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Mark Steyn
December 7, 2025
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Beyond The Mark Steyn Show:
Columns, poems, tales, music, movies and more from Mark and friends

Steyn's Song of the Week

(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know

If you enjoy Steyn's Song of the Week at SteynOnline and on Serenade Radio, please note that there will be a live stage edition during the 2026 Mark Steyn Cruise - along with many other favourite features from SteynOnline and The Mark Steyn Show. More details here. ~If you missed Mark's Song of the Week last Sunday on Serenade Radio, here's a chance to hear it at SteynOnline. The composer Philip Springer is five months away from his hundredth birthday. In this episode, he joins Steyn to discuss his second most-recorded song - we'll hear the first at the top of the show, because it's that time of year. But Mark has always preferred the runner-up, and Phil gladly acknowledges the debt he owes tune-wise to Georges Bizet - and a rare musical ...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Potemkin Church

Programming note: please join Mark later today at SteynOnline for a brand new audio edition of Steyn's Song of the Week. ~Welcome to Part Fourteen in our ongoing audio adaptation of a favourite book among SteynOnline readers: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. In the run-up to its twentieth sodding anniversary, it remains as relevant as ever: Trump administration warns Europe of 'civilisational decline' in new national security strategy You don't say! The Trump administration has released a new National Security Strategy for the United States in which it describes Europe as a continent in decline, warns that European nations are facing "civilisational erasure" because of migration and proposes to "cultivate resistance to ...

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Mark's Week in Review

A Se'nnight of Steyn: November 30-December 6

In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...

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Rick's Flicks

The Bank Dick: W.C. Fields Forever?

Rick McGinnis is back with a review of The Bank Dick with W.C. Fields...

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On the Town

The Wham of Sam

Programming note: Tomorrow, Sunday, I'll be here with Part Fourteen of the new audio serialisation of my highly prescient demographic bestseller, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. ~On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we mark the centenary of Sammy Davis Jr, with help from a few of his pallies. Plus a big finish - and a big Finnish. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Thank you for your kind comments about last week's show. Anne Kearney, a First Month Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club, says: Where to begin? I'm just finishing a bio of Nelson Riddle and Frank comes off as a bit of a jerk. Toward Nelson, anyway. What an ego. But of course, you'd have to have it to be one of the ...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Minneapolis, Twinned with Rotherham

The malign alliance between gang-rapists and officialdom...

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Laura's Links

What Do You Want On Your Tombstone?

Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Saying It Out Loud

In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...

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Clubland Q&A

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday December 3rd

Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the world...

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The Mark Steyn Show

Erin Go Judenrein

Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer on the Irish and the Jews...

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Politics & Current Affairs

The Final Phase

When the future shows up earlier than expected...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Loch Lomond

To all our Scottish readers, a Happy St Andrew's Day. A decade or so back - during the independence referendum - this song figured in a lot of glib headlines: "Will Scotland take the high road?" Etc. That testifies to its enduring familiarity, even in a wholly transformed Caledonia...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Post-Christian West

Welcome to Part Thirteen in our ongoing audio adaptation of a favourite book among SteynOnline readers: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, in the run-up to its twentieth sod-bollocking anniversary...

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On the Town

That Great Baritone from the Met

On this week's episode Steyn remembers the great Italian singer Ornella Vanoni, and wishes a happy seventy-fifth birthday to Guys and Dolls...

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Politics & Current Affairs

The Great Betrayal

On a day to give thanks for all the blessings of America, it fell to Gary Beckstrom to announce to the world the death of his twenty-year-old daughter, Sarah...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Non-Visible Minority

Welcome to Part Twelve in our ongoing audio adaptation of a favourite book among Steyn readers: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, in the run-up to its twentieth anniversary...

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The Anything They'll Believe In

Welcome to Part Eleven in our ongoing audio adaptation of a favourite book among Steyn readers: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, in the run-up to its twentieth anniversary...

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Global Take-Out

Welcome to Part Ten of America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...

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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...

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Moral Health

Welcome to Part Eight in Mark's first ever self-narration of this highly prescient tome...

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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.

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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...

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Demography vs Delusion

Welcome to Part Five in our new audio adaptation of America Alone...

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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...

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The Coming of Age

Welcome to Part Three of Mark's boffo bestseller on demography and its discontents...

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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...

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The End of the World, Twenty Years On

Part One of Mark's audio adaptation of his demographic blockbuster...

