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

Politics & Current Affairs

Assad? Sad!

Programming note: Join Mark later this evening for another episode of his nightly audio adventure: Mystery in White, a "Christmas crime story" by Jefferson Farjeon. It airs right here at SteynOnline at 7pm North American Eastern - which is midnight Greenwich Mean Time. ~The "peaceful transfer of power" is a lot quicker in Syria than in America. Some perfunctory looting of the presidential palace, and next thing you know Mr and Mrs Assad and the kids are settling into their far more manageable studio apartment in Moscow. Before his mid-life career switch to murderous dictator, young Bashar was a respected London ophthalmologist. Yet he failed to read the writing on the wall. On the BBC some or other expert was even using the phrase "Arab ...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

The story of an erubescent proboscis and the brothers-in-law who made it part of the American holiday season....

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Topical Take

Fire and Faith

The sorry state of French Christendom

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Mark's Week in Review

A Se'nnight of Steyn: December 1-7

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

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Rick's Flicks

Tora! Tora! Tora! and Pearl Harbor, Eighty-Three Years Later

The Japanese surprise attack on the US Navy at Pearl Harbor was a surprise not just because the Imperial Japanese Navy had planned and executed it almost flawlessly, but because almost no one thought it possible and those who did were ignored. Hindsight is, of course, perfect vision...

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On the Town

Regrets, I Haven't Had a Few

On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town Mark remembers a French composer, while Sinatra sings with a Brazilian composer. Plus music from Nova Scotia, and lyricist Gary Osborne recalls a song worth thirty quid...

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Topical Take

The Men Who Walked Away

The thirty-fifth anniversary of the "Montreal Massacre"

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Laura's Links

A Pardon From the Big Guy

Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

A Murder in Midtown

If you missed today's edition of Mark's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. Click above to listen...

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Clubland Q&A

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday, December 4th

Steyn fields questions from listeners around the planet...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Goodnight, Vienna

On Sunday President-elect Trump chose to threaten the ever swelling ranks of BRICS nations:

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Politics & Current Affairs

The Not So Long Goodbye

The future is now, so who's shown up?

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Try a Little Tenderness

Mark traces the history of a blockbuster song from Ray Noble and Ruth Etting to Otis Redding and Three Dog Night...

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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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Seasons of Steyn

The Best Blood, the Worst Wars

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

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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

Loud Man in Silent Tussle

Just ahead of Part Eleven of our nightly audio adventure, a reminder of Steyn's still newish weekend music show on Serenade Radio, every Saturday at 5pm GMT/12 noon North American Eastern. This week's episode features a cavalcade of Christmas songs from the Continent and the Commonwealth, plus a Sinatra Sextet of Hollywood rarities. In tonight's episode of Mystery in White, Mr Maltby explains to certain of the party what's going on: "Exhibit A," began the old man, touching the hammer. "I found it on my way here, near this house. It was partially, but not completely, covered by the snow. Does that suggest anything to either of you?" "It suggests something to me," answered David. "What?" "That it must have been left there or dropped quite ...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Full Quid

Welcome to the latest in our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time. This month's yarn was published eighty-seven years ago, and is revived as the first of this season's Christmas capers: Mystery in White, by Jefferson Farjeon. Episode Ten.

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A Clubman's Notes

No Laughing Matter

Our latest Tale for Our Time charges on: Mystery in White, Jefferson Farjeon's "Christmas crime story" of 1937. Episode Nine.

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A Clubman's Notes

A Very Poor Father Christmas

In episode eight of Mystery in White, Lydia is determined to jolly a snowbound and not terribly compatible house party into an appropriately festive Christmas...

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A Clubman's Notes

A Man in Your Room

It's time for Part Seven of our latest Tale for Our Time: Mystery in White is Jefferson Farjeon's "Christmas crime story" of 1937, and the first of this season's Yuletide capers at SteynOnline.

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A Clubman's Notes

Questions and Answers

Welcome to Part Six of our nightly audio entertainment - Murder in White, Jefferson Farjeon's "Christmas crime story" and the first of this season's Yuletide capers.

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A Clubman's Notes

Feeling for Friends

Welcome to Part Five of the first of this season's Christmas capers: Mystery in White by Jefferson Farjeon, about the adventures of half-a-dozen railway passengers abandoning a snowbound train on Christmas Eve...

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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.

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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:

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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.

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A Clubman's Notes

Snowed In on the 11.37

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 Winkle, a ditty about the Royal Family, and a global pop hit. Part One.

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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

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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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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