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Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: May 24-30
We are happy to share that Mark is doing much better. We will continue to update the SteynOnline community as we receive news. But in the meantime, we wanted to share some of the memories and comments shared with us based on this week's columns: In the 1960's, my Dad worked for an electronics design firm creating antennas for space flight. I'd hang around reading the next "Aviation Week and Space Technology" which covered all things both civilian and military. Each one was thick and packed with all sorts of technology. Since then, the magazine has thinned. – Robert Bridges, The (New But) Lost Frontier Mark can take the most, simple of stories and open up its universe of meanings and histories like no one else. I always love the little ...
Rick's Flicks
Prophets of Doom: Liza Minnelli in Bob Fosse's Cabaret
Bob Fosse's career as a Hollywood director looked to be over after just one film when the failure of Sweet Charity at the box office nearly took down Universal Studios in 1969 and ended the era of the big-budget movie musical. He'd always have work on Broadway but his new status as toxic in Hollywood was a blow his ego couldn't accept and he was desperate for a comeback. The abiding fame of numbers like "Hey Big Spender" and "Rich Man's Frug" on Fosse highlight reels and as YouTube clips have lent Sweet Charity posthumous influence that nobody would have believed at the time. Fosse's problem, as far as his critics (and even some of his friends) were concerned was that he put far more effort into his musical numbers than whatever strung ...
Laura's Links
A Change in Schedule
Hello once again and welcome to a special Wednesday edition of Laura's Links. Keep reading to get the latest schedule for this week at SteynOnline! While Mark continues to rest and recuperate, we here at Steyn HQ are doing a little bit of shuffling of the schedule. Obviously, none of us can fill the Great Prophet's shoes, and we know everyone misses him terribly, but we are taking very good care of SteynOnline and want you to know that there will be some new and exciting things happening here over the coming days. So please take this as your official heads up that later this week we will have an honored, familiar face joining us with a stellar column on a matter of culture. And then next week, we will introduce you to a brand new guest ...
Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: May 17-23
Thank you for your many kind messages regarding Mark's health. We have been able to share some of them with him - which has really lifted his spirits. He has made tremendous progress this week and looks forward to being back as soon as possible. I hope Mark is actually just recharging his batteries anonymously on some tropical island, like James Bond in Skyfall, having completed his mission From Ukraine With Love, and will make his return to save the day. – (Appropriately signed) M Thanks Mark, it can't be easy being the guy pointing out the emperor has got no clothes on all the time. I'm truly grateful for all of your work, long may it continue. Wishing you a speedy recovery. – Stuart A. I'm in Budapest this week. If Mark is in hospital ...
A Clubman's Notes
The Sick Bed
Steyn reads the concluding episode of his highly prescient bestseller America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It...
Friday Notebook
A Monster and his Suck-Ups
As the USS Nimitz heads to the Caribbean, we share Mark's "obituary" to Fidel Castro...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Live Around the Planet (Literally)
If you weren't able to listen to Clubland Q&A live, don't worry, here is the action replay...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday, May 20th
Laura Rosen Cohen fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members...
Topical Take
A Society Entirely Without "Division"
The groupthink in our public discourse is so pervasive it goes as unnoticed as the air...
Politics & Current Affairs
Decapitation for Thee ...and for Me
Programming note: On May 6th 2017 The Mark Steyn Club slipped quietly onto the Internet, and, unlike many of the noisier online launches of the era, we're still here nine years later. We thank (almost) all our First Week Founding Members for re-upping for a tenth year, and we hope our First Fortnight members will want to do the same as this first week of our new season draws to a close...
Topical Take
The Perfect Euro-Metaphor
The Eurovision Song Contest doesn't get a lot of attention in the United States, but years before the euro came along, it was the prototype pan-European institution...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
The Great Satan
In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
Politics & Current Affairs
Choosing Their Words
If you're wondering what the US Secret Service do when they're not letting you sprint through the security checkpoint, well...
Politics & Current Affairs
The Strait Jacket
"Wars the world has lost interest in" is paradoxically a subject of great interest to me...
A Clubman's Notes
Their Mindset - and Ours
This week's episode in Steyn's ongoing audio adaptation of America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...
Politics & Current Affairs
Let Me Show You to Your Room
Distance lends a smidgeonette of enhanced perspective...
A Clubman's Notes
Oops! He Did It Again
Washington is ever more like Churchill's riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma...
Politics & Current Affairs
The Secret Service Makes Me Nervous
Steyn on yet another Trump assassination attempt...
