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Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: May 4-10
Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers among our readers in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere... Also, a very happy eighth birthday to all of us in The Mark Steyn Club! Welcome to all our new and returning members! Meanwhile, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick's Flicks
Holy Mess: Anthony Quinn in The Shoes of the Fisherman
People claimed they'd been watching a recent Netflix film based on a novel by Robert Harris to learn about how papal conclaves work. (Even more troubling was a rumour that cardinals in Rome had been watching it.) It would have been the most obvious choice for this week's film, but the "shock twist" ending is well known and I'd rather write about another, much older film, about another papal conclave, made back before movies about the Catholic Church were more basically sympathetic...
On the Town
Memories of Tomorrow
In this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we mark Golden Spike Day, enjoy songs from Texans and Tuscans, ponder a funny lady's serious turn, and remember all Frank's tomorrows.
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Enablers of Evil
Today's episode was filmed live on the Mark Steyn Iberian Cruise with three of our special guests: Sammy Woodhouse, Samantha Smith and Allison Pearson...
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Kashmiri Songs
If you missed today's edition of Steyn's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday May 7th
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...
Politics & Current Affairs
Eight Speech
Today is the eighth birthday of The Mark Steyn Club, launched on May 6th 2017. In honour of the occasion, the Supreme Court of Minnesota has decided to legalise women perambulating topless through the streets...
Politics & Current Affairs
War of 1812: The Rematch
There have been significant elections in His Majesty's three senior realms this last week, and a significant post-election development in Europe, too. I'll get to most of them tomorrow, but for now I'd like to focus a little more narrowly:
On the Town
Jinns, Rosières, and Prince Bob
One of the most popular features of Tales for Our Time has been the music Mark chooses to accompany each story. So here, after many requests, is a sampler of the accompanying melodies from some of our tales...
On the Town
Anniversary Songs
In this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we celebrate the show's first birthday with an extended outing of our Non-Stop Number Ones and a special edition of our Sinatra Sextet...
Politics & Current Affairs
Following the Science
Yesterday's government by expert is today's criminal conduct...
Politics & Current Affairs
When the Police Switch Sides
Disgraceful scenes on the streets of Montreal...
Mann vs Steyn
Mann Ordered to Pay More than Those He Sought to Destroy
In a stunning but not unexpected ruling today, Judge Irving of the DC Superior Court has reduced the unconstitutional punitive damages jury award against Mark from one million dollars to a mere $5,000...
A Clubman's Notes
Capital Disappointment
On to Part Nine of Jerome K Jerome's second very popular contribution to Tales for Our Time. In tonight's episode of Three Men on the Bummel, our intrepid trio arrive in the German capital and find it all a bit of a yawn...
A Clubman's Notes
Lessons in Language
Welcome to Part Eight of our birthday audio entertainment in Tales for Our Time. In tonight's episode, after a week of digressions, our trio finally arrive in Germany, to begin digressing more Germanically...
A Clubman's Notes
The Non-Scenic Route
Welcome to Part Seven of our birthday audio entertainment in Tales for Our Time. For this springtime, we're enjoying Three Men on the Bummel by the master of comic digression, Jerome K Jerome...
A Clubman's Notes
Nothing Useful
Welcome to Part Six of our birthday audio entertainment in Tales for Our Time...
A Clubman's Notes
Uncle Podger Among the Costermongers
Our birthday Tale for Our Time, and the seventieth of our Steyn Club audio adventures, is Mark's serialisation of Three Men on the Bummel, Jerome K Jerome's sequel to his comic classic Three Men in a Boat. In episode five, we have a digression within a digression...
A Clubman's Notes
Rise and Shine
Here we go with Part Four of our brand new Tale for Our Time - my springtime serialisation of Jerome K Jerome's even more idiosyncratic sequel to Three Men in a Boat - from 1900, Three Men on the Bummel...
A Clubman's Notes
The Overhauler Cometh
Welcome to the latest in our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time, and Part Three of Mark's serialisation of Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K Jerome...
A Clubman's Notes
The Society of Other Men
Welcome to Part Two of Three Men on the Bummel, our springtime audio adventure in Tales for Our Time. I thank you for all your kind words about this choice for our seventieth monthly yarn. John Wilson, a First Week Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club, writes: Thank you, Mark! This really is a treat for our 8th year together. In tonight's episode of Jerome K Jerome's whimsical sequel to his best-loved book, our hero puts into operation his cunning scheme to bunk off with the chaps to the Continent for a month...
A Clubman's Notes
Kind of a Bummel
Welcome to the seventieth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time. That's right: our seventieth. Never thought these capers would prove that popular, but it seems they do, and month by month we've built a spectacular archive that runs the gamut from A to Z ...well, not quite, but certainly A to W - Jane Austen to P G Wodehouse. As for our seventieth adventure, well, it's our second foray into the oeuvre of Jerome K Jerome. Back in 2019, I serialised Jerome's most famous book, Three Men in a Boat, which remains one of our most popular selections with listeners. The sequel isn't quite as famous, but it has all the key features of the original: the same trio of chaps, endless digressions, and great comic set-pieces. Three Men on the Bummel was published by Jerome K Jerome in 1900 and, like its predecessor, was a runaway bestseller. If the formula is similar, the setting and transportation are not: Instead of messing about on the River Thames, our intrepid trio will be bicycling through Germany. Ever since my reading of Three Men in a Boat, I've had requests to add this our library. So your wish is our command...
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The Whole Earth Is Our Hospital...
An Easter entry to Mark's anthology of video poetry - from T S Eliot's Four Quartets...
A Clubman's Notes
Cutting In ...and Cut Out
Welcome to the latest of The Mark Steyn Club's Tales for Our Time: Mark reads Part Two of Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Rubber Check"...
A Clubman's Notes
Bouncing On
This weekend we enjoy the simplest of short stories, a tale of catastrophic ordinariness: The Rubber Check, written in 1932 by F Scott Fitzgerald...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Body and Soul
If you missed today's Serenade Radio broadcast, here's a chance to catch up via this SteynOnline premiere of one of our audio Songs of the Week. In this show I tell the story of one of the most recorded of all compositions...
A Clubman's Notes
When the Getting Was Good...
Welcome to the sixty-ninth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time...
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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