One hundred years ago this month - April 1918 - an unknown song was propped up on the music stand of a Columbia recording studio for the very first time. And in the ensuing century it's never stopped being recorded and sung and played. There are other songs from 1918 that are still kinda sorta known - "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?", "Hinky-Dinky Parlay-Voo" - and still sung - "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody". But even the ones that aren't explicitly about the Great War have a period feel to them. This one is different: If you got a quintet of great jazz players together, told 'em the title and said, "A-one, a-two, a...", what followed would be fresh and vital, and the cobwebs of a century nowhere in sight. After You've ...

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This was an important week for Mark, in which Judge Bransten of the New York Supreme Court upheld every last dot and comma of Judge Gordon's decision in the CRTV vs Steyn case. It was a devastating, total defeat for CRTV summed up in this New York Daily News headline...

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Programming note: Later this evening, Saturday, Mark joins Kat Timpf, Tyrus and Jim Florentine on The Greg Gutfeld Show, coast to coast across America at 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific. We hope you'll tune in! Monday is St George's Day, which is England's national day. So I thought for this week's movie pick we'd choose something English - and in recent decades, cinema-wise, the dominant school of English film-making was essentially the work of one man: Richard Curtis. Emma Freud was a comrade of mine on Ned Sherrin's "Loose Ends" for many years, and she was also Richard's sweetheart (as she still is). So he used to come meet her after the show on Saturday mornings. And my memory of post-show tipples in the ghastly BBC pub afterwards is that he ...

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Mark guest-hosts Tucker's weekly news quiz, "Final Exam"

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Enoch Powell and a political speech that echoes down the decades

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Mark on Governor Cuomo's bizarre claim to be "undocumented", and his subsequent foray into the etymology of ethnic slurs:

Speaking of the litigious nature of American society, yesterday the New York Supreme Court confirmed Steyn's triumph in CRTV's lawsuit against him...

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A big day for Mark - on the TV screen and in the courthouse

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Mark guest-hosts for Tucker and talks immigration, Comey, racism in Starbucks, and goat yoga

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Mark pays tribute to Barbara Bush - but not James Comey:

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Welcome to a brand new SteynPost in which Mark addresses the British state's new war on cutlery - and household tools, and garden implements:

SteynPosts is made possible through the support of members of The Mark Steyn Club, for which...

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Mark did double-duty on Monday's edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight". First up was former FBI director James Comey's self-serving interview on ABC:

Next up was The New Yorker's distaste for being...

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Steyn on a portent of the future; immigration and free speech; why the GOP base despises its leaders; and "Hey, Jude" vs "What a Wonderful World"

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A case that should never have been brought finally ends.

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Welcome to the final installment of our current Tale for Our Time - written in 1885 by Robert Louis Stevenson, first as a shilling shocker and then, at his wife's suggestion, as a darker allegorical tale...

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Welcome to the eighth episode of our current Tale for Our Time - Robert Louis Stevenson's classic allegory of good and evil in one human form...

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It's time for Part Seven of my serialization of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. In tonight's episode Dr Lanyon receives a visitor and comes, so to speak, face to face with the truth...

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Welcome to Part Six of the latest audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time, a psychological shocker first published in 1886: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson...

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Here comes Part Five of my serialization of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, written in 1885 by Robert Louis Stevenson, published early the following year, and never out of print in the century-and-a-third since...

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Here we go with Part Four of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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Welcome to Part Three of my serialization of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the latest in our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time...

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Welcome to Part Two of The Mark Steyn Club's latest Tale for Our Time - an acknowledged classic by Robert Louis Stevenson...

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Welcome to the thirteenth in our series Tales for Our Time - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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Steyn marks the bicentennial of Shelley's "Ozymandias"

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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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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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The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...

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