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

Mark's Week in Review

A Se'nnight of Steyn: November 26-December 2

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

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Rick's Flicks

Great Men Deserve Great Pictures: Ridley Scott's Napoleon

Even as the bad reviews poured in, I knew I was still going to see Ridley Scott's Napoleon – and in the theatres, no less – if only for a chance to see a new movie where there was little chance of backstory, character and major plot points being instigated by someone staring at the screen of their phone. And make no mistake, the reviews have been brutal. "So, is Napoleon dynamite?" asked Anthony Lane in the New Yorker. "Not if you're a historian." "An incoherent epic," writes David Fear in Rolling Stone, "one whose shortcomings aren't trying to make up for stature or status but arise from an uncertainty of perspective." "'Middling' and 'epic' are not words you want to see together, but there you are," writes Michael Phillips of the Chicago ...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Diversity Rape of the Day

Getting used to gang-rape...

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Laura's Links

Morning Comes Quickly

Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...

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Clubland Q&A

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

Steyn on our atomised society, the demographic death spiral, and who are the real haters...

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Politics & Current Affairs

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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Politics & Current Affairs

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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Steyn's Song of the Week

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Mark talks to Hugh Martin, composer of a Christmas classic...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Stirring Up and Piping Down

The conclusion of Mark's Christmas Tale for Our Time...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Plum Duff

Steyn's Christmas Tale for Our Time for a bollardized festive season...

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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

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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