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Welcome to the Tuesday edition of The Mark Steyn Show, with another update from the Summer of Stupid, plus your way or the Norway, Irish troubles then and now, transitioning from here to there, Campaign 2020 poll musings, Gandhi and Garvey, Hugh Hefner and Joni Mitchell, and much more. Click above to listen. Mark will return this evening with the latest episode of his brand new Tale for Our Time, The Prisoner of Windsor. If you're a Mark Steyn Club member and you'd like to submit a question for Mark to address on his next show, please leave it in the comments below. Do stay on topic - and no URLS, please, as they wreak havoc with our page formatting. For Steyn Club members interested in using their personal podcast players to listen to our ... |
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Laura's LinksPlagued by Luxury Beliefs
The wealthy don't need your peasant thoughts, a Tik Tok exodus, and Canada's most litigated joke gets an appeal – all in this week's Laura's Links. Steyn on CultureA Baroness on Barrenness
Phyllis Dorothy James was born in Oxford one hundred years ago today - August 3rd 1920. By the time she died in 2014, she was the undisputed successor to Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers as the "Queen of Crime", although she did not care for either comparison ("Such a bad writer," she sniffed of Dame Agatha). In her ninety-four years P D James did a lot of other things, too: She was a Conservative peeress in the House of Lords, and her time in the bureaucracy (she had been a Home Office civil servant) made her an effective chairman of things - whether of the Booker Prize for Fiction, or committees concerned with more earthbound endeavors. I had a slight acquaintance with her during my time at the BBC's "Kaleidoscope", where we used to ... Steyn's Song of the WeekI'll Never Smile Again
Mark celebrates the first American Number One record - and a Canadian song Ave atque valeJewels and Goals
Steyn remembers some of those lost to ChiCom-19 from all around the world: Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry maker, a beloved Pokémon voice, Abe Lincoln's son on Broadway, a pioneer goal scorer, Rome's hometown marathon runner, Cameroon's biggest international pop star, a Romanian dissident, a Swedish trombonist, a Senegalese soccer supremo, and the man behind some of "Saturday Night Live"'s most awkward moments... Mark's Week in ReviewA Se'nnight of Steyn, July 27-August 2
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark. Shaidle at the CinemaMarcel Dalio: Poster Boy, Invisible Man
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Guest columnist Andrew Lawton on the Canadian political scandal starring grifters, shell corporations, virtue signallers and a federal ethics probe – with Justin Trudeau at the center of it. The Bachman BeatThe Last of a Hundred Deaths
Guest columnist Tal Bachman reflects on the life – and many deaths – of Peter Green. The Mark Steyn ShowReindeer Games
An update on Election 2020, plus Olivia de Havilland singing, Pancho Villa surrendering, cheese and China, Regis and reindeer, Covid and contraceptives, and much more Ave atque valeA Not So Happy Warrior
A sad end for Mike Adams - and the silence of the "silent majority" The Mark Steyn ShowIt's China's World, We Just Pay For It
Mark's forage through the ruins of our civilization, with special emphasis on the increasingly un-inscrutable Chinese, a Spider-Man sequel you'll never see, the Trump coalition, W H Auden on flu-infected cities, joy to the world, Kenyan comics, cardboard counsel and much more... Steyn on FoxThe Race So Far
Mark and Tucker with the best of Campaign 2020 The War on Free SpeechThe Costs of Mann Delay
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A Clubman's NotesA Basic Chahar-Bagh
Welcome to Part Nineteen of our current Tale for Our Time, my sequel to and contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's Ruritanian bestseller of 1894. By the way, if you've a chum who's a fan of classic fiction in audio form, don't forget our Mark Steyn Club gift membership. In tonight's episode of The Prisoner of Windsor, our penniless Ruritanian covering for the British prime minister finds himself making an unexpected visit to Frogmore Mausoleum (at right). If you recall my serialization of the original, you may remember the moment when Rudolf Rassendyll, playing the King of Ruritania, extracts a promise from old Marshal Strakencz: "Marshal, I'm leaving Strelsau for a few days. Every evening I will send a courier to you. If for three days ... A Clubman's NotesThe Tilted Teapot
Episode Eighteen of The Prisoner of Windsor, Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's 1894 classic of honor and duty as understood by one Englishman in a very foreign land... A Clubman's NotesA New Use for a Dinner Table
Episode Seventeen of The Prisoner of Windsor A Clubman's NotesOverseers of Orientation Criteria
Welcome to Episode Sixteen of our nightly audio adventure, The Prisoner of Windsor - my contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's Ruritanian classic of 1894... A Clubman's NotesEarl Force One
Part Fifteen of Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda A Clubman's NotesMarmite Soldiers in the Prison Room
We continue our voyage through the bizarre fantastical kingdom of contemporary Britain in Mark's inversion of The Prisoner of Zenda A Clubman's NotesShock and Awe
Part Thirteen of Mark's contemporary inversion of a Ruritanian classic A Clubman's NotesThe Winter of Our Content
Part Twelve of Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's Ruritanian classic The Prisoner of Zenda A Clubman's NotesNumber One, Mr Speaker
Part Eleven of The Prisoner of Windsor A Clubman's NotesHappy as a King
In Part Ten of our contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda, a penniless Ruritanian finds himself invited to a glittering Coronation ball at Windsor Castle... A Clubman's NotesThe Elphbergs - with a Word on the Rassendylls
For this year's summer entertainment, Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor... Steyn's Song of the WeekMe and Julio Down in Hong Kong with the Boom-Ding-a-Diggi Blues
Paul Simon and Dana join Mark for a musical wander through Truman Capote's fantasies, the Hong Kong blues, and the glory days of Eurovision The Mark Steyn Weekend ShowSteyn's Sunday Poems: Summer Special
Welcome to the first of our weekend specials this summer - an anthology of some favorite Mark Steyn Show poems of recent months... |
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