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Clubland Q&A
Live Around The Planet Wednesday July 8th
After a nail-biting trip across Ukraine dodging drones and the occasional army recruiter followed by a sudden medical emergency that landed Mark in a coma, we are pleased to announce that Mark is "back from the dead" and behind the Clubland Q&A microphone today. The fun starts at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm in the British Isles and 9pm in western and central Europe. If you'd like to ask a question of Mark, please log in using your Mark Steyn Club credentials and submit your question - short, to the point and in the form of a question, please!- just as you would a comment in the comment section below. At the appointed hour, an audio player will appear here. Simply click on the arrow, sit back and enjoy! Anyone can listen but ...
The Bachman Beat
On the Art of Translation: A Personal Introduction
Programming Note: Mark will be hosting Live Around the Planet tomorrow (Wednesday, July 8), so get your questions ready. The whole team at Steyn HQ is grateful to Tal and Laura for hosting these past few weeks. Tal remains on standby as Mark continues to recover and in the meantime, today, Tal launches his new series on the art of translation. A few positive SteynOnline comments on my last article was all the encouragement I needed to start up a new series on the art of translation. As I thought about where to start, I remembered one little moment in particular. My petite, high-energy Japanese wife - Koko, the Atomic Chipmunk - and I were traveling by taxi one balmy afternoon outside Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Spanish being my second ...
Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: June 28-July 4
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick's Flicks
Lost Causes: Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln
When Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865 the Civil War was nearly over. After recalling the circumstances of his first inaugural address, given precisely four years earlier and just before the nation fell into civil war, he told the crowd with characteristic understatement that "the progress of our arms...is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all." After the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation two years previous and the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment outlawing slavery by the House of Representatives just two months earlier, he observed to the crowd outside the East Portico of the Capitol Building that neither side fighting ...
The Bachman Beat
The Full Homer
Okay, let's wrap this up. First, my two cents about Homeric literary journeys: If we're going to read Homer, we ought to read him right. Get the full Homer experience. That first means reading an excellent translation. It also means learning the backstory before diving in. It might mean taking things a bit slower than usual, and consulting the odd commentary or podcast. That's a bit more intellectual effort, but then, the rewards will be far greater. What rewards, exactly? The rewards of broadening and deepening one's soul. Of living, feeling, seeing, time-traveling to, vicariously moving within, a much different culture, in a much different time, bound by much different senses of justice, honor, duty, right, than our own. Of - as Homer ...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
State of the Republic
In case you missed our Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
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...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
The Great Satan
In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
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 ...
A Clubman's Notes
The Benighted Traveler
To all our American readers, a Happy Semiquincentennial! Our birthday observances include a musical cavalcade down a quarter-millennium and a hymn to beauty. To round out the weekend, 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. We are in our ninth season, and 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. For America's semiquincentennial weekend, welcome to a meditation on the theme by Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter and much else...
On the Town
Lucky Fellows Wondrous Free
Happy 250th birthday to our American listeners - notwithstanding the Supreme Court's decision to mark the occasion by rendering US citizenship worthless and thereby nullifying American nationhood. Still, there will be time enough to raze the courthouse after the holiday weekend, so we hope listeners will enjoy today's lighter hearted observance of the 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...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Happy Birthday to You
There's really only one song with which we could celebrate The Mark Steyn Club's ninth anniversary...
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...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Begin the Beguine
Mark in conversation with Artie Shaw and Julio Iglesias on a Cole Porter classic...
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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