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Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: June 28-July 4
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick's Flicks
Lost Causes: Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln
When Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865 the Civil War was nearly over. After recalling the circumstances of his first inaugural address, given precisely four years earlier and just before the nation fell into civil war, he told the crowd with characteristic understatement that "the progress of our arms...is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all." After the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation two years previous and the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment outlawing slavery by the House of Representatives just two months earlier, he observed to the crowd outside the East Portico of the Capitol Building that neither side fighting ...
On the Town
Lucky Fellows Wondrous Free
Happy 250th birthday to our American listeners - notwithstanding the Supreme Court's decision to mark the occasion by rendering US citizenship worthless and thereby nullifying American nationhood. Still, there will be time enough to raze the courthouse after the holiday weekend, so we hope listeners will enjoy today's lighter hearted observance of the semiquincentennial. In the course of the hour, we'll enjoy a calvacade of Non-Stop Number Ones from a quarter-millennium of Glorious Fourths, Frank Sinatra will sing of a land he loves, and I'll play the very first American song. To listen to the programme, simply click above. For this grand anniversary we also have a new and highly pertinent Tale for Our Time. Part Two airs tonight. Sample ...
The Bachman Beat
The Full Homer
Okay, let's wrap this up. First, my two cents about Homeric literary journeys: If we're going to read Homer, we ought to read him right. Get the full Homer experience. That first means reading an excellent translation. It also means learning the backstory before diving in. It might mean taking things a bit slower than usual, and consulting the odd commentary or podcast. That's a bit more intellectual effort, but then, the rewards will be far greater. What rewards, exactly? The rewards of broadening and deepening one's soul. Of living, feeling, seeing, time-traveling to, vicariously moving within, a much different culture, in a much different time, bound by much different senses of justice, honor, duty, right, than our own. Of - as Homer ...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
State of the Republic
In case you missed our Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday, July 1
Guest host Tal Bachman fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members...
Politics & Current Affairs
A Top-down Willed Failure
For decades, anyone who cared to know knew what was happening, and everyone in power knew who was enabling its unimpeded continuation, and everyone with a functioning brain knew why it was happening...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
The Great Satan
In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
A Clubman's Notes
The Sick Bed
Steyn reads the concluding episode of his highly prescient bestseller America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It...
Politics & Current Affairs
Let Me Show You to Your Room
Distance lends a smidgeonette of enhanced perspective...
Politics & Current Affairs
The Crossroads of Europe
Greetings from Ukraine. I'm in the Kharkiv oblast, which the huge numbers of Russian speakers all around prefer to call the Kharkov oblast. But, whichever your preferred vowel, this oblast is oh, such a blast. Last night, the actual Russians (from Russia, that is) tried to take a town about fifteen kilometres away from where I am...
Politics & Current Affairs
Pick Your Poison: Droned? Or Raped and Stabbed?
Random killing in Ukraine vs random killing in the west...
A Clubman's Notes
The End of the World, Twenty Years On
Part One of Mark's audio adaptation of his demographic blockbuster...
Politics & Current Affairs
It's Still the Demography, Stupid
Twenty years ago this month - January 2006 - The Wall Street Journal and The New Criterion published the first draft of what would become the thesis of my bestselling book, America Alone...
Politics & Current Affairs
Dispatches from My Coma
As readers may recall, in recent years, after announcing a rare bit of activity from yours truly, I have generally observed that I am engaging in such against the advice of my doctors. So it was that I spent over a month in Ukraine, venturing hither and yon and trying to stay one step ahead of the bombs and drones. I was there to research a personal project, but did not manage to complete my work, and was planning to return in late summer. I understand that, in a world where Victoria Nuland and Lindsey Graham lob darts at the map blindfold in order to select the next hapless country to implode, it can be hard for Americans to retain interest in this or that passing quagmire, but I find it helpful to see these places for myself and felt ...
A Clubman's Notes
A Handsome Country Youth and a Dainty Mistress
Happy Semiquincentennial to our American listeners. Mark's musical celebration of the big day can be found here. But we also have a pertinent Tale for Our Time for this weekend: My Kinsman, Major Molineux, Nathaniel Hawthorne's allegory of the American Revolution. In tonight's penultimate episode, young Robin thinks he has finally found his eminent cousin: "Pretty mistress," for I may call her so with a good conscience thought the shrewd youth, since I know nothing to the contrary, -- "my sweet pretty mistress, will you be kind enough to tell me whereabouts I must seek the dwelling of my kinsman, Major Molineux?" Robin's voice was plaintive and winning, and the female, seeing nothing to be shunned in the handsome country youth, thrust ...
A Clubman's Notes
The Natives Are Restless
Welcome to the eightieth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time. We are in our ninth season, and we've built a spectacular archive that runs the gamut from A to Z ...well, not quite, but certainly A to W - Jane Austen to P G Wodehouse. For America's semiquincentennial weekend, welcome to a meditation on the theme by Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter and much else...
Steyn's Song of the Week
I'll Never Fall in Love Again
Mark celebrates a Bacharach & David classic...
On the Town
Openings and Closings
Welcome to a post-coma edition of Mark Steyn on the Town. On today's brand new show, Mark plays a diverse range of musical artistes from Johnny Mercer to Cliff Richard, Al Jolson to the Smiths. In between we take a look at Frank Sinatra from the point of view of his longtime opening act, the late Tom Dreesen (see picture above), and we wish a happy hundredth birthday to hit songwriter Phil Springer...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Soliloquy
"I miss my dad more and more as the years go by. This Song for the Season is one he used to like singing..."
Seasons of Steyn
Happy Father's Day!
This special audio edition of The Mark Steyn Show presents a few Father's Day moments from across the various iterations of the show...
On the Town
Kings and Vagabonds (and Boutonnieres)
Steyn marks the official birthdays of both the King and The Lion King - and celebrates Father's Day...
Steyn's Song of the Week
A High Flying Flag
In honor of Flag Day, enjoy Mark's history of the Stars & Stripes and "You're A Grand Old Flag"...
On the Town
The Canine Sinatra
Welcome to this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town. On today's show, we start with Eurovisions past and end with the canine Sinatra...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Happy Birthday to You
There's really only one song with which we could celebrate The Mark Steyn Club's ninth anniversary...
On the Town
The Last Farewell
Welcome to this week's edition, coming to you live-ish from the delightful and historic city of Odessa...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Begin the Beguine
Mark in conversation with Artie Shaw and Julio Iglesias on a Cole Porter classic...
On the Town
Dancing with the Polovtsians
With so many ongoing Russian blasts across the oblasts, we enjoy a few extra Ukrainian blasts across the oblasts, with a brief detour into the good old days of the Polovtsian empire...
On the Town
Man, It's an Oblast!
Welcome to this week's edition. I'm weekending in Kiev, and so I thought we'd enjoy a bevy of blasts from oblasts...
A Clubman's Notes
Hands Off
Welcome to the seventy-ninth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time. Sax Rohmer was at one point one of the biggest-selling authors in the world - and then the arbiters of our culture decided to eighty-six his most famous creation...
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...
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