For almost a decade and a half now, the American "republic" has been decaying to the defining condition of a one-party state - that is, the total merger of the ruling party and the state. Last night, the dirty stinking rotten corrupt US Department of Justice signed off on a raid on Mar-a-Lago, so we've now moved into hardcore banana-republic territory: the regime's cops are busting into the home of the opposition leader. We're told this is because Trump took some "classified" documents with him when he left Washington. Yeah, that's always a pretext for an armed raid: You could ask Hillary Clinton or Sandy Berger. The FBI has been getting more brazen about its political thuggery this last year, increasingly relaxed about putting its thumb ...

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Monday's edition of The Mark Steyn Show started with Mark's general proposition that the world is now ruled by nutters, and then moved on to a few specific examples. Jasmine Birtles joined Steyn to ponder the return of "interest rates". Next up was South Australia's senator, Alex Antic, to discuss the comprehensive failure of the expert class, followed by Sophie Corcoran on the rise of "diversity czars". We rounded out the hour with David Starkey on post-imperial self-flagellation. All that plus your comments and questions along the way. Click below to watch: Tomorrow Mark will be back for Tuesday's Steyn Show, live at 8pm BST - that's 3pm North American Eastern. US and Canadian viewers may find the replay more convenient - that screens at ...

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Detroit throughout

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In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...

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Rick McGinnis on Howard Hawks' often-overlooked drama-romance-comedy-fantasy Only Angels Have Wings, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur...

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Guest host Andrew Lawton takes questions from Mark Steyn Club members on Pelosi and Taiwan, Trudeau and totalitarianism, Biden's long Covid, and more...

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SteynOnline's Canadian correspondent Andrew Lawton takes the reins for a live Clubland Q&A Friday at 3pm ET...

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Laura Perrins and Sue Cook on leadership and lockdown, plus Mark and Leanne Tomlin, bereaved by AstraZeneca and mocked in their grief by Twitter, and Gary Osborne on songs, ads and ukes...

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Laura Rosen Cohen on the myth of "safe and effective," the importance of choosing life, and how wokism is the new Maoism...

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A shocking exclusive from a town that coddles Pakistani rape-gangs - plus Leilani Dowding, Jamie Jenkins and Kathy Gyngell on Net Zero, excess mortality and The Big Shut-Up...

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Toby Young on the next prime minister; Eva Vlaardingerbroek on digital identity; Natalie Winters on the most widespread side-effect of the vaccines; and Alexandra Marshall on China...

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Laurence Fox on Britain's thought police, Eva Vlaardingerbroek on shifts in the Covid narrative, and Kelvin MacKenzie on open borders...

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A special edition devoted to a topic Mark has focused on particularly in the last six months - the devastating damage done around the world to millions of hitherto healthy persons by the Covid "vaccines"...

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Judith Durham died on Friday aged 79, at the Alfred Hospital in her home town of Melbourne. Hers is high up on a very short list of voices I would want to sing me into the hereafter, and I know that many other SteynOnline readers feel the same way about her. She kept almost all of that beautiful voice right to the end. Here she is in the Nineties, on a Seekers reunion tour, with a song that, notwithstanding its fairly appalling author, always touches me: The Seekers were the biggest pop group ever to come out of the Lucky Country. They had a lot of hits around the world, but, when I was in Victoria eight years ago, this was the one that provided the title for the then new biotuner about them that was enjoying its world premiere at Her ...

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August 1922 begins with a devastating typhoon, Fascists and Socialists battling on the streets of Italy, and the suspension of all telephones in North America...

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Mark remembers Paul Sorvino, actor, singer and much more...

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Welcome to the first of this season's summer anthologies of poetry and music, including a terrible Ulster anniversary remembered in song...

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Mark is joined by Gary Osborne, Elton John's lyricist on such hits as "Blue Eyes", to remember songwriter Norman Newell...

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The bicentennial of the death of one of the greatest of all romantic poets...

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The new hit singalong of The Mark Steyn Show

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Welcome along to the fifty-ninth in our series Tales for Our Time - and our first venture into the work of Anthony Trollope, although we're a long way from Barsetshire...

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Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor...

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A third strike for vanity litigant Michael E Mann

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The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...

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