty of Lord of the World, Robert Hugh Benson's far-sighted novel of 1907 and the the latest entry to our series Tales for Our Time...
A Clubman's Notes
Legislating the New Gods
Welcome to Episode Nineteen of our latest Tale for Our Time...
A Clubman's Notes
A Tidal Wave of Apostasy
In tonight's episode, following the mysterious American senator's assumption of the presidency of Europe, the Pope summons his cardinals to announce his response...
A Clubman's Notes
"A Position Hitherto Undreamed of in Democracy"
Episode Seventeen of a far-sighted novel of 1907 by Robert Hugh Benson speculating on the world of the early twenty-first century...
A Clubman's Notes
The Last Kingdom
Episode Sixteen of a far-sighted caper by Robert Hugh Benson, Lord of the World: a novel published in 1907 and speculating about the state of the world a century hence - ie, right about now...
A Clubman's Notes
A White Figure in the Green Gloom
In Episode Fifteen of Lord of the World, Robert Hugh Benson's far-sighted novel of 1907, Percy is summoned by the very pontiff...
A Clubman's Notes
Ill-Smelling Streets with Cabbage-Strewn Gutters
Robert Hugh Benson's Lord of the World is a view of the early twenty-first century from the vantage of 1907, but it is remarkably prescient...
A Clubman's Notes
Night-Birds Above Interlaken
The thirteenth episode of our current Tale for Our Time: Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson...
A Clubman's Notes
Fundamental Transformation
Episode Twelve of Lord of the World, with its rising young American senator of whom little is known...
A Clubman's Notes
When Man Learns His Own Divinity...
IIn tonight's episode of Lord of the World, the newspapers proclaim the dawn of a new era of world peace ...because man now knows he is his own god...
A Clubman's Notes
An Astonishing Sight
In tonight's installment, Percy finds himself back at Victoria Station in a wholly transformed capital...
A Clubman's Notes
Universal Brotherhood Breaks Out!
Our latest Tale for Our Time charges on: Lord of the World, Robert Hugh Benson's speculative fiction of 1907 about how our world might be a century hence - ie, right now...
A Clubman's Notes
The Greatest Thing in History
In Episode Eight of Lord of the World, on the eve of the expected war with the Eastern Empire, there is a sudden outbreak of world peace...
A Clubman's Notes
A Religious Ring
Part Seven of our latest Tale for Our Time: Lord of the World is Robert Hugh Benson's futuristic fiction of 1907, speculating on where we'll be in a century's time - which is more or less right now...
A Clubman's Notes
A Man of Whom Nothing Is Known
Welcome to Part Six of our nightly audio entertainment - Lord of the World, Robert Hugh Benson's vision of the early twenty-first century as seen from 1907...
A Clubman's Notes
A Reign of Unheard-of Terror
Welcome to Part Five of our brand new Tale for Our Time: Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson, set in the early twenty-first century as seen from 1907...
A Clubman's Notes
"The Euthanasia People"
Part Four of our latest audio diversion, and our first foray into the oeuvre of Robert Hugh Benson. Lord of the World is a work of speculative fiction from 1907 about the western world in the early twenty-first century - and Mr Benson got an awful lot of things right...
A Clubman's Notes
A Windowless Train to Brighton
Welcome to the third installment of our brand new Tale for Our Time, a most far-sighted novel, written by Robert Hugh Benson and published in 1907...
A Clubman's Notes
An American in Irkutsk
Welcome to Part Two of Lord of the World, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and our first venture into the work of Robert Hugh Benson, a favourite of at least two popes...
A Clubman's Notes
Getting Here from There
Welcome to the sixty-eighth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our first foray into the work of Robert Hugh Benson. Lord of the World is a far-sighted novel of 1907 looking ahead to the world of the early twenty-first century. Which is to say, right now...
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