Welcome to the weekend edition of the locked-down and boarded-up Mark Steyn Show, with Mark's further thoughts on the bifurcation of society, lessons for today from H G Wells and France's Reign of Terror, when Covid comes for the boy band, and more. Click above to listen. Mark will be back this evening for the latest episode of G K Chesterton's thriller, The Man Who Was Thursday, and up early tomorrow for a special appearance on "Fox & Friends". Mark Steyn Club members interested in using their personal podcast players to listen to our new Mark Steyn Shows or our series of audio adventures Tales for our Time can find instructions here - and the RSS page itself here. If you prefer to read your radio shows, Steyn Club members can peruse the ...

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Kathy Shaidle takes a look at Pontypool, the Canadian zombie film in which words of adoration are society's viral pandemic.

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Tuesday was #BlackoutTuesday, when high-end emporia and fashionable brands all blacked out their logos in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter. I'm thinking of starting #PlywoodThursday, when SteynOnline covers up its logo with a sheet of plywood in solidarity with all those convenience stores and all-night pharmacies trying to ward off the looters. Perhaps we'll get a hashtag - #FunctioningSocietyMatters, if only to a few of us. The New Normal and the Old Normal operate simultaneously: it's illegal to barbecue a steak in your backyard but feel free to barbecue the entire supermarket you got it from. The internal contradictions of Lockdownistan holding state-approved riots are no problem for a skilled commissar like New Jersey Governor Phil ...

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Today's civilizational fire sale of news and comment, plus State Department priorities, looting in an age of Corona, prohibition blues, Armenia then and now, and a song for a lost Minneapolis...

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The lawmakers who said protesting lockdown was unsafe are all for Black Lives Matter protests. Also, a creepy mayor lauds "people who menstruate" and something is bubbling up from the DC swamp.

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Today, Tuesday Mark joined Razia Iqbal on the BBC World Service Newshour to discuss social media, Trump and free speech with Professor Scott Lucas of Birmingham University. Click above to listen. If you like Steyn in audio, join him this evening...

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Riotous commentary on the passing scene, plus Your Monday Mohammed, the dark secrets of a continent from Madrid to the Bukovina, Brazilian jezebels, and more...

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A classic hit for Tom Jones' eightieth birthday

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The riots in Minneapolis and the breakdown in public order - plus circumnavigating North America, what terrified the fearless Sir John Franklin, Bill Barr on social media's bait-and-switch, and Star Wars, Eurodisco and pink shorts...

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A rare moment of judicial sanity

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Will hockey-stick climate mullah comply with the Court's order?

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The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...

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Cary Katz's four floppo Steyn suits (and counting)

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Litigious losers Cary Katz and Blaze/CRTV strike out yet again

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Just ahead of tonight's episode in our current Tale for Our Time, a word from your humble host: As the world bisects into lockdown and looting, I thank all of you who keep this l'il ol' website and its various activities part of your daily rounds. We try to make modest adjustments for the tenor of the times, and one such is this spring's audio format of The Mark Steyn Show, which I hope you find a cheery companion regardless of whether you are housebound by state edict or because of rampaging mobs on the street. Richard Greene, a First Day Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club from Connecticut, writes: Thank you for always providing an interesting overview of current events by placing them in the context of past history. I don't know how ...

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Part Seven of Mark's serialization of The Man Who Was Thursday by G K Chesterton

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Part Six of a tale of anarchy from the Edwardian era - The Man Who Was Thursday

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Part Five of my serialization of The Man Who Was Thursday, G K Chesterton's metaphysical thriller of anarchists threatening law and order in the years before the First World War...

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Part Four of The Man Who Was Thursday, taking us from our anarchic age to the anarchists of a century ago...

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Part Three of Mark's serialization of The Man Who Was Thursday by G K Chesterton, a tale of anarchists on Edwardian London streets to divert you from the anarchists on 21st century American streets...

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Welcome to Part Two of The Man Who Was Thursday by G K Chesterton, a metaphysical thriller concerning anarchists, policemen, and many other aspects all too familiar in our own time...

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Welcome to the thirty-sixth audio adventure in our popular series Tales for Our Time, and, after many requests these last three years, it is at last a tale by G K Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday...

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Mark celebrates the centenary of a great singer who also wrote great songs

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Welcome to another entry in our Mark Steyn Club anthology of video poetry - Mark reads a disturbing poem by Robert Browning, My Last Duchess...

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