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Mark Steyn

The State of the State of the Union

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Well, it's that time of year again - the State of the Union! Here are my traditional thoughts on the occasion - after which we'll deal with the particular circumstances of tonight's festivities: Strange how the monarchical urge persists even in a republic two-and-a-third centuries old. Many commentators have pointed out that the modern State of the Union is in fairly obvious mimicry of the Speech from the Throne that precedes a new legislative session in British Commonwealth countries and continental monarchies, but this is to miss the key difference. When the Queen or her viceroy reads a Throne Speech in Westminster, Ottawa, or Canberra, it's usually the work of a government with a Parliamentary majority: In other words, the stuff she's ...

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Steyn on Fox

The Long Goodbye

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Happy State of the Union Day to all our American readers, listeners and viewers. Steyn marks the anniversary of a very memorable SOTU here.

Then as now Hillary Clinton was all over the news defending serial predators. On Monday evening Mark joined Tucker Carlson to discuss Hillary's comic timing. Click below to watch:

If you prefer Mark in non-visual form, tomorrow...

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Topical Take

Desperately Seeking Completion

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Steyn revisits a memorable State of the Union address from twenty years ago, when Bill Clinton made his first post-Monica address to the nation...

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Politics & Current Affairs

The Grammy Hall of Lame

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Steyn riffles through a potpourri of headlines, from the FISA memo to sharia courtesy of Australian taxpayers

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Steyn on Fox

The Jet Set

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The globalists fly in to Davos to tell the rest of us how to live:

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Seasons of Steyn

Happy Australia Day!

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Mark celebrates Australia's national holiday (even if St Kilda doesn't)

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Politics & Current Affairs

Hump Day

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Snapshots of a changing world, from Araby to England

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Clubland Q&A

"So What You're Saying Is..."

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Steyn Club members around the planet quiz Mark on a wide range of topics, many of which nevertheless fall under a single pressing question: Can't We Talk About This..?

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The War on Free Speech

The Vertigo at the Top of the Stick

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In a couple of months, Michael E Mann's defamation suit against me will enter its sixth year in the constipated bowels of DC justice...

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Mann vs Steyn

Football and Hockey

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The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

My Blue Heaven

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This department is generally in the business of songs rather than records - songs that endure over the decades and turn up in a thousand re-arrangements on zillions of records. It's different in our age, when new songs are generally conceived as a full production, a recording, which when finished and available for download is the only extant record (so to speak) of said song. When did it change? Well, that was a gradual process - when sheet-music sales were overtaken by gramophone sales, when live music on radio was superseded by disc-jockeys jockeying discs. But an early marker of the transition was the inauguration of electrical recording in the 1920s...

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Mark at the Movies

Lurid Grooviness

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Peter Wyngarde was a bona fide star only for a few years. But his animal sideburns, extravagant moustache, and jaunty cravats nestling in thickets of chest hair cast long and hirsute shadows: He was the inspiration for Austin Powers...

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On the Town

Music from Melbourne

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An hour of Mark and musical guests from Down Under

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A Clubman's Notes

Of Coats and Ghosts

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As the concluding episode of Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat approaches its memorable climax, Akakiy Akakievitch is not taking well the loss of his coat...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Center of Attention

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Welcome to Part Three of my serialization of The Overcoat

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A Clubman's Notes

Frugal Tiptoeing

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Welcome to Part Two of The Mark Steyn Club's latest Tale for Our Time - Gogol's The Overcoat

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A Clubman's Notes

"We All Come Out of Gogol's Overcoat"

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Welcome to the eleventh in our series Tales for Our Time, and the second half of our double-bill of frosty fiction from opposite ends of the northern hemisphere

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On the Town

Twelfth Night Live!

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with Mark and his guests Larry Adler, Tal Bachman, Cheryl Bentyne, Dorothée Berryman, Robert Davi, Everything But The Girl, Monique Fauteux, Patsy Gallant, Jessica Martin, Liza Minnelli with Kander & Ebb, Maria Muldaur, Paul Simon and Loudon Wainwright III

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