Programming note: On Thursday I'll be back on the telly with Tucker Carlson, live across America at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific, with a rerun at midnight Eastern. If you're in the presence of the receiving apparatus, I hope you'll dial us up. ~A lady on last week's Mark Steyn Club Cruise asked me how I pronounced the word "squirrel" and seemed unaccountably convulsed with hilarity when I told her. But it's not so funny out on the wild Frontier: The woman informed Frontier Airlines she was taking an "emotional support animal" on the flight from Florida when she made her reservation, according to the Associated Press. However, she did not say the animal was a squirrel. The airline said they called Orlando police after they asked the woman to ...
Today was Brett Kavanaugh's first day on the Supreme Court, following last night's ceremonial swearing-in by Kavanaugh's mentor Anthony Kennedy. The last month has certainly demonstrated the high stakes of judicial confirmation. But just why is the Court so important? And what would America's founders have to say about that? Here's what I wrote in my column back in Kennedy's marriage-redefining heyday: Since the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor, Swingin' Anthony Kennedy has been the swingingest swinger on the Supreme Court, the big Numero Cinco on all those 5–4 white-knuckle nail-biting final scores. So naturally Court observers have been paying close attention to his interventions in the Obamacare oral arguments. So far he doesn't sound ...
On Monday Mark returned to "Tucker Carlson Tonight" to discuss the colossus of the twentieth century (Clinton) and a discredited peripheral figure we should all forget about (Churchill). Click below to watch:
Programming note: I'm back on dry land and tonight, Monday, I'll be returning to "Tucker Carlson Tonight", live at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific, with a rerun at midnight Eastern. If you're in the presence of the receiving apparatus, we hope you'll dial us up. ~I am reluctant to compare myself, an impoverished Canadian showtune queen, to a billionaire president of the United States, but I will confess that, late in the Kavanaugh shenanigans, it all began to ring a vague bell with me. A decade ago, when my battles with the "human rights" commissions got going up north, I was told by wise old birds to stay calm, let the process play itself out, don't rock the boat, etc. There was one lone dissenter who told me, no, no, if you do that, you're going ...
While the Mark Steyn Club Cruise is sailing off Nova Scotia, we thought you might enjoy this extended interview with Mark's old friend and piano-playing imam Andrew Lawton on immigration north and south of the border, and indeed elsewhere:
Welcome to a brand new SteynPost in which Mark expounds on some recent examples of a phenomenon John O'Sullivan, Mrs Thatcher's former speechwriter, has been discussing on the current Mark Steyn Club Cruise: the ever more open contempt for the will of the people:
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From The Mark Steyn Club Cruise sailing down the Eastern Seaboard, welcome to the final episode of John Buchan's prescient thriller set in the hell of the Great War. Greenmantle was one of our most ambitious audio adventures, but we're also delighted to say it's proved one of our most popular. One of our newer Club members took a while to catch on, but is rapt for the final stretch...
Direct from the Mark Steyn Club Cruise at beautiful Prince Edward Island, where the gables are green but the mantles aren't, welcome to Part Nineteen of John Buchan's Great War thriller...
Direct from the St Lawrence River on the first night of the inaugural Mark Steyn Club Cruise, welcome to Episode Sixteen of our nightly audio adventure
A Mark Steyn Club video divertissement - courtesy of the students of Manchester University, who decided that Rudyard Kipling's "If..." is no longer acceptable...
with Mark and his guests Bananarama, Mike Batt, Don Black, Simon Climie, Christopher Cross, The Human League, Julio Iglesias, Lulu, Artie Shaw, Paul Simon, Jule Styne and Andy Williams (plus bonus appearance by Ted Cruz)