Welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links. What a great week it has been, with the Great Prophet Steyn himself feeling well enough to get back to the mic for The Mark Steyn Club Live Q&A Around the Planet. If you missed the live show, you can listen to it here. That was certainly the highlight of the week, it was great to hear our fearless leader once again. ~ Last week, I asked you all if there was anything that you were working on spiritually, psychologically or otherwise. I shared that I'm focusing on listening, and really being in the moment of conversation and knowing that no matter how much I want to put my two cents into the conversation at that moment, that it's important to keep listening. Even if something really funny, ...
In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
Mark was back fielding questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet...
A new series from Tal Bachman...
Rick McGinnis on Abraham Lincoln and the big screen...
In case you missed our Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
It's hardly news that women have been steadily moving ever further left politically at a pace – "radically" – that far outstrips men, whose views tend to be stable...
Distance lends a smidgeonette of enhanced perspective...
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...
Random killing in Ukraine vs random killing in the west...
Steyn reads the concluding episode of his highly prescient bestseller America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It...
Part One of Mark's audio adaptation of his demographic blockbuster...
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...
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. I was there to research a personal project, but did not manage to complete my work, and was planning to return in late summer. I understand that, in a world where Victoria Nuland and Lindsey Graham lob darts at the map blindfold in order to select the next hapless country to implode, it can be hard for Americans to retain interest in this or that passing quagmire, but I find it helpful to see these places for myself and felt ...
Welcome to the conclusion of our eightieth Tale for Our Time: My Kinsman, Major Molineux, an allegory of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Hawthorne...
In this penultimate episode, young Robin thinks he has finally found his eminent cousin...
Welcome to the eightieth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time: a special selection for America's semiquincentennial...
Mark celebrates a Bacharach & David classic...
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...
Steyn marks the official birthdays of both the King and The Lion King - and celebrates Father's Day...
In honor of Flag Day, enjoy Mark's history of the Stars & Stripes and "You're A Grand Old Flag"...
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...
Welcome to this week's edition, coming to you live-ish from the delightful and historic city of Odessa...
Mark in conversation with Artie Shaw and Julio Iglesias on a Cole Porter classic...
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...
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...
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...