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Night Falls
Programming note: I'm still very poorly, but tomorrow, Wednesday, medicated to the hilt, I shall endeavour to rouse myself from my sickbed for what I assume will be a Mamdanipalooza of a Clubland Q&A. I'll be taking questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet at 3pm North American Eastern - which is is now back to its usual transatlantic airtime of 8pm Greenwich Mean Time/9pm Central European. Hope you can swing by. ~I'm old enough to remember when stand-up comedians did rape jokes. Not very good ones, but jokes nonetheless. Ricky Gervais revived this one to discuss its contemporary acceptability or otherwise on a Netflix special a few years back, but I heard it first time round on telly back in the Seventies, when no ...
Michael Mann vs Free Speech
Conservative Inc Folds
On Friday at Steyn HQ, we received an inquiry from a reporter seeking a comment on "the agreement between Mann and NRO." Unfortunately, having had no communication from our "co-defendants" National Review (NR), we had to scramble around a bit to figure out what the reporter was talking about. A different publication, The Daily Pennsylvanian, reports: Penn professor Michael Mann has reached an agreement with the National Review that releases him from paying the company's remaining legal fees from his defamation case in exchange for dropping ongoing litigation against the magazine. [UPDATE] See also this decent take in The Philadelphia Inquirer: In 2024, the case went to trial in front of a Washington, D.C., jury, and Mann won a $1 million ...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Light My Fire
Mark on an iconic progressive rock track turned easy-listening favorite...
Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: October 26-November 1
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick's Flicks
Traumatized in Tinseltown: Kirk Douglas in The Bad and the Beautiful
Vincente Minnelli's 1952 movie melodrama The Bad and the Beautiful opens with perhaps the most iconic crane shot ever shown on film...
On the Town
You Can Go as Far as You Like with Me!
On this week's episode we find ourselves in between Halloween and Bonfire Night, Daylight Savings Time and Greenwich Mean Time. Plus a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones down the decades, and a Pakistani postscript...
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A Crown Fit for a Leader
In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday October 29th
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members live around the planet...
Topical Take
Build Back Better
In Obama's world, businessmen build nothing, whereas government are the hardest hard-hats on the planet...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Time on My Hands
Mark and Larry Adler on an enduring song from an almighty flop...
On the Town
Strictly USA! (plus Slovenia)
On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we mark the spectacular last act of Al Jolson's long career, including a word from his godson and our first venture into the world of suspended animation. Plus our Sinatra Sextet...
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Enablers of Evil
Today's episode was filmed live on the Mark Steyn Iberian Cruise with three of our special guests: Sammy Woodhouse, Samantha Smith and Allison Pearson...
A Clubman's Notes
"Une Maîtresse femme"
Our autumnal Tale for Our Time, and the seventy-fourth of our Steyn Club audio adventures, is Mark's serialisation of The Murder on the Links, Agatha Christie's second Hercule Poirot outing, from 1923. Here is episode five...
A Clubman's Notes
Return of the Tantalus
Here we go with Part Four of our brand new Tale for Our Time - our autumnal adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic of 1923, The Murder on the Links...
A Clubman's Notes
Too Late!
Welcome to the latest in our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time, and Part Three of our serialisation of The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie...
A Clubman's Notes
Eurabian Night
Welcome to Part Nine in our new audio adaptation of a favourite book among SteynOnline readers: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...
A Clubman's Notes
A Small Suitcase and a Taxi to Victoria
Welcome to Part Two of The Murder on the Links, our autumnal audio adventure in Tales for Our Time...
A Clubman's Notes
The Girl on the Train
Welcome along to the seventy-fourth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and to our third offering from the world's bestselling novelist: The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie...
A Clubman's Notes
Moral Health
Welcome to Part Eight in Mark's first ever self-narration of this highly prescient tome...
A Clubman's Notes
Men Are from Venus
Welcome to Part Seven in our new audio adaptation of a favourite book among SteynOnline readers: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It.
A Clubman's Notes
Les feuilles mortes
Welcome to Part Six in our new audio adaptation of a favourite book among Steyn readers: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...
A Clubman's Notes
Demography vs Delusion
Welcome to Part Five in our new audio adaptation of America Alone. In this week's episode, we start by surveying the demographic scene worldwide...
A Clubman's Notes
The Seventh Age
Here we go with Part Four of our new audio adaptation of a favourite book among Steyn readers: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...
A Clubman's Notes
The Coming of Age
Welcome to Part Three of Mark's boffo bestseller on demography and its discontents...
A Clubman's Notes
An End to the Old Ennui
Welcome to Part Two of Mark's new audio serialisation of his 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...
On the Town
Tigers at Night
Mark celebrates the centennial of a great songwriter - Herbert Kretzmer, best known to millions of theatregoers around the world as the lyricist of Les Misérables...
Steyn's Song of the Week
There's A Kind of Hush (All Over the World) with Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits
A live Song of the Week with the irrepressible Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits and a great pop song by Les Reed and Geoff Stephens...
A Clubman's Notes
An Unwanted Intrusion at Victoria
Welcome to the conclusion of our seventy-third Tale for Our Time: The Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle...
A Clubman's Notes
The Napoleon of Crime
Welcome to the seventy-third audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time...
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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