On yesterday's Clubland Q&A we had some discussion on when precisely "the day everything changed" changed back to the same old dopiness and civilisational suicide. As I think of it, the signs that the war would ultimately be lost were visible very early on...
If you missed our Clubland Q&A live, here's the action replay...
Mark is back and fielding questions from Mark Steyn Club members...
Part IX of Tal Bachman's ongoing series on the art of translation...
Happy Labor Day/Happy Labour Day to our American and Canadian listeners respectively...
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick McGinnis reviews a classic western from 1960...
America picking a fight with the maple-dripping wimps over whether they're too like the Euro-weenies is like a street tough getting into a brawl with the assistant choreographer of La Cage aux Folles and a trainee hair stylist from What Not to Wear...
After offering a Supreme Court justice a bribe to step down from the court, Michael E Mann is now calling for a "hostile takeover of the Court"...
In advance of the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11, the confession of its self-proclaimed mastermind has been thrown overboard...
If your object is to save the west, then the public discourse is nowhere near where it needs to be...
The rhetoric may change, but the self-bollocksing of American warmongering does not...
Since emerging from my coma, I have endeavoured to follow my doctors' advice to eschew stress-inducing things like the Internet and spend more time in serene contemplation of the birds and flowers. However, once in a while friends will insist on drawing things to my attention...
Part One of Mark's audio adaptation of his demographic blockbuster...
Twenty years ago this month - January 2006 - The Wall Street Journal and The New Criterion published the first draft of what would become the thesis of my bestselling book, America Alone...
As readers may recall, in recent years, after announcing a rare bit of activity from yours truly, I have generally observed that I am engaging in such against the advice of my doctors. So it was that I spent over a month in Ukraine, venturing hither and yon and trying to stay one step ahead of the bombs and drones...
Even before the dispiriting observances of the coming week, it's hard to recall the visceral emotion that in those first weeks and months after September 11th engaged almost every area of American life. With one striking exception, that is...
Welcome to another edition of Mark Steyn on the Town. On this week's show Mark presents a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones down the decades and around the world, and a highlight from the necrophiliac songbook - all sung by a wide array of musical talents from Elton John and Dinah Shore to Allan Sherman and Peter Falk.
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What's the connection between Whitney Houston and Saddam Hussein?
On this week's show Mark plays the Summery Sinatra and adds a postscript to his centennial celebrations of the lyricist Carolyn Leigh. Plus: When Cary Grant eats your lunch...
Welcome to a special edition of Mark Steyn on the Town in which Mark celebrates the centenary of one of his favourite songwriters: Carolyn Leigh, lyricist of "Young at Heart", "Witchcraft", "The Best Is Yet to Come" and many more...
In this episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we mark the centennials of two stars from the Golden Age of Italian-American singers, Tony Bennett and Buddy Greco - and, of course, a third such is present for our Sinatra Summer Stock, with a peerless group of songs from a somewhat improbable source...
I love the Great American Train Song. It's a genre that has the sweep and size of the nation...
Mark starts with a vaguely French bicycling song and ends with the showbizzy side of Mary Hopkin in this brand new episode of Mark Steyn on the Town...
In this brand new episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, Mark greets August with some appropriate numbers, and considers different songs with the same title a half-century apart...
Welcome to the conclusion of our eightieth Tale for Our Time: My Kinsman, Major Molineux, an allegory of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Hawthorne...
In this penultimate episode, young Robin thinks he has finally found his eminent cousin...
Welcome to the eightieth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time: a special selection for America's semiquincentennial...
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...