Weimar, He's Making Eyes at You
Programming note: If you missed today's audio episode of Steyn's Song of the Week on Serenade Radio, you can hear the re-run at either 5.30am Monday UK time (Monday afternoon in Oz) or 9pm Thursday UK time (Thursday afternoon in the Americas). Wherever you are on the planet, simply click the button at top right here. In Mark's July edition of The Hundred Years Ago Show, peace breaks out in Ireland; the Government of the United States takes an unexpected interest in Afghanistan; China's nascent Communist Party has its first meeting relegated to a pleasure boat on a tourist lake; and the turbulent politics of post-imperial Germany seem to be working well for a charismatic public speaker. Plus: The short lives of Interior Ministers; a ... |
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Steyn's Song of the WeekThe Sheik of Araby
Programming note: Steyn's Song of the Week can now be heard weekly on Serenade Radio, every Sunday at 5.30pm British Summer Time. If you missed today's show, you can hear the repeat at 5.30am Monday UK time - that's 9.30pm Pacific Sunday evening on the West Coast of North America, or Monday lunchtime in Australia. Alternatively, there's a second repeat at 9pm London time Thursday, which is 4pm Eastern. ~This song is exactly a century old, and it's percolated through recent episodes of our Hundred Years Ago Show and Mark Steyn Show. So I figure it's time to stop tap-dancing around the edges, and address the matter directly: April 29th apparently marks the anniversary of the launch of the Islamic conquest of the Iberian peninsula in the year ... Mark's Week in ReviewA Se'nnight of Steyn, July 19-25
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark Rick's FlicksFeeling Too Much: Douglas Sirk, Magnificent Obsession and All That Heaven Allows
Rick McGinnis on the master of the Hollywood melodrama, Douglas Sirk, with a particular look at Magnificent Obsession and All That Heaven Allows... Ave atque valeSwinging On
Welcome to Part Twenty-Two of our weekly serialization of a favorite book among Steyn readers, Mark Steyn's Passing Parade. In today's episode, we memorialize the Swedes' swingingest swinger, and his legendary South Carolina counterpart... Steyn on FoxPainting by Six-Figure Numbers
On Friday Steyn guest-hosted America's Number One cable show, Tucker Carlson Tonight. He'll be back in the anchor chair on Monday, and we hope you'll want to join him. Friday's show began with Mark's monologue on the ever more brazen corruption underpinning the sudden boom in Hunter Biden's "art"... The Bachman BeatTal Bachman: We Have Met the Enemy, part XIII
For his column this week Tal Bachman writes on New Zealand psychologist John Money, whose leap from the middle of nowhere to the halls of American academia would unleash nightmarish consequences on millions of people... The Mark Steyn ShowThe Last Dam Buster
Today's show is a Covid-double-mutation hybrid of the Steyn Show and our Clubland Q&A in which Mark answers questions live around the planet on a multitude of topics, from Fauci's "gain of function" to Kurt Vonnegut's prescience, punctuated by various regular features such as Last Call and The Hundred Years Ago Show,,, Clubland Q&ALive Around the Planet ...with a Few Extras
Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world Laura's LinksThe Geopolitics of Ice Cream
Laura Rosen Cohen on getting cancelled for selling ice cream in Israel, the inhumanity of Chinese concentration camps, and Rashida Tlaib's Jew hatred... Steyn on FoxHarrying High
Mark and Tucker on the "pregnant man" emoji - and Prince Harry Ave atque valeSpiritual Ammunition
Mark recalls the late cartoonist Kurt Westergaard - a brave man when few were Steyn's Song of the WeekOver the Rainbow
Mark celebrates one of the most beloved of movie songs, yet one that has become freighted by the premature death of its most celebrated singers, one after the other... The Mark Steyn Weekend ShowThe Sweet Season of Dancing Eunuchs
Welcome to the first of our poetry anthologies for this year. Mark's put together a quartet of favorite poems, and matched them to some appropriate musical interludes. From the Wall Street Crash to dancing eunuchs, life's rich variety is all here... Steyn on FoxIndependence and Tyranny
Gary Sinise from Hollywood and Bo Snerdley from Rush are among Mark's guests on his post-Fourth of July show The War on Free SpeechMichael E Mann, Loser (Again)
A couple of developments on the global warm-monger front Mann vs SteynFootball and Hockey
The Corner post that launched a lawsuit... |
A Clubman's NotesThe Smoky Inferno of Crude Effort
Programming note: I'll be in for Tucker again tomorrow, Monday, live across America at 8pm Eastern. Hope you'll swing by. Thank you for all your kind words on this latest Tale for Our Time. Larry Durham, a South Carolina member of The Mark Steyn Club (and no relation, presumably, to the Durham Report), enthuses: I am thoroughly enjoying Burning Daylight. I like reading along with Steyn's marvelous oratory. Do any of my fellow clubbers do the same? Also, I binge listened to The Prisoner of Zenda over the last couple of days (in between releases of Burning Daylight) - Splendid! It's one thing to drop in for the free content; however, I'm telling everyone I know to ante up for the Club subscription. Tales for Our Time is more than worth the ... A Clubman's NotesArms and the Bunco Squad
In Part Fourteen of Burning Daylight Daylight could use a little bit of arms control... A Clubman's NotesBuncoed in Moose Pasture
The thirteenth episode of Burning Daylight, Jack London's sweeping novel of the Alaska Gold Rush and the San Francisco Gilded Age... A Clubman's NotesThe Rush Is On
Episode Twelve of this season's summer diversion - a grand rollicking tale with a title character full of swagger and life as he journeys from the Yukon in the Gold Rush to San Francisco in the Gilded Age... A Clubman's NotesUp Dominion Creek
Welcome to Part Eleven of our nightly audio adventure Burning Daylight. The listening is anything but easy when Jack London is prowling the Klondike. Mark Steyn Club member Paul Cathey writes from Colorado... A Clubman's NotesA Wall of Ice
Welcome to Episode Ten of our serialization of Jack London's Burning Daylight. In tonight's episode, a starved and weakened Daylight comes up with one last long shot to bust out of the trap... A Clubman's NotesGrounds, Slime, and an Occasional Squirrel
In Part Nine of Burning Daylight Daylight and Elijah are holed up in a land without wildlife... A Clubman's NotesA Feverish Metropolis on a Waste of Flat
Episode Eight of Jack London's Burning Daylight A Clubman's NotesSledding into the Bar-Room
Part Seven of Burning Daylight, a Jack London yarn hugely popular in its day, yet all but forgotten now... A Clubman's NotesA Cold Camp
Part Six of a grand novel by Jack London roaming the continent from the Klondike to Nob Hill... A Clubman's NotesTitubating to Tituba
Part Five of our summer audio entertainment by Jack London, Burning Daylight A Clubman's NotesA Quiet Night in the Shovel
Welcome along to the forty-ninth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time: Jack London's sweeping story from 1910, Burning Daylight... A Clubman's NotesMore Equal Than Others
Welcome along to the forty-eighth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time: As I wrote last weekend, we're starting June with some heavyweight political satire - Animal Farm by George Orwell... A Clubman's NotesThe Elphbergs - with a Word on the Rassendylls
Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor... |
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