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The Islamist Spectrum
According to sources, the van plus machete attack at a LGBTQ pride parade in Berlin, Germany on the weekend was carried out by the usual lone wolf: * Twenty-year old man born in Berlin of Lebanese descent. * Investigated for attempt to join IS in Syria. * Brought back from Lebanon to Germany to stand trial. * "Sentenced to 13 months for attempting a terror attack but the judge converted it to probation." * After his release in May of this year from the juvenile justice system, he attended two "screening" sessions and was scheduled to attend the third today as part of the "deradicalisation" program he was ordered to attend. * Police searched his home for a weapon less than a month ago but allegedly only found a toy gun. * Possible male ...
Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: July 19-25
Here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick's Flicks
Boys to Men: Rourke, Bacon, Barkin and More in Diner
Rick McGinnis reviews Barry Levinson's 1982 classic...
The Bachman Beat
Strictly Literal
Tune into tomorrow, Saturday, for a brand new episode of Mark Steyn on the Town at Serenade Radio at 5pm in the UK/ noon North American Eastern Time. My last installment wound up as yet another digression (what is wrong with me?), so before returning to Machiavelli's The Prince as a case study in translation, I want to zip back to where I left off two installments ago: Is there some specific set of principles which ought to guide the translation of great books? If so, what might they be? In other words, particularly when it comes to a great work of literature or philosophy, what distinguishes a great translation from an adequate translation from a poor translation? A lot of big names have weighed in on this topic over the years. One of ...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Death in Jordan
If you missed today's edition of our Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around The Planet: Wednesday July 22nd
Mark fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members...
Canada vs Free Speech
The People of Quebec v. Niqab
Today it's the hijab, tomorrow it will be the niqab...
The Mark Steyn Show
A Murder on Dartmoor
We were sorry to hear of the death yesterday of Ann Widdecombe, former Conservative minister, former Strictly Come Dancing contestant, former Brexit MEP, and latterly Reform UK's immigration spokesperson. Today came the shocking news that Ann was murdered...
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...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Summertime
Mark tells the story of one of the most recorded songs of the last hundred years...
On the Town
Rigoletto Most Ridic
Welcome to another brand new post-coma edition of Mark Steyn on the Town. On today's show, Mark's sunny disposition leads only to the breadline, our Classical Corner and Non-Stop Number Ones meet up for a little opera, and we luxuriate in the all-time lamest song title - all performed by a diverse range of musical artistes from Al Jolson and the Ink Spots to Linda Ronstadt and Hugh Laurie...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Nessun dorma
Mark finds himself at the strange confluence of footie and opera...
On the Town
An Evening for Some Terpsichore
Welcome to another brand new post-coma edition of Mark Steyn on the Town. On today's show, Mark plays the palace and tries the St Tropez twist. Plus: songs for swingin' superheroes and a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones...
Steyn's Song of the Week
The Merry Widow Waltz
Mark celebrates one of the most beautiful melodies ever written, and tries to overlook the words...
On the Town
An Empty Table for the Second-Floor Bird
Welcome to another brand new post-coma edition of Mark Steyn on the Town. On today's show, Mark plays a range of eminent songwriting teams from Rodgers & Hart to, er, Dicks & Rudge. In between we have a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones and a celebration of a peerless pianist - and Steyn concludes with a brief remembrance of the late Bonnie Tyler...
A Clubman's Notes
The Benighted Traveler
Welcome to the conclusion of our eightieth Tale for Our Time: My Kinsman, Major Molineux, an allegory of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Hawthorne...
A Clubman's Notes
A Handsome Country Youth and a Dainty Mistress
In this penultimate episode, young Robin thinks he has finally found his eminent cousin...
A Clubman's Notes
The Natives Are Restless
Welcome to the eightieth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time: a special selection for America's semiquincentennial...
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...
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...
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...
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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