From Covid to Canceled
Welcome to a special edition of The Mark Steyn Show, marking our fiftieth programme since we launched this series as the world lurched into lockdown for two weeks to "flatten the curve", and then staggered on to an unchurched Easter, a parade-less Memorial Day, a Canada Day with trigger warnings on the Canadian flag and a not so Glorious Fourth with Columbus, Washington and Francis Scott Key being toppled from their pedestals. In today's edition Mark presents an audio kaleidoscope of the spring and summer of this very weird year culled from all fifty shows, with pertinent vignettes from America, Canada, Britain, Australia, France, Turkey and above all China. From lockdown to looting, it's all here, including Basement Joe, Moistly Justin, ... |
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Shaidle at the CinemaThe "Blow Up Your School" Subgenre
Kathy Shaidle on the macabre 'Blow Up Your School' cinematic subgenre going back all the way to 1933. The Bachman BeatMachiavelli for Dessert
Guest columnist Tal Bachman brings a story of the little guy against the corporations in this ode to a key lime pie. Laura's LinksPlagued by Luxury Beliefs
The wealthy don't need your peasant thoughts, a Tik Tok exodus, and Canada's most litigated joke gets an appeal – all in this week's Laura's Links. The Mark Steyn ShowManacle Mania
Another update from the Summer of Stupid, plus your way or the Norway, Irish troubles then and now, transitioning from here to there, Campaign 2020 poll musings, Gandhi and Garvey, Hugh Hefner and Joni Mitchell, and much more... Steyn on CultureA Baroness on Barrenness
Mark remembers P D James, and a remarkably prescient novel Steyn's Song of the WeekI'll Never Smile Again
Mark celebrates the first American Number One record - and a Canadian song Ave atque valeJewels and Goals
Steyn remembers some of those lost to ChiCom-19 from all around the world: Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry maker, a beloved Pokémon voice, Abe Lincoln's son on Broadway, a pioneer goal scorer, Rome's hometown marathon runner, Cameroon's biggest international pop star, a Romanian dissident, a Swedish trombonist, a Senegalese soccer supremo, and the man behind some of "Saturday Night Live"'s most awkward moments... Mark's Week in ReviewA Se'nnight of Steyn, July 27-August 2
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark. The Mark Steyn ShowSeeds of Destruction
Mark's update on Campaign 2020, the "respectability" of China, roaring roller babes, moats with alligators, the slough of despond, seeds and colonels, and much more Politics & Current AffairsA WE Problem
Guest columnist Andrew Lawton on the Canadian political scandal starring grifters, shell corporations, virtue signallers and a federal ethics probe – with Justin Trudeau at the center of it. The Mark Steyn ShowReindeer Games
An update on Election 2020, plus Olivia de Havilland singing, Pancho Villa surrendering, cheese and China, Regis and reindeer, Covid and contraceptives, and much more Ave atque valeA Not So Happy Warrior
A sad end for Mike Adams - and the silence of the "silent majority" The Mark Steyn ShowIt's China's World, We Just Pay For It
Mark's forage through the ruins of our civilization, with special emphasis on the increasingly un-inscrutable Chinese, a Spider-Man sequel you'll never see, the Trump coalition, W H Auden on flu-infected cities, joy to the world, Kenyan comics, cardboard counsel and much more... Steyn on FoxThe Race So Far
Mark and Tucker with the best of Campaign 2020 The War on Free SpeechThe Costs of Mann Delay
Michael E Mann, loser, liar, scofflaw and deadbeat Mann vs SteynFootball and Hockey
The Corner post that launched a lawsuit... |
A Clubman's NotesChuter cum Shooter
Welcome to Part Twenty-Two of our current Tale for Our Time - my contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's 1894 classic The Prisoner of Zenda. John Wilson, a Colorado member of The Mark Steyn Club, has been enjoying it: This tale is picking up speed like Joe Biden's dementia. Can't wait for more. Does the author have any idea where it's heading, or can we compare its trajectory to Joe Biden again? Well, the final episodes are not yet written, so in theory our hero could end up getting on a flight to Delaware and settling down happily ever after in Joe's basement. Just ahead of that thrilling denouement, in tonight's episode of The Prisoner of Windsor, Britain's second-longest-serving Home Secretary finds the job is getting to her: "There ... A Clubman's NotesIn Residence at Cymbeline's Castle
Part Twenty-One of The Prisoner of Windsor, Mark's contemporary inversion of a Ruritanian classic A Clubman's NotesDeep Waters
Episode Twenty of Mark's contemporary inversion of The Prisoner of Zenda A Clubman's NotesA Basic Chahar-Bagh
Part Nineteen of Mark's sequel to and contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's Ruritanian bestseller of 1894 A Clubman's NotesThe Tilted Teapot
Episode Eighteen of The Prisoner of Windsor, Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's 1894 classic of honor and duty as understood by one Englishman in a very foreign land... A Clubman's NotesA New Use for a Dinner Table
Episode Seventeen of The Prisoner of Windsor A Clubman's NotesOverseers of Orientation Criteria
Welcome to Episode Sixteen of our nightly audio adventure, The Prisoner of Windsor - my contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's Ruritanian classic of 1894... A Clubman's NotesEarl Force One
Part Fifteen of Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda A Clubman's NotesMarmite Soldiers in the Prison Room
We continue our voyage through the bizarre fantastical kingdom of contemporary Britain in Mark's inversion of The Prisoner of Zenda A Clubman's NotesShock and Awe
Part Thirteen of Mark's contemporary inversion of a Ruritanian classic A Clubman's NotesThe Elphbergs - with a Word on the Rassendylls
For this year's summer entertainment, Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor... Steyn's Song of the WeekMe and Julio Down in Hong Kong with the Boom-Ding-a-Diggi Blues
Paul Simon and Dana join Mark for a musical wander through Truman Capote's fantasies, the Hong Kong blues, and the glory days of Eurovision The Mark Steyn Weekend ShowSteyn's Sunday Poems: Summer Special
Welcome to the first of our weekend specials this summer - an anthology of some favorite Mark Steyn Show poems of recent months... |
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