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Things That Don't Change

As the dust settles in the smoking crater where that big Iranian mountain used to be, all the smart guys are ready to move on to the next phase...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Ain't Misbehavin'

Mark tells the story of a song that's a blast of pure joy, but emerged from an unlikely corner of history...

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Mark at the Movies

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday May 28th

Guest host Melissa Howes fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the planet...

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Shaidle at the Cinema

Pather Panchali

Upon the centenary of Satyajit Ray, we present our late friend Kathy Shaidle's take on his 1955 classic Pather Panchali...

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Steyn on Culture

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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The War on Free Speech

Mannsplaining

Steyn and Simberg respond to Mann's demand that he and his lying lawyers should not have to pay sanctions...

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Ave atque vale

Avalon with Carol Welsman and Russell Malone

Mark remembers a dear friend of the Steyn Show musical family, the guitarist Russell Malone...

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The Bachman Beat

Tal Bachman: Cancelled by Popular Demand: My Final Rugby Installment

Tal Bachman wraps up his epic series...

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Laura's Links

Mayor Zohran!

Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...

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Rick's Flicks

Death in the Afternoon: Grand Prix and the Motorsport Movie

Rick McGinnis on this year's summer blockbuster, and its motor-racing predecessors...

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