On February 4, 2026 at 2:58 pm, John Barrett wrote:
Hello Mark,
As your title asks: Why is this happening? Or specifically: Why are the elites, politicians, police, and media destroying Western Civilization? Why are they betraying us? What's in it for them if they succeed?
Best wishes to you.
On February 4, 2026 at 2:59 pm, Chris Davies wrote:
Mark,
I hope you are well.
Peter Mandelson.
Everything that is wrong with the modern political class.
A liar, a cheat, a leaker, a bounder, a cad.
Soon to be held at His Majesty's pleasure God willing.
Have I missed anything out beyond odious, repulsive, obnoxious, snake?
Keep well Mark.
On February 4, 2026 at 3:04 pm, David wrote:
Hi Mark, returning member here great to be back.
In the UK no matter how we vote the dial does not move, the march leftward surges on. Was there ever any point in voting or was it ever thus?
On February 4, 2026 at 3:06 pm, April L. wrote:
Hello, Mark!
James Delingpole's theory is interesting, but couldn't the dirtbags merely be birds of a feather? Wouldn't evil people (some say, psychopaths) be drawn together where they can wield the most power? Cause the most harm? Inflict the most pain? Consequences mean nothing to them. It's all just a good time as far as they're concerned.
Of course, they have to hold that power and that requires quiet masses. Which leads me to another question.
Did the great replacement begin with the progressive movement's education policy to make the sons as unlike their fathers as possible? Woodrow Wilson said that part loud and proud. Replace those rugged, liberty-minded individuals with something malleable, doubt-filled, weak, needy, and in just a couple of generations, suicidal. Mission just about accomplished.
On February 4, 2026 at 3:06 pm, Toby Pilling wrote:
The replacement theory is proven. Viva Espana!
On February 4, 2026 at 3:07 pm, Dave319 wrote:
Just found that you're active, and joined. Pleasure to hear your voice!
On February 4, 2026 at 3:13 pm, Rachel Aranoff wrote:
Dear Mark,
Lately I have been hearing rumors that "the elite"/Epstein sacrifice and eat children. Even Katie Hopkins posted an old clip of Roseanne talking about it. At first it seemed preposterous to me that people I have met have horrific hobbies such as getting together to torture, murder and eat children. Then I thought about the valley in Jerusalem outside the Old City where pagans sacrificed children to their god Molech.
I asked myself, if the elite did that then, why wouldn't they be doing that now? I asked myself if there are any human practices or tendencies that were around for thousands of years and then society progressed and they disappeared? Perhaps the intentional importing of primitive people into our advanced society is to make it easier for elites to fulfill their primitive desires?
On February 4, 2026 at 3:14 pm, chris kinney wrote:
Given that the Epstein files are basically confirmation of the biggest fever dreams of the most delusional neo nazis, how can we respond with giving in to the stereotypes of the nazis on the one hand, and actually clean up the mess on the other?
On February 4, 2026 at 3:15 pm, Elisa Angel wrote:
Would you say that Billie Eilish and the Grammy crowd have Auto-Tuned their opinions to snap into line with the Globalist agenda?
Speaking of Auto-Tuning, what do you think the Auto Tune technology has done to the music industry and to singers' unique voices now that it is used in most music genres and by most music producers?
On February 4, 2026 at 3:18 pm, James Laurie wrote:
Hi Mark.
I understand your not wanting to burn the Tucker Carlson bridge. But, with all due respect to your debt to Tucker for having had you on his Fox show, can you spare a mild comment on his political direction of late?
Pharaonic fan from Philly
On February 4, 2026 at 3:20 pm, Norman Fenton wrote:
Mark
On the theme of the diversity obsession, it's important to note that all of the cultural destruction stems from the cancer of universities and the long march through the institutions.
Even though I left academia no day goes by without an email from my old university telling me how I should celebrate:
Black History Month; LGBTQ+ History Month; Islamophobia Awareness month, South Asian Heritage month, International Women's Day; Trans Day of Visibility; Hijab day, Combat Islamophobia Day and many others.
Just today I got message with the subject heading "LGTBQ+ History Month event 25th February: Gender-diverse voices - Expression and Perception". It's advertising a talk, based would you believe on government funded research, whose abstract includes statements like "For cisgender men and women, vocal cues often align with their gender. In contrast, for transgender and non-binary individuals, vocal cues tend to diverge from binary vocal norms. This variability highlights the need for a more inclusive and nuanced understanding of voice gender.
I'll be speaking about this kind of nonsense at the Advance UK conference on Saturday, proposing how we've got to start with massive defunding of universities. What solution would you propose?
