Live Around the Planet: Wednesday April 24th
Today, Wednesday, we'll be attempting another Clubland Q&A session, live around the world at 4pm Eastern in North America - that's 8pm Greenwich Mean Time. We'll try to pin down the rest of the time zones below, but do, as they say, check local listings. As Monday's readers will have deduced, I was actually a little taken aback by the industrial-strength dissembling of the media about the Easter bloodbath in Colombo. Unless you consciously sought out, say, the Indian papers, you would have no idea this was anything to do with the jihad crowd. So we'll pursue the question of whether the so-called mainstream media have advanced from fainthearted euphemists to gung-ho propagandists, and what that says about where we're headed. And, in this ... |
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Topical TakeDon't Mention the Jihad
As I wrote yesterday, I think media coverage of the Sri Lankan Easter massacre marked a further descent on a ever slipperier slope. But it's worth noting that we're where we are today because of trends set in motion back when this thing got going. Less than three months after 9/11 - December 1st 2001 - I published the following piece in The Spectator. In the ensuing eighteen years, every fatuous Islamoschmoozing tic of western politicians has expanded beyond parody: Are you a Western leader of the Judaeo-Christian or Agnostic-Atheist persuasion? Want to issue a public statement on how much you respect and value Islam as a peaceful religion of moderation and tolerance? Take a number, pal. The line's longer than the waiting-list at a ... Steyn on FoxA Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Mark and Tucker on Earth Day - and New York mayor Bill de Blasio's abolition of the skyscraper: Politics & Current AffairsTaqiyya for Easter
Let's say a fire breaks out at Notre Dame cathedral at the start of Holy Week, and just after two of the city's other most prominent churches have been attacked and vandalized. Well, I think we can all confidently say as the first flames are beginning to lick the ceiling that it's undoubtedly an accident. Cigarette butt. Or maybe an overheated smart phone. We don't need to get in there and sift through the debris. We can just announce it. On the other hand, when there are coordinated attacks on Easter services in Sri Lanka, it becomes a little more challenging to pass off multiple suicide-bombings... Steyn's Song of the WeekIt's Not Unusual
Mark remembers Les Reed - and Tom Jones' first ever hit record On the TownEaster Parade
Steyn on the only Easter pop standard - plus the meaning of the word "rotogravure", and whether anyone actually could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet Mark at the MoviesThe Passion Of The Christ
From fifteen Easters ago, Mel Gibson's blockbuster Steyn on CultureEdelweiss über alles
Your pop-culture scorecard: Kate Smith is racist, Rodgers & Hammerstein are Nazis, and Dame Edna is done... Steyn on FoxMulling Mueller
Mark gives his initial thoughts on Robert Mueller's long awaited report: Five Years AgoBehold the Power of the Cardboard Hashtag!
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A Clubman's Notes"This Will Kill That"
Mark presents a special Tale for Our Time featuring selections from The Hunchback of Notre Dame - or, to give it Victor Hugo's title in French, Notre-Dame de Paris. Because, as much as it's about Quasimodo and Esmeralda, it's also about the building... The Mark Steyn Weekend ShowThe Sweeter Melodies Unheard
A Clubman's NotesAnnouncing... The Second Annual Mark Steyn Club Cruise
Following last year's sell-out maiden voyage, we decided to make the Mark Steyn Club Cruise an annual event. And so the second Steyn cruise will leave Vancouver on September 4th and sail through Alaska's beautiful Inside Passage to Glacier Bay. I'll be doing double-duty, hosting the cruise, and also hosting live editions of The Mark Steyn Show at sea - with among others the great Dennis Miller... A Clubman's NotesCrowd-Making in Chicago
Welcome to the second half of our double-bill of science fiction by Rudyard Kipling: Isn't it almost time that our Planet took some interest in the proceedings of the Aerial Board of Control..? A Clubman's NotesKipling Does Sci-Fi
Welcome to the twenty-third yarn in these Tales for Our Time. We're going to be spending the next few days with a brace of stories featuring the Aerial Board of Control. What's that? Well... On the TownTwelfth Night Live!
with Mark and his guests Comden & Green, Everything But The Girl, the Georgian Voices, Stubby Kaye, Emma Kershaw with Tim Rice, the Klezmer Conservatory Band, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Russell Nype, Paul Sorvino, Carol Welsman and Koko Yamamoto & Tal Bachman Steyn's Song of the WeekAba Daba Honeymoon
For this week's live-music edition of Steyn's Song of the Week, Maria Muldaur temporarily abandons "Midnight at the Oasis" for a wild jungle ride: The War on Free SpeechThe Vertigo at the Top of the Stick
Michael E Mann's defamation suit against me enters its Mann vs SteynFootball and Hockey
The Corner post that launched a lawsuit... |
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