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Michael Mann vs Free Speech

Conservative Inc Folds

Rich Lowry and National Review throw in the towel...

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The Mark Steyn Show

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...

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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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A Clubman's Notes

The Ten-Cent Store in Albuquerque

Welcome to the conclusion of our seventy-fifth Tale for Our Time: Christmas by Injunction by O Henry. In tonight's episode, in pursuit of some Yuletide urchins to add festive cheer to a childless mining town, Trinidad and the Judge have finally found a likely recruit: On the steps of the eating house they found a thin and glowering boy of ten smoking a cigarette. The dining-room had been left in chaos by the peripatetic appetites. A youngish woman reclined, exhausted, in a chair. Her face wore sharp lines of worry. She had once possessed a certain style of beauty that would never wholly leave her and would never wholly return. Trinidad set forth his mission. "I'd count it a mercy if you'd take Bobby for a while," she said, wearily. "I'm ...

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A Clubman's Notes

A Smiling Loser

Welcome to the seventy-fifth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time...

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As Ye Give, So Shall Ye Receive

Mark reads one of the most famous of all American short stories - and, in fact, a perfectly constructed tale...

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A Magnificent Mantelpiece

Welcome to the conclusion of our seventy-fourth Tale for Our Time: The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie...

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A Friendly Push

The penultimate episode of The Murder on the Links, Agatha Christie's whodunnit of 1923...

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An Unsatisfactory Dénouement

Welcome to Part Twenty-Six of the latest audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time: Agatha Christie's Murder on the Links...

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"I speak to you, not as a man, but as Justice..."

n tonight's episode, our present Tale proceeds toward its grand dénouement - with the accused in court for a grilling by the examining magistrate...

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Toqué!

In Part Twenty-Four of The Murder on the Links, Poirot and Hastings are in Saint-Omer, because it is the nearest sub-prefecture and thus where the accused is being held...

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The Enemy, but No False Beard

In tonight's episode of The Murder on the Links, Hercule Poirot does not seem to be taking entirely seriously the bleak reality that he and Captain Hastings are now on opposite sides of the case...

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Fashionable Men in Greenish Evening Dress

In tonight's episode of The Murder on the Links, Poirot and Hastings stumble through the fog and emerge to find themselves at the Palace in Coventry...

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Poirot Tries to Look Modest

In Episode Twenty-One, Hercule Poirot concludes his explanation of what's been going on...

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How Long Do You Wear Your Overcoat?

In Episode Twenty, Poirot and Hastings consider the cut of one's overcoat...

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An Apache - or What You Will

Part Nineteen of Mark's audio adaptation of The Murder on the Links...

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Lady and the Tramp

In Episode Eighteen, Marthe Daubreil advances a tentative identification of the second body...

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Madame Without a Motive

Episode Seventeen of Mark's serialisation of The Murder on the Links...

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A Singular Charm of Manner

In episode sixteen, we learn that, during his time in Paris, Hercule Poirot has been re-acquainting himself with a once famous murder case...

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Easy Does It

In part fifteen, the detective's loyal sidekick arrives at the railway station to find the little Belgian has solved the case - until Hastings informs him that there is now a second body...

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The Body Count Rises

In episode fourteen, Captain Hastings examines the latest victim...

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Cherchez la femme

In part thirteen of Mrs Christie's Hercule Poirot outing, Captain Hastings finds his vivacious music-hall acrobat somewhat elusive...

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Slowly I Turned...

Welcome to Episode Twelve of The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie...

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"But I Am Not Dead Yet!"

In this our ninth season, welcome to the latest episode of our current Tale for Our Time - The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie...

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The Man from Canada

Welcome to Part Ten of our current Tale for Our Time - Agatha Christie's detective yarn The Murder on the Links...

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The Gay Boy on the Beach

Welcome to Part Nine of Agatha Christie's third very popular contribution to Tales for Our Time...

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"Resting" at Watering-Places

Welcome to Part Eight of The Murder on the Links...

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Footprints Among the Geraniums

Welcome to Part Seven of our seventy-fourth audio entertainment in Tales for Our Time...

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The Golf Corpse

Welcome to Part Six of our autumnal entertainment: The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie...

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"Une Maîtresse femme"

Here is part five of Mark's serialisation of The Murder on the Links.

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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...

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Too Late!

Welcome to Part Three of our serialisation of The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie...

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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...

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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...

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