Hello again and welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links, coming to you straight from southern Ontario within the ever Deranged Dominion, and just in time for the first candle of Chanukah tonight. As you may or may not know, this holiday is about light triumphing over darkness and about faith, and about Jewish values triumphing over godlessness, among other things. Each night of Chanukah another candle is added, increasing the light and increasing the goodness. I previously mentioned a Rabbi who said that the Jewish response to October 7 is not "why", but "what" – what can I do as an individual, what can we do as a community, as a people, to defeat the darkness and bring more goodness and light into the world? Chanukah is a chance ...
Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
Rick McGinnis on the forthcoming Oscar-winner for least animated shortie...
Steyn on our atomised society, the demographic death spiral, and who are the real haters...
The Mann vs Steyn trial is back on!
Steyn on his free-speech lawsuits in London and Washington...
Just when you think the District of Columbia Superior Court can't get any worse, it does...
A Steyn essay from fourteen years ago proves prescient...
Steyn's two lawsuits against the UK state censor, and how GB News has been undone by its cowardice...
Mark reads Jack London's tale of A Klondike Christmas...
The return of our old friend Persimmon Coxcomb
For the second of this year's Yuletide Tales for Our Time, a Christmas visit to Green Gables...
Mark talks to Hugh Martin, composer of a Christmas classic...
The conclusion of Mark's Christmas Tale for Our Time...
Steyn's Christmas Tale for Our Time for a bollardized festive season...
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...
Mark reads John McCrae's great poem of the Great War...
Mark on an iconic progressive rock track turned easy-listening favorite...
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...
Tales for Our Time returns with a Steyn take on an H G Wells theme...
Lola Aviva and Tal Bachman celebrate the centenary of Hank Williams...