On February 4, 2026 at 3:23 pm, Lenny Cooperman wrote:
Hi Mark, I hope that your extended sojourn in Europe is not adversely affecting your health, both mental and physical.
My question concerns techniques of persuasion. When you encounter someone whose views are substantively, perhaps shockingly, different from yours, do you
(A) present facts to establish the superiority of your opinion or
(B) attempt to draw out the error of your interlocutors' opinions through the Socratic method of asking them a series of questions or
(C) flee from such a person in great haste? Asking for a friend.
On February 4, 2026 at 3:26 pm, The Lone Haranguer wrote:
Mark-
The suicidal illness that is infecting the West might be described by a favorite term of Roger Scruton's- Oikophobia. The impulse to vilify and undercut one's own land and culture is something I can't recall any precedent for in any History I know. Maybe it's a spoiled brat impulse spawned in a culture where people have had it too soft for too long. I can't imagine any culture in which people feel the full sting of Life that would tolerate such nonsense for a second.
Now, the question arises- what's in it for our elites? Are they genuinely infected, or merely using an excuse to grab yet more power? On a gauleiter by gauleiter basis, it might be varying ratios of both. But whatever, damn their eyes. One does feel like riding past their mansions in the night and screaming "the King is a fink!".
On February 4, 2026 at 3:30 pm, Doug222 wrote:
Hi Mark, I was born at the end of the baby boomer period. I am blamed for everything because I'm a Christian, white privileged, conservative male, boomer. Is this what my ancestors four hundred years ago fought for? Why did GOD become the enemy of what He has built to advance mankind? Thanks
On February 4, 2026 at 3:34 pm, Monsieur Fred wrote:
Greetings Mark:
"Why is this happening to us?" Because they want it to. Who is they? An alliance between, on the one hand, the Global Left, supported by China and Russia, who are hot for any idea that undermines the West - global warming, nuclear disarmament, mass Third-World migration.
On the other hand, you have the globalist plutocrats. The way you get to be a billionaire is to see things before others. When something bad happens, your first instinct is to ask "But is it bad for me? It might be horrible for you, for my country, for humanity, but is it bad for me?"
If you're a misanthropic tech billionaire who thinks the ideal global population is 500 million, mass immigration has a lot to recommend it. After all, since AI and humanoid robots will soon make labor largely unnecessary, you have two big concerns. First, all those unemployed humans you loathe will be looking to you to fund their universal basic income, and second, a great many of them might not like that arrangement and seek to visit your fortified enclave for some guillotine-flavored redistribution.
In that view, fratricidal warfare among the hoi polloi might be just the ticket. At the very least it will keep them occupied and prevent the formation of any truly threatening alliances. Your drones, sonic weapons and robot canines can handle the rest.
What say you?
On February 4, 2026 at 3:37 pm, Jamie Moore wrote:
Hello Mark, greetings from Downeast Maine. longtime listener, part time subscriber, and NH native. Ive been waiting for years to come up with a legitimate question relevant and worthy of our time together
so here it is--just exactly what is kippers and kidgery!? I have never heard such an expression in all of New England. I hope its a similar food as kipper snacks that I can enjoy while watching our tax dollars go straight to Somolia, and help with the guilt of my racist thoughts of honest fair elections.
Also know I am of the Traditional Mark Steyn folk--meaning the show must stay true toward also teaching us good music and its histories, everything should be stirred in together like a good chop suey.
On February 4, 2026 at 3:40 pm, Bill Bradshaw wrote:
Dear Mark,
The Clintons are set to testify before congress. I hope the stupid Republicans have done their homework. Bill and Hillary are expert at turning things around and coming out smelling like a rose.
Hope you're doing better. You sound great!
Thanks.
On February 4, 2026 at 3:44 pm, Paul Shanklin wrote:
Strange that the party of Social Security and Medicare are killing it off in the womb
On February 4, 2026 at 3:49 pm, Michael Regan wrote:
Hi Mark,
I was speaking with a friend who works in finance here in the US, and does some work in Europe. I asked him what he and his colleagues think of the immigration problem in Europe and how it affects business. He said it's a non issue and "doesn't move the needle". What are your thoughts on this response?
On February 4, 2026 at 3:52 pm, Fred Jones wrote:
Mark
Do hope you're stable, because we can't afford to have you unhinged!
I have said for decades that all roads to Western decline lead back to the university (and silly ideas propagated by tenured-bubbled, pin-headed theoreticians, a.k.a., college professors, particularly in the humanities).
Since WWII, the Western ideal pathway to enlightenment has been presumed to run through the ivory towers of higher "learning" (probably aided in no small part by America's GI Bill, which placed college within reach of the middle and working classes for the first time in history).
