Hi everyone and welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links. I know that the big news of the week is the Mamdani win of the New York City mayoral race. I'm alternating between feeling pretty disgusted by it, but also kind of bored by it. Like I said last week, if you can't summon a better candidate out of a population of millions and millions, if nobody steps up, then you get what you vote for and/or didn't show up for. If you really want to hear more about it, you can get Mark's take here from yesterday's Q&A and from his piece "Grim Morning After". Both should sufficiently depress you even before you get to the meat of my own column. Basically, this post on X kind of sums up where I'm at with New York City: "24 years after 9/11 and ...
In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here is the action replay...
Mark fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet...
Rich Lowry and National Review throw in the towel...
Mark on an iconic progressive rock track turned easy-listening favorite...
Vincente Minnelli's 1952 movie melodrama The Bad and the Beautiful opens with perhaps the most iconic crane shot ever shown on film...
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...
In Obama's world, businessmen build nothing, whereas government are the hardest hard-hats on the planet...
Mark and Larry Adler on an enduring song from an almighty flop...
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...
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...
Welcome to Part Six of our autumnal entertainment: The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Welcome to Part Two of The Murder on the Links, our autumnal audio adventure in Tales for Our Time...
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...
Welcome to Part Eight in Mark's first ever self-narration of this highly prescient tome...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Welcome to Part Three of Mark's boffo bestseller on demography and its discontents...
Welcome to Part Two of Mark's new audio serialisation of his bestseller America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...
Part One of Mark's audio adaptation of his demographic blockbuster...
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...
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...