Happy Labor Day/Labour Day weekend to all our American and Canadian readers. We will have a Mark Steyn Club video bonus for you later this morning in which Mark discusses and reads Rudyard Kipling's great poem "If". We hope you'll tune in - because, as Steyn always says, video poetry is where the big bucks are. And don't forget, our Sunday Poem is one of many SteynOnline features we'll be doing live and on sea as part of our inaugural Steyn cruise at the end of this month. More details below.
Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark:
~The week began with what Steyn called an "odd couple of the obituary column": John McCain and Neil Simon. He also marked the centenary of a blockbuster lyricist, Alan Jay Lerner, with one of his earliest standards: "Almost Like Being in Love."
~On Monday Mark joined Tucker Carlson to discuss prominent Democrats' need to "annul reality". Click below to watch:
~On Tuesday Mark hosted another Clubland Q&A, taking questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet. Listeners lobbed a few hairballs on the whereabouts of Mark's beard and the beleaguered waxologists from British Columbia, but they also found time to get to democracy, diversity and Deep State doings. To hear the full show, click here.
Clubland Q&A is made with the support of members of The Mark Steyn Club, for which we are profoundly grateful. For more on the Club, see below.
~On Wednesday Mark's column revisited the competing theses of Francis Fukuyama and Samuel Huntington in "Danes, Davos and Denial": It was our most-read piece of the week.
~On Thursday's edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Steyn addressed the media reaction to that morning's Trump twitterstorm.
~Friday was a busy TV day for Mark. He guest-co-hosted (or co-guest-hosted) "The Five" and then joined Martha MacCallum to chew over NBC's enabling of Harvey Weinstein's sex assaults and the US/Canada trade negotiations.
~On Saturday Steyn started the day with a wide-ranging appearance on "Fox & Friends", and marked the Labor Day weekend with the ultimate laborers - Antz.
Much of our content at SteynOnline this last year has been funded by members of The Mark Steyn Club. Don't worry, none of our regular features are being paywalled or anything like that, but we are providing Club members with a few extras, such as our Sunday Poem, Tales for Our Time, participation in our Clubland Q&As, and the opportunity to sail with Mark on the inaugural Mark Steyn Club Cruise from Montreal to Boston at the end of this month at the height of foliage season. Join Steyn and his doughty crew Michele Bachmann, John O'Sullivan, Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, along with special musical guest Tal Bachman. We'll be doing all our regular SteynOnline features - The Mark Steyn Show, Song of the Week, Tales for Our Time - but live and on water. You can find more details on the Cruise here. (If you're thinking of coming, don't leave it too late, as the price is more favorable the earlier you book.)
You can find more details about The Mark Steyn Club here. And don't forget our Steyn Club Gift Membership (not to be confused with our SteynOnline gift certificates).
In legal news, CRTV continue to deny that they've lost their suit against Steyn and to refuse to pay up and move on. For those interested, we've provided a handy guide to CRTV deadbeat Cary Katz's multiple lawsuits against Mark. We will update this page as the sleazy Katz adds to his swelling number of cases against Steyn.
A new week at SteynOnline begins later this morning with a brand new Sunday Poem and continues tonight with our Song of the Week.