Of course, the elites have always attended these finishing schools, especially the ivy-laced campuses, so they've always had heads crammed full of unrealistic, decontextualized mush. The difference is that now the masses have jumped into the indoctrination mills of postgraduate schooling, spurred on by their elementary schools teachers and high school counselors, all telling them this was the only path to success ... when in reality they've been captured by a feminized form of intellectualism that places a premium on unjustified empathy (in a word: wokeism).
What say you, Mark? Are colleges the work of the devil or are they undermining Western Civilization all on their own?
Fred Jones
Calitopian Fantasyland
On February 4, 2026 at 3:55 pm, Scot A wrote:
Mark, thank you for doing another Q&A and I hope you are stabilizing, I do enjoy unstable Steyn columns.
My question is my often repeated question. How do the Elites think they will escape the hell they have unleashed? Will they escape to their bunkers? Evolve with trans humanism? Don't they realize the new invaders will just replace the old Elites with a new set of Elites?
Thank you for everything and be well.
On February 4, 2026 at 3:57 pm, Frank Gallenstein wrote:
Hi Mark.
I believe the answer to "Who's behind it?" is the same answer for who is behind all evil in the world - The Devil.
On February 4, 2026 at 4:00 pm, Texas Optimist wrote:
Hi Mark,
We continue to pray for your health.
To clarify how England arrived here, I would be grateful for your thoughts on this brief history of the British Empire, based on my limited reading:
- Until about mid-19th century, the Empire was built by British Christians, such as the many Bible carrying Scots-Irish who settled the Dominion of Canada.
- By the late 19th century the "liberals" had bureaucratized the Colonial and Indian Offices.
- By 1900, the Empire was already declining, with the "deep state" "selling" influence in the colonies, territories, etc., finally selling most of those lands outright after World War II.
- Since that time, the English deep state has been selling England herself to powerful foreign interests.
Is there any truth here?
Perhaps it could be said that civilizations are not murdered from without, but are sold-out from within, by the criminal networks inhabiting their own elite class.
I would suggest that the elites do not truly believe their diversity ideology, or any other, but use it only to justify their actions. Even among the foot soldiers in Minneapolis, I estimate that the majority are mercenaries, not zealots.
On February 4, 2026 at 4:02 pm, Laurence Jarvik wrote:
Do you see any connection between the Hunter Biden Laptop sex videos with child prostitutes and the Epstein files?
On February 4, 2026 at 4:04 pm, Queen of the Jungle wrote:
Greetings from the People's Republic of Nueva York, and best wishes for your health and wealth.
Regarding the question of "why is this happening", I recently came across an article by British writer Lois M. Miller about the relationship between abortion and immigration that fits in perfectly with your prognostications over the decades about demography and destiny.
According to Ms. Miller: It seems that the UK has just reached three grim milestones in 2026: (1) For the first time in modern history, the number of deaths will exceed the number of births. (2) British women will abort a third of their babies. (3) The number of foreigners living in the U.K. will match the number of aborted children since the procedure's legalization.
By ending unborn lives on an industrial scale, the native British population has created a demographic vacuum it now plugs with immigration, and in doing so, has brought itself to the brink of quiet obliteration.
Abortion is no longer just a moral issue, but one of national survival. A society cannot abort a third of its future generation and expect to remain intact. Britain is not simply declining, but aborting itself out of existence. When a culture decides children are optional, the future becomes optional too.
A nation that does not reproduce itself must import its future. The "future" that Britain is "importing" is one in which Islamic terrorists are celebrated, and native Brits get fired, harassed, or imprisoned.
Europe has chosen abortion and suicide. If America can't learn from Europe's death, America will soon die, too.
All as predicted many years ago by the Propohet (peace be upon him) Mark Steyn.
On February 4, 2026 at 4:08 pm, Cecily Routman wrote:
Hi Mark. I look forward to your Clubland Q & A every week I hope you're feeling better today. An essay at Discern Report, Europe Chooses Abortion and Suicide, includes a lot of the doomsday stats that you talk about all the time. I'm a pro-life advocate who warns about the mass baby killing that plays a huge part in the demographic changes in the West. It's a gruesome reality but if you have the strength to tackle it I'd like to hear your thoughts. Thank you and bless you.
On February 4, 2026 at 4:10 pm, Brian Bennett wrote:
Greetings once again, Mark, from sunny North Texas, where the headlines keep coming. Today, some local high school parents are angry at the Wylie Integrated School District (ISD) for a "procedural breakdown" that allowed a group going by the name of "Why Islam" to set up a booth near the Wylie East high-school entrance. Women at the booth offered copies of the Quran, hijabs and lessons for how to wear a hijab, henna tattoos, branded bags, information on Islam, and candy.
