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:
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 ...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday November 29th
Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
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...
Politics & Current Affairs
If at First You Don't Succeed, Trial Trial Again...
The Mann vs Steyn trial is back on!
The War on Free Speech
Suits Across the Atlantic
Steyn on his free-speech lawsuits in London and Washington...
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...
Topical Take
Israel Today, The West Tomorrow
A Steyn essay from fourteen years ago proves prescient...
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...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Mark talks to Hugh Martin, composer of a Christmas classic...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Stirring Up and Piping Down
The conclusion of Mark's Christmas Tale for Our Time...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Plum Duff
Steyn's Christmas Tale for Our Time for a bollardized festive season...
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...
Steyn's Sunday Poems
If Ye Break Faith with Us who Die...
Mark reads John McCrae's great poem of the Great War...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Light My Fire
Mark on an iconic progressive rock track turned easy-listening favorite...
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
After the Match
Tales for Our Time returns with a Steyn take on an H G Wells theme...
Steyn's Song of the Week
A Hundred Years of Hank
Lola Aviva and Tal Bachman celebrate the centenary of Hank Williams...
Mann vs Steyn
Mann of the Past
Part Three of the audio adaptation of Steyn's bestseller A Disgrace to the Profession...
Mann vs Steyn
Mann is an Island
Part Two of the audio adaptation of Steyn's climatological bestseller...
Mann vs Steyn
Climate of Fear
Melissa Howes' audio adaptation of Steyn's bestselling book, A Disgrace to the Profession...
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