Welcome to the conclusion of our latest Tale for Our Time: first published in 1955, Isaac Asimov's Franchise, a speculation on presidential elections of the early twenty-first century, in "the world's first electronic democracy". In tonight's finale, it's a perfectly normal Election Day in America: The armored car purred down empty streets. They were empty even for that hour of the morning. Handley indicated that and said, 'They always shift traffic away from the line of drive ever since the attempted bombing that nearly ruined the Leverett Election of 'ninety-two.' When the car stopped, Norman was helped out by the always polite Handley into an underground drive whose walls were lined with soldiers at attention. He was led into a brightly ...

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Sixty-five years ago - September 1955 - America was reeling under one of those blockbuster Number Ones, so blockbuster indeed that it toppled "Rock Around the Clock" from the top spot. What does it take to knock off rock's first great iconic anthem? A beautiful Sinatra love ballad? A showstopping Rodgers & Hammerstein eleven o'clock number? Not a chance: To see off Bill Haley, all it takes a century old folk-song, heavy on the snare drums. And next thing you know you're blasting from every radio and jukebox...

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

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Mark offers contrasting equine forays from the streets of Copenhagen and Chicago, twilight time on Sunset Boulevard, Downton Abbey for racists, democracy in lockdown, a poem for the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, and a last dance in the ballrooms of the west...

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Mark and Tucker on Seattle's new "street czar"

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Laura Rosen Cohen on Supreme Court idolatry, transgender Peruvians, and the religion of leftism...

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Mark brings the crazy - from a pithier Pledge of Allegiance to NPR minivans, Quebec apartments to two-thirds of a billion brand new Americans. Plus a Vicwit Wanker Copperpalooza, The Hundred Years Ago Show, why YouTube is no longer MeTube, and a very necessary pick-me-up...

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Another death at the hands of this hideous fraudulent "social justice" movement

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In this video edition of The Mark Steyn Show recorded live at sea, Mark expounds on Andrew Breitbart's axiom that politics is downstream of culture with three of his compatriots from the deranged dominion...

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The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...

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Just ahead of the thirty-ninth audio adventure in our popular series Tales for Our Time, thank you for all your kind comments, still incoming, about our thirty-eighth: The Prisoner of Windsor, a summer diversion from yours truly inverting the premise of The Prisoner of Zenda. Nancy Hawkes, a Mark Steyn Clubber from Virginia, writes: I am a First Quarter Founding Member of the MSC and I don't comment often, but I couldn't keep silent about this tale. Where to begin? I save Tales for Our Time for road trips so I can listen for long stretches. The Prisoner of Windsor was amazing. I just finished it tonight. I don't know which I liked better - the rollicking, funny, sad, sobering story, or the comical, serious, heart-warming, heart-rending ...

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Kathy Shaidle looks at two famous heiresses from film...

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Steyn on Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a republic of judges.

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An anthology of some favorite Mark Steyn Show poems of recent months, matched to some appropriate musical interludes. From the Fall of Rome and of Constantinople to the joys of sleep, life's rich variety is all here...

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For this year's summer entertainment, Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor...

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Songs about statues, marching through Georgia, virus-infected felines, and taking the town of Minneapolis...

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Michael E Mann, loser, liar, scofflaw and deadbeat

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