The Great Reprimitivization
Welcome along to the forty-sixth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time: Jack London's novella of 1912, The Scarlet Plague. As I mention in my introduction, this one first popped up on our list of potential serializations a year or so back because it was about a sudden new virus that unravels the world. But, of course, Covid as such did not unravel the world: our rulers' reaction to it did, and continues to do so in Michigan, Ontario, France, Germany and elsewhere. Yet The Scarlet Plague isn't about the plague, it's about re-primitivization. As I point out in my introduction to tonight's tale, that word comes courtesy of Robert D Kaplan a quarter-century back in The Atlantic Monthly: in a widely-read essay on the implosion of ... |
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Programming note: Later this evening Mark will begin a brand new Tale for Our Time. We hope you'll join him. Seventy years ago, April 1951, this famous record began a two-month run at Number One on the Billboard charts: That perfect little pop single still sounds great seven decades later, but we're not about records in this department, we're about songs. And there are so many records of that song that it's one of the most performed and recorded songs of all time: You can get it in country, pop, and a zillion jazz instrumentals. Anything left? Disco maybe? Nah, too late; been there, done that: How faint the tune? Not this one. It's not only one of the most performed and recorded songs of all time, it's the most performed and recorded song ... Mark at the MoviesInvasion of the Body Snatchers
Don Siegel died thirty years ago - April 20th 1991- and millions of folks who care not a jot or tittle about the names of movie directors surely know at least one Siegel scene. Here is Clint Eastwood five decades ago in Dirty Harry, with one of the most quoted lines of cinematic dialogue of the last half-century... The Mark Steyn Show"Do You Think That's a Problem?"
California's New Racism (no whites need apply), segregated funerals, northern guns, the unreal estate market, plus William McGonagall, D H Lawrence, Rodgers & Hammerstein, and another episode of The Hundred Years Ago Show - all with a strange Anglo-German regal thread running through the show... Clubland Q&ATo the Manor Burn
An hour-plus of Mark's answers to Steyn Club members on multiple topics from packing the US Supreme Court to the Afghan withdrawal via wokeism as class marker... Clubland Q&ALive Around the Planet: Thursday April 15th
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On Tuesday's Fox News Primetime, we began with Mark's take on the dissolution of the southern border... Steyn on FoxThe Moral Preening of Corporate Woke
Mark and his guests on corporate wokeness, the Permanent Emergency, and coppers busting up Easter The Mark Steyn ShowDigging the Holes
Boots on the ground, polls and politics, sales tax for policemen, China's checkmate, and more. There's also John Donne eschewing the far horizon, and the unsung songbook... The War on Free SpeechMichael E Mann, Loser (Again)
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Welcome to Part Eight of our audio adaptation of Mark Steyn's Passing Parade. On this weekend of the Duke of Edinburgh's Covid-constrained funeral, we look back to an ostensibly far more convulsive Royal death which, at least for a few weeks, caused the crown to lie uneasy. It was easy to get caught up in the madness that swept London in the aftermath of the Princess of Wales's fatal car crash. And, as I say in today's instalment, I was not immune to that: I began to have second thoughts about the Princess almost immediately after that assessment. And, as it turned out, I was too pessimistic about the Royal Family's post-Di prospects. The Queen is a wily old survivor. And by the time the Queen Mother died in 2002 and the people turned out ... The Mark Steyn Weekend ShowTenderest Fancies of a Desolate Planet
Welcome to a brand new entry to our Mark Steyn Club anthology of video poetry. Because, as Mark always says, video poetry is where the big bucks are. This week's poem is The Last of the Books by Alfred Noyes... Ave atque valeJumping to Concussions
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Welcome along to our forty-fifth audio adventure in Tales for Our Time. This one has been requested on and off over the years, and I resisted. But cometh the hour, cometh the dystopian novel... 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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