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Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: June 7-13
Today is the U.S. Army's birthday (251), President Trump's birthday (80), and lest we forget, Flag Day. In 1949, Congress designated June 14 as Flag Day. But Flag Day's history is more storied than a mere Act of Congress. It was a grassroots effort to instill respect and patriotism for the symbol of the United States. During the early days of the Civil War, "Flag Day" was first proposed to rally support for the Union Army after the attack on Fort Sumter. A few years later, a teacher named Bernard J. Cigrand of Wisconsin held the first observance of "Flag Day" for students. Cigrand would advocate for a dedicated day devoted to the U.S. flag for the rest of his life and is remembered as the "Father of Flag Day." Later in the 19th century, ...
Rick's Flicks
Print the Legend: The End of it All in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Rick McGinnis reviews John Ford's 1962 western...
Topical Take
The Not So Curious Case in Dundee
Mark Steyn Clubbers may remember last August Mark's discussion of a case in Dundee, Scotland, where sisters were being harassed by migrants, but who were then charged by the local coppers - the girls, not the migrants. The older sister at the time, to protect her younger sister, brandished a knife and an axe. The MSM immediately came to the aid of the migrants, not the girls (ages 14 and 12). Well, today the case was resolved - and good, ol' fashioned justice won the day. The girls - after a torturous year of media attention, legal fees and the like - have been vindicated. And now the tormentors - from Bulgaria - have been found guilty of making sexual remarks to underage girls (the charges should have more, but nevertheless...). Below is ...
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...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday, June 10
Guest hosts Tal Bachman and Laura Rosen Cohen field questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet...
Tuesday Notebook
Of Pitbulls and Islamists
Alpha polemicist Sam Harris is an enthusiastic and persuasive debater, but in his June 5 substack post, reproduced in the Free Press, titled, "Why it's futile to debate Israel's enemies," he informed his readers that he would no longer debate antizionists. Harris has concluded that it is pointless to debate with people who take a dimmer view of those who shoot rabid dogs than they do of the rabid dogs themselves. As he explained, "if my intransigence on these matters mystifies you, it might help to understand that, for whatever reason, I think militant Islam is ten times worse than you think it is. When I talk about "jihadists" and their various groups – Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, the IRGC, etc. – I'm talking about ...
The Bachman Beat
An Odyssey To Ignore, Part III
The Odyssey is a story about Greeks, written down by a Greek author, taking place in Greek-speaking areas...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Trump, Soccer and Canada
In case you missed our Clubland Q&A with guest hosts Laura Rosen Cohen and Tal Bachman, here's the action replay...
Topical Take
When Wanker Coppers Kill
Mark has been busted out of hospital but still has a way to go before he is at full strength. Thank you for the many kind inquiries, prayers and supportive messages - which he very much enjoys receiving. Overnight, the release of bodycam footage out of the UK of the arrest of stabbing victim Henry Nowak has raised questions yet again re institutions supposedly founded on the principles of Robert Peel...
Friday Notebook
A Monster and his Suck-Ups
As the USS Nimitz heads to the Caribbean, we share Mark's "obituary" to Fidel Castro...
Topical Take
A Society Entirely Without "Division"
The groupthink in our public discourse is so pervasive it goes as unnoticed as the air...
Politics & Current Affairs
Decapitation for Thee ...and for Me
Programming note: On May 6th 2017 The Mark Steyn Club slipped quietly onto the Internet, and, unlike many of the noisier online launches of the era, we're still here nine years later. We thank (almost) all our First Week Founding Members for re-upping for a tenth year, and we hope our First Fortnight members will want to do the same as this first week of our new season draws to a close...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
The Great Satan
In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
Politics & Current Affairs
Choosing Their Words
If you're wondering what the US Secret Service do when they're not letting you sprint through the security checkpoint, well...
Politics & Current Affairs
The Strait Jacket
"Wars the world has lost interest in" is paradoxically a subject of great interest to me...
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
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...
On the Town
Franz and Friend
On this week's On the Town Steyn plays a cavalcade of big names - Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff - plus a bloke you've never heard of but whose tunes you certainly will know...
On the Town
King of the Swingers Meets Emperor of Austria
Mark with an hour of music - and memories of a rather odd double-date in Delaware...
On the Town
Somewhere in France with You
A special D-Day edition of Mark's Serenade Radio show, turning the clock back to the sounds and sentiments of the era...
After America
The Swallows Skim, and All Is Hushed
A special Memorial Day edition on battle, sacrifice and remembrance - from the Civil War to the Great War to the unwon wars of our own time...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Some Enchanted Evening, Rodgers and Hammerstein, AND Frank Sinatra
The words came first. With Rodgers & Hart, the music came first. But Rodgers & Hammerstein opted to reverse the process, which is why the tunes lack that particular freewheeling quality of Rodgers' music in the Twenties and Thirties...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Who's Afraid of the Weeping Willow?
Today's episode celebrates an old friend of our host, the late Ann Ronell, who tells Mark about her two biggest hits...
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...
Tales for Our Time
Jinns, Rosières, and Prince Bob
One of the most popular features of Tales for Our Time has been the music Mark chooses to accompany each story. So here, after many requests, is a sampler of the accompanying melodies from some of our tales...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Just a Gigolo
Mark traces the history of a very distinctive song from the twilight of the Habsburg Empire to the twilight of disco via an especially pitiful act of rock karaoke and the loss of the word "gigolette"...
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...
On the Town
You Don't Have to Be Bananas to Work Here
On this week's edition, being of a contrarian bent, we start by going beddy-bye and end at dawn. In between come an easy-listening take on a rock classic, and an extended cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones...
A Clubman's Notes
"The Moslem Character"
The conclusion of our seventy-ninth Tale for Our Time: The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer...
A Clubman's Notes
A Night Most Strangely Still
In episode twenty, Cavanagh and the girl with the violet eyes are hot on the trail of Hassan...
A Clubman's Notes
Yellow Silk and Hashish
In episode thirteen of Sax Rohmer's Mohammedan caper, thriller abducted hero awakes in a heady environment...
A Clubman's Notes
Islam Comes Knocking
In episode five, the forces of the Prophet manage to get the better of Scotland Yard's finest...
A Clubman's Notes
The Box Trick of Mohammed
In Part Three of our serialisation of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer, Cavanagh suspects someone is trailing him...
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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