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Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: July 5-11
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick's Flicks
Marooned: Bing Crosby and Carole Lombard in We're Not Dressing
During filming of We're Not Dressing, a 1934 musical comedy that came out a month before Carole Lombard ascended into the top rank of screwball comedy heroines with Twentieth Century, her co-star Bing Crosby discovered that the actress had a rather extreme reaction to her one notable phobia. As recalled by Gary Giddins in Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years 1903-1940, Crosby had to slap Lombard in one scene. "At her request, he refrained during rehearsal, but when the scene was filmed, she responded violently. Howard Hawks liked to take credit for creating Lombard as a comic actress by encouraging her to kick John Barrymore in the balls in Twentieth Century. "According to Bing, she required no coaching: she kicked, punched, ...
The Bachman Beat
Machiavelli's "The Prince"
Guest columnist Tal Bachman on Machiavelli and the art of translation...
The Mark Steyn Show
A Murder on Dartmoor
We were sorry to hear of the death yesterday of Ann Widdecombe, former Conservative minister, former Strictly Come Dancing contestant, former Brexit MEP, and latterly Reform UK's immigration spokesperson. Today came the shocking news that Ann was murdered. The suspect remains at large and is said by the Prime Minister to be "clearly dangerous". It seems a terrible end for one of the most normal and most fun personalities in British politics. Ann's views on migrants, abortion and the LGBTQWERTY ensured that, unlike almost all her Tory contemporaries, she remained ungarlanded by the British state. Nevertheless, Mark was always glad to see her in the telly green rooms. Here is one such appearance on TheMark Steyn Show four years ago. The ...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
That's Demography!
In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around The Planet Wednesday July 8th
Mark was back fielding questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet...
Politics & Current Affairs
Main Character Syndrome
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...
Politics & Current Affairs
Let Me Show You to Your Room
Distance lends a smidgeonette of enhanced perspective...
Politics & Current Affairs
The Crossroads of Europe
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...
Politics & Current Affairs
Pick Your Poison: Droned? Or Raped and Stabbed?
Random killing in Ukraine vs random killing in the west...
A Clubman's Notes
The Sick Bed
Steyn reads the concluding episode of his highly prescient bestseller America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It...
A Clubman's Notes
The End of the World, Twenty Years On
Part One of Mark's audio adaptation of his demographic blockbuster...
Politics & Current Affairs
It's Still the Demography, Stupid
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...
Politics & Current Affairs
Dispatches from My Coma
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 ...
On the Town
An Empty Table for the Second-Floor Bird
Welcome to another brand new post-coma edition of Mark Steyn on the Town. On today's show, Mark plays a range of eminent songwriting teams from Rodgers & Hart to, er, Dicks & Rudge. In between we have a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones and a celebration of a peerless pianist - and Steyn concludes with a brief remembrance of the late Bonnie Tyler...
A Clubman's Notes
The Benighted Traveler
Welcome to the conclusion of our eightieth Tale for Our Time: My Kinsman, Major Molineux, an allegory of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Hawthorne...
A Clubman's Notes
A Handsome Country Youth and a Dainty Mistress
In this penultimate episode, young Robin thinks he has finally found his eminent cousin...
A Clubman's Notes
The Natives Are Restless
Welcome to the eightieth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time: a special selection for America's semiquincentennial...
Steyn's Song of the Week
I'll Never Fall in Love Again
Mark celebrates a Bacharach & David classic...
On the Town
Openings and Closings
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...
On the Town
Kings and Vagabonds (and Boutonnieres)
Steyn marks the official birthdays of both the King and The Lion King - and celebrates Father's Day...
Steyn's Song of the Week
A High Flying Flag
In honor of Flag Day, enjoy Mark's history of the Stars & Stripes and "You're A Grand Old Flag"...
On the Town
The Canine Sinatra
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...
On the Town
The Last Farewell
Welcome to this week's edition, coming to you live-ish from the delightful and historic city of Odessa...
On the Town
Dancing with the Polovtsians
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...
A Clubman's Notes
Hands Off
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...
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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