Fearful Symmetry
Programming note: If you missed today's audio edition of Steyn's Song of the Week on Serenade Radio in the UK, do treat yourself and catch the rerun. It airs Monday morn at 5.30am London time - that's 9.30pm Sunday on the US and Canadian West Coast, so a kind of late-night vibe to it, but it's early Monday afternoon in Oz, so a mellow post-prandial feel to it. Whichever you prefer, we hope you'll tune in. You can listen from anywhere on the planet right here. On the subject of rhymed words, albeit without accompanying music, welcome to a brand new entry to our Mark Steyn Club anthology of video poetry. Because, as I always say, video poetry is where the big bucks are. Last month's celebration of the first poem published in Australia ... |
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Steyn's Song of the WeekWhat Is This Thing Called Love?
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. This month we are marking the centenary of Nelson Riddle, perhaps the greatest of all arrangers of popular song. That's what Frank Sinatra thought, and we cite "I've Got the World on a String", "I've Got You Under My Skin" and "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" as merely the obvious examples. This week's selection is less frequently cited, but is a particular favorite of mine. On March 27th 1929 the Charles B Cochran revue ... Mark's Week in ReviewA Se'nnight of Steyn, June 6-13
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark... Rick's FlicksMad Love: History Is Made at Night
Rick McGinnis on Frank Borzage's anachronistic screwball comedy-romance-disaster film History Is Made at Night... Ave atque valeDoing the Decent Thing
In the latest audio episode of Mark Steyn's Passing Parade, Mark looks at John Profumo before and after the scandal, and Madame Chiang kai-Shek before and after the loss of China The Bachman BeatTal Bachman: We Have Met the Enemy, part VII
Tal Bachman on man's lack of knowledge, the pursuit of truth, and whether hubris or piety afflicted Oedipus... Politics & Current AffairsKeeping the Seat Warm
Notes on recent sightings of conservatism - or "conservatism" The Mark Steyn ShowWu Is Us
Today's show was a Covid-double-mutation hybrid of the Steyn Show and our Clubland Q&A in which Mark answered questions live around the planet, punctuated by various regular features such as The Hundred Years Ago Show,,, Clubland Q&ALive Around the Planet ...with a Difference
Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world Laura's LinksVirtue Signalling by Mask
Laura Rosen Cohen on masked virtue signalling, the social media pogrom, and woke comedy... Politics & Current AffairsCaving In
We are in a literally Orwellian world now The Mark Steyn ShowDown for the Count
A tale of two soundbites - and a BBC story with no soundbites at all. Plus: is Justin Trudeau more thoroughly penetrated than Eric Swalwell? All the big questions of our time get answered... The Mark Steyn ShowThe Narrowing Bounds of Discourse
Welcome to a special presentation of The Mark Steyn Show, delving into the evergreen subject of free speech... The War on Free SpeechMichael E Mann, Loser (Again)
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A Clubman's NotesTasting Blood
Just ahead of Episode Eight of our current Tale for Our Time, a word from your humble host: As I was saying a year ago, things are going to get real bad real fast on the free-speech front - in America, Britain, Canada, Europe, and everywhere else where a full-scale merger of Big State and Big Tech is well advanced. I would like to think we'll still be here in a year's time, but looking at the ever swelling ranks of the disappeared, who knows? In such circumstances, I thank all of you who keep this l'il ol' website and its various activities part of your daily rounds. I miss the Internet of yore - before the woketalitarians imposed one-size-fits-all "social media" on the planet and wrecked the thing. Control of the message is, of course, a ... A Clubman's NotesThe Age of Plenty
It's time for Part Seven of Animal Farm, a tale that is almost too timely. Rachel Aranoff, a New York member of The Mark Steyn Club, writes: 'Dear Mark – I am loving your reading of Animal Farm! The line that blew me away in Part Three was, 'It's science!' There is nothing new under the sun. Rachel' Indeed, Rachel. Totalitarianism masquerading as technocracy is the whole trick of modern government... A Clubman's NotesPorcine Palace
Part Six of our latest nightly audio entertainment - a bit of escapism all about how utopian illusions curdle into something dark, tyrannous and violent. So nothing to do with our world then. Instead, it's Animal Farm by George Orwell... A Clubman's NotesSnowball in Hell
Part Five of Animal Farm, George Orwell's ever timelier tale of equality and its hierarchies... A Clubman's NotesMuted Enthusiasm
Part Four of George Orwell's ever timelier tale Animal Farm A Clubman's NotesA Resolution of One's Own
Part Three of Animal Farm by George Orwell A Clubman's NotesGetting There from Here
Part Two of Animal Farm by George Orwell. These are serious times, and Orwell's self-described "fairy story" is a serious tale... 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... Ave atque valeTosca and Butterfly
Episode Fifteen of Mark Steyn's Passing Parade features two servants of dark and ugly regimes... The Hundred Years Ago ShowTwenty-Four Hours in Tulsa
Keep up to date with the past with Mark's world news update from 1921 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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