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Rick's Flicks
Clean Out Your Desk: Jason Reitman's Up in the Air
History might prove me wrong, but I can't shake the idea that we're still living in the world created by the financial crisis that began in 2007 – the one where we learned what a "mortgage-backed security" was and wondered how that was ever a good idea. The recession that followed took down Lehman Brothers, exposed Bernie Madoff's investment fraud, crashed economies in countries as different as Iceland and Greece, sent two of the Big Three U.S. automakers into bankruptcy and launched the phrase "too big to fail" into our lexicon. We still live with its effects today – with a housing crisis that constantly evolves and worsens, with surges in inflation and government debt that has reached numbers virtually imponderable in scope. And even ...
Politics & Current Affairs
I Have Seen the Future and It's Stabbed
Steyn on more examples of how "diversity is our strength"...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Serving It Cold
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 priorities of the forty-seventh president - and breaking news of the Diversity Stabbing of the Day in Germany. Which, as Mark noted, are both really the same story: immigration, and the right to talk honestly about it...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday January 22nd
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...
Politics & Current Affairs
I Never Promised You a Joe Pardon
Steyn picks some highlights from Inauguration Day...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Waltzing Matilda
Mark celebrates Banjo Paterson and a lyric that's all but incomprehensible yet nevertheless captures the spirit of a great nation - with bonus romantic francophone version
Rick's Flicks
Office Space: Jean Negulesco's The Best of Everything
Rick McGinnis on Hope Lange and Suzy Parker in The Best of Everything...
On the Town
How Now, Browned Cow?
Mark suffers from a surfeit of prostitutes, plays highlights from The Jacques Brel Songbook and The Mrs O'Leary Songbook, and offers a glass-half-empty Sinatra Sextet...
Politics & Current Affairs
It's Paedos All the Way Down
The peoples of the west are taking on the psychological condition of battered wives...
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
Today is the seventy-fifth anniversary of George Orwell's death. You might wish to observe the occasion with my serialisation of Nineteen Eighty-Four - which can be heard here. Its combination of state violence and official lies seems more relevant to Keir Starmer's Britain than it should be.
Meanwhile, 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...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Goldfinger
Mark celebrates John Barry, 007's composer and the man who invented "spy music"...
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...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols
A SteynOnline tradition: our annual presentation of ancient scripture and brand new versions of favourite carols, from various members of the Steyn Show musical family...
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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