Happy Columbus Day weekend to all our American readers, and Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian readers. We have a Mark Steyn Club video bonus for you this Sunday morning - Mark discusses and reads Kipling's great poem Recessional.
Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Steyn:
~The week began with what President Trump would call "the calm before the storm" - Paul Sorvino singing live one of the best-loved songs on the planet on a special video edition of Mark's Song of the Week. Click below to watch:
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~A few hours after our Song of the Week, a wealthy retired accountant smashed the windows of his hotel suite and opened fire on the crowd below. Mark gave his initial reaction in "Slaughter on the Strip", and would have more to say as the story behind the bloodbath became known.
~On Monday night Steyn was in Minneapolis for an evening at the Guthrie Theatre for the Center of the American Experiment. Scott Johnson's account is here - and Mark reprised a favorite moment from his 2014 appearance in the city here.
~On Tuesday Steyn considered the man behind the Las Vegas attack in what would become our most-read piece of the week. He returned to the subject for his midweek appearance with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, following a remarkable press conference by the Clark County sheriff. Click below to watch:
~The other big story of the week was the constitutional showdown in Europe between the Spanish government and secession-minded Catalans. On Wednesday Mark analyzed the referendum, and the broader trend, in "Go Big or Go Home".
~The Anglosphere's abandonment of individual liberty for identity politics accelerated throughout the week. On Thursday Steyn addressed three all too typical news stories from within Her Majesty's Dominions - Britain, Canada and Australia.
~On Friday Mark started the day on the curvy couch at "Fox & Friends", discussing the latest developments in the Vegas killings, and the Democrat-media push for gun control. Click below to watch:
~On Saturday Steyn began the weekend with a couple of cultural footnotes to the week's events. For our weekend movie date, he marked the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Kazuo Ishiguro with the film adaptation of Ishiguro's best known novel, The Remains of the Day.
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A new week at SteynOnline begins this evening with our Song of the Week.
