Seasons of SteynWhat Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
Here's a final seasonal song for 2020 with Mark and his special guests Carol Welsman and Russell Malone... Boxing Day with Mark and Friends
Happy Boxing Day around the British Commonwealth, Happy St Stephen's Day in Europe, and Happy Saturday In America... The Bounty Hounters
The post-Christmas sales frenzy is upon us. Well, no, it's not - because most of the world is in lockdown. So Steyn looks back on a lost era... Happy Christmas Bank Holiday Thursday!
In Britain and Europe Christmas isn't just for Christmas, it's a holiday that lasts halfway to Valentine's Day... The Day after Labor
A world without work Happy Mother's Day!
Mark celebrates the lugubrious heyday of the mother song Cry God for Speccie, England and St George!
Mark on Englishness, Britishness, and a landmark issue for the world's oldest continuously-publlshed English-language magazine Remembrance and Appropriation
Some of Europe's best photo-ops are Jewish The Bug's a-Comin'
Mark looks back at some consequential turns of the calendar Christmas Day with Mark and Friends
A Lesson from Luke
This is a column we still get a lot of requests for this time of year - written sixteen Christmases ago... A Kwanzaa Carol
There have been many parodies of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol over the last century and a half. Here's Mark's... A Thanksgiving Sampler
Happy Thanksgiving to all our American readers Steyn in for Tucker on Black Friday!
Mark on the Hong Kong protests - and the climate "activists" If Ye Break Faith With Us...
Steyn on war and remembrance, poetry and poppies The Language of Losing
Yet another feeble and evasive 9/11 anniversary Happy Dominion Day!
Happy Father's Day!
The great anthem of impending fatherhood June 6th 1944
Memorial Day in New Hampshire
Mark ropes in the real talent in the family Lighting Out for the Territory
Earth Hour descends once more Vortex of Fear
Mark reads "To Build a Fire" by Jack London - a chilling tale, and one of the greatest and yet simplest in all of literature A Valensteyn Special
Music, food, poetry and love on a Valentine's Day edition of The Mark Steyn Show Happy Australia Day!
Songs, speeches, and new balls The State of the State of the Union
Ersatz monarchism does not become a republic Steyn Goes Full Humbug
Welcome to Christmas Eve at SteynOnline, and an encore presentation of our classic Yuletide Tale for Our Time: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens... The War That Made the World We Live In
The long shadows of the Great War Halloween Horrors
Happy Halloween. We have many spooky delights for you this All-Hallows Eve, including my favorite vampire and a bewitching song, plus some truly terrifying audio. But, aside from the usual horrors, I thought we'd offer something a little different... America The Beautiful
For Independence Day, Katharine Lee Bates' hymn to nature, modernity, and the American spirit Hillary on Parade
A Happy St Patrick's Day to all our Irish readers at home and abroad... Happy Australia Day!
Mark celebrates Australia's national holiday (even if St Kilda doesn't) War and Remembrance
The first November 11th after September 11th An Ambivalent Anniversary
At noon on this day in 1867, the British North America Act came into effect and the Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada were united into the new Dominion of Canada... The Advantage of Knowing What People Really Think
For Flag Day, some Steyn thoughts on pennants and punishment Boxing Day Is Here
Mark mellows out with Russell Malone and a final selection from this year's Mark Steyn Christmas Show: A Gift for Christmas ...and the Year to Come
You don't have to brave the malls for the big Steyn gift this year... Happy Halloween!
Tonight is All Hallows' Eve. To mark the occasion, we have a truly horrific sight: the Halloweiner. Almost as scary to at least a few New Yorkers must have been this billboard of me and fellow CRTV hosts Michelle Malkin and Mark Levin looming over Times Square today... The Language of Love
Happy Valentine's Day, a day on which we anglophones struggle under one of the worst burdens in a world which has otherwise blessed us: the word "love." The French for "love" is amour, which rhymes with dozens of other useful words - toujours (always), jour (day), carrefour (crossroads), tambour (drum)... So the romantically inclined Québécois lyricist can slough off a love ballad in minutes: Darling, you're my amour Not just today but toujours I know from that very first jour When I saw you at the carrefour And my heart beat like a tambour... Truly, French is the language of love. By contrast, the romantically inclined Manitoban lyricist is stymied at every turn. English has just four and a half rhymes for "love," approximately ... The State of the State of the Union
Well, it's that time of year again - the State of the Union! Here are my traditional thoughts on the occasion - after which we'll deal with the peculiar circumstances of tonight's festivities... What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
Happy New Year with one of Mark's favorite songs for the season A Three-Hundred-and-Sixty-Se'nnight of Steyn, 2015
In case you missed it, here's how the last year looked to Mark New Year at the Movies
Steyn's pick of Auld Lang Synema Christmas at SteynOnline
A cornucopia of Yuletide delights from the Santa Steyn grotto - carols and lessons, movies and memories... The Reverend Harold Pinter's Christmas Sermon
Is Santa a CIA stooge with a false beard? Have Yourself a Feline Groovy Christmas
I'd like to think that at least some of the folks trampling li'l ol' ladies into the dust at shopping malls this Black Friday will be stampeding for my new cat album... Fourteen Years On
Mark looks back on a dispiriting anniversary The Spirit of Independence
To all our American readers, Happy Independence Day! "To man a trench and live among the lice..."
The centenary of one of the worst disasters in British imperial history Happy Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day! I've been out and about promoting the official Earth Day release of the new paperback Climate Change: The Facts... A Presidential Medley
Happy Presidents Day to all our American readers. In honor of the false equivalence of this newish holiday, here's an encore presentation of an audio special we first aired six years ago way back at the dawn of the Obama era, featuring 44 songs for 44 presidents... Happy Australia Day!
Even in the Lucky Country, the battle for freedom of expression is not going as well as it might... This Date in History
Happy New Year, with a piece we get a lot of requests for Have Yourself an Undocumented Christmas
I'd like to think that at least some of the folks trampling li'l ol' ladies into the dust at shopping malls up and down the land will be stampeding for my new book.... Cat Scratch Fever
A Man Alone
The perils of the ideologically unsound joke Auld Lang Steyn
A Happy New Year to you and yours from all of us at SteynOnline Christmas Day 2012
Wherever you are around the world this December 25th, from New Hampshire to New South Wales, Quebec City to Kuala Lumpur, we wish you the merriest with a cornucopia of Yuletide delights from the Santa Steyn grotto Happy Thanksgiving ...and Happy Birthday!
Happy Thanksgiving to all our American readers - and Happy Birthday to us... Talking Turkey
Mark profiles the big bird SIXTEEN TONS
A Song for the Season by Merle Travis Happy Labor Day, or Labour Day, according to taste. We'll be back with a Song of the Week bonus audio edition later this week, but in the meantime here's labor lyricized at the lower end of the register in a great Merle Travis song. This essay is anthologized in A Song For The Season: I was born one mornin' and the sun didn't shine I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine I loaded 16 tons of number nine coal And the straw boss said, 'Well bless my soul!' For Labor Day, we need a song about labor – not just about work, a job, but a song you can feel the sweat and ache in. You can find plenty of working-nine-to-five-what-a-way-to-make-a-living numbers but not a lot in which you can feel the ... ![]() |
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