Our crack, local-media team comforted us with the peaceful words of Mustafaa Carroll from the Council on American-Islamic Relations saying the booth was informational."They don't proselytize and they don't press anybody to take anything; as long as it's student-led, that's a whole different story," said Carroll. He further said, "The outrage is that anything and everything Muslim these days has been vilified."
Wylie ISD insisted, "This situation is not about religion, politics, ideology, or any personal belief system," the district said in its letter to families. "Ultimately, this issue stems from a failure to follow established procedures. Wylie ISD will not allow outside influence or online speculation to distort facts, sow division, or damage the trust we have built with our community," the statement said.
We are grateful that Wylie ISD did not intentionally allow this incident. They were completely unaware of what was going at the high-school entrance that day. How comforting to know that it was merely a procedural breakdown. We understand why Wylie ISD wants its Islamic families to know it has no problem with Islam and its religion, politics, ideology or personal belief system. Shame on us for our outrage that the school procedures were not followed in such a peaceful incident. It's not as if the procedural breakdown led to any violent actions, and shame on us for even thinking about violence and Islam in the same thought.
For this reason, I have to vote that the answer to you question, "Why is this happening?" Is the final choice in the list, "Civilizational suicide." If Texas schools are this woke, we're doomed.
On February 4, 2026 at 4:12 pm, Jayne Tui wrote:
Hi Mark, my thoughts on the why.... I was reading the book of Daniel the other day, specifically chapter 2, and it says Nebuchadnezzar was given a dream showing the course of human history. He saw, for example, that Persian power would be superseded by the power of the Greeks. Have you read Tom Hoalland's book Persian Fire? He said no one would have put their money on the small in number, squabbling Greeks as a massive Persian army marched towards them. But by then it was already written in the Book. Later Rome came and Rome divided. Our culture derives in large part from Western Rome. However Daniel says that when you get to the feet another, totally incompatible culture has come that inevitably weakens society. I think that may be relevant to your question. Of interest, when it comes to the ten toes the comment comes in about 'mixing with the seed of men'. It sounds as though someone is trying to play with human genetics. Whoops! Of course no one would allow that! Yes the events of 2021 showed us a crazy lack of concern in humanity to protect our genetics. The fact that spike has been detected in some people after two years shows that particular foreign gene has integrated and is being expressed. Obviously I don't know whether this is from reverse transcription of the RNA or from contamination of the vials by DNA sequences derived from the E. coli plasmids they used. Nevertheless the majority of humans on this planet risked an injection of foreign genes. Although I suspect worse will be attempted, I take that Daniel statement as a promise that the worst won't be allowed to work. And the who? Well Daniel tells us we won't know the final 'who' until the great reveal but the intermediate 'whos' will be an Epstein file-like 10 in number. Sorry for the length of the comment.
On February 4, 2026 at 4:14 pm, Maggie from PA wrote:
Perhaps.it is an inevitable result of the success of capitalism. Affluence breeds...less breeding. As a result the elites felt the need to import people from wherever with no thought to where this eould lead. Or understood and didn't care.
On February 4, 2026 at 4:14 pm, Teresa Maupin wrote:
"Why? Who's behind it? George Soros? Jeffrey Epstein? The Russians? The Jews? Space aliens from Planet Zongo? Or merely a form of civilisational suicide mysteriously adopted simultaneously by the entire developed world, whether constitutional republic, constitutional monarchy or whatever?" I have no question, but thanks for the suicidal laugh!!
On February 4, 2026 at 4:19 pm, Suzanne Reny wrote:
The machine created music is akin to what Botox has done to actors and their lack of expression.
On February 4, 2026 at 4:19 pm, Todd Hynes wrote:
Hi Mark, greetings from East Tennessee, where I may have found the only remaining locale where my Big Macs are not served by the multitudinous offspring of Punjabi separatists and Somali warlords, but instead by charming Appalachian moms and cheerful sorority girls.
My question: A particular joy of mine was listening to replays of your weekly appearances on Mr Snerdley's radio program. The comfortable rapport between you both seemed to reflect an obvious friendship and connection. Do you guys keep in touch? Any plans to resurrect the appearances? They were all-too-brief but always brightened my day.
On February 4, 2026 at 4:19 pm, Elisa Angel wrote:
Who, what, when, where, why and how? What's the scuttlebutt related to the reported 30% layoff of journalists at the Washington Post?