Politics & Current Affairs
The Crossroads of Europe
Greetings from Ukraine. I'm in the Kharkiv oblast, which the huge numbers of Russian speakers all around prefer to call the Kharkov oblast. But, whichever your preferred vowel, this oblast is oh, such a blast. Last night, the actual Russians (from Russia, that is) tried to take a town about fifteen kilometres away from where I am...
Politics & Current Affairs
It's Still the Demography, Stupid
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...
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...
On the Town
Somewhere in France with You
A special D-Day edition of Mark's Serenade Radio show, turning the clock back to the sounds and sentiments of the era...
After America
The Swallows Skim, and All Is Hushed
A special Memorial Day edition on battle, sacrifice and remembrance - from the Civil War to the Great War to the unwon wars of our own time...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Some Enchanted Evening, Rodgers and Hammerstein, AND Frank Sinatra
Mark Steyn Club members and readers get a treat and twofer for tonight's Steyn's Song of the Week! Below, Mark gives the history, context, and story behind Some Enchanted Evening (from 2015). And today, Serenade Radio featured Mark's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, listen here. In George Lucas' best film - no, not Star Wars Episode 12: The Force Awakens the Empire's Return of the Revenge of the Awakening of the Force, but American Graffiti - there's a scene where young Harrison Ford and young Cindy Williams are sitting sullenly in his '55 Chevy during a rather awkward moment in their relationship. Ford told Lucas he thought it might be a good idea to serenade her in a somewhat sardonic fashion. The director liked the idea, and they tried the ...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Who's Afraid of the Weeping Willow?
Today's episode celebrates an old friend of our host, the late Ann Ronell, who tells Mark about her two biggest hits...
On the Town
The Canine Sinatra
Welcome to this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town. On today's show, we start with Eurovisions past and end with the canine Sinatra...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Happy Birthday to You
There's really only one song with which we could celebrate The Mark Steyn Club's ninth anniversary...
On the Town
Centrefolds and Chaperones
On today's show, we start with playmates and end with chaperones...
Tales for Our Time
Jinns, Rosières, and Prince Bob
One of the most popular features of Tales for Our Time has been the music Mark chooses to accompany each story. So here, after many requests, is a sampler of the accompanying melodies from some of our tales...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Just a Gigolo
Mark traces the history of a very distinctive song from the twilight of the Habsburg Empire to the twilight of disco via an especially pitiful act of rock karaoke and the loss of the word "gigolette"...
On the Town
The Last Farewell
Welcome to this week's edition, coming to you live-ish from the delightful and historic city of Odessa...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Begin the Beguine
Mark in conversation with Artie Shaw and Julio Iglesias on a Cole Porter classic...
On the Town
Dancing with the Polovtsians
With so many ongoing Russian blasts across the oblasts, we enjoy a few extra Ukrainian blasts across the oblasts, with a brief detour into the good old days of the Polovtsian empire...
On the Town
Man, It's an Oblast!
Welcome to this week's edition. I'm weekending in Kiev, and so I thought we'd enjoy a bevy of blasts from oblasts...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Taxman
April 15th marks the end of "Tax Season" in America, and Mark has a seasonal song...
On the Town
You Don't Have to Be Bananas to Work Here
On this week's edition, being of a contrarian bent, we start by going beddy-bye and end at dawn. In between come an easy-listening take on a rock classic, and an extended cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones...
Steyn's Sunday Poems
The Whole Earth Is Our Hospital...
An Easter entry to Mark's anthology of video poetry - from T S Eliot's Four Quartets...
On the Town
Fools and Farewells
On this week's show we start in search of a standard and wind up getting a Handel on it. In between come an anglo-franco Caribbean, Japan's all-time biggest non-Japanese hit and Sousa's afternoon nap...
A Clubman's Notes
"The Moslem Character"
The conclusion of our seventy-ninth Tale for Our Time: The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer...
A Clubman's Notes
A Night Most Strangely Still
In episode twenty, Cavanagh and the girl with the violet eyes are hot on the trail of Hassan...
A Clubman's Notes
Yellow Silk and Hashish
In episode thirteen of Sax Rohmer's Mohammedan caper, thriller abducted hero awakes in a heady environment...
A Clubman's Notes
Islam Comes Knocking
In episode five, the forces of the Prophet manage to get the better of Scotland Yard's finest...
A Clubman's Notes
The Box Trick of Mohammed
In Part Three of our serialisation of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer, Cavanagh suspects someone is trailing him...
A Clubman's Notes
Hands Off
Welcome to the seventy-ninth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time. Sax Rohmer was at one point one of the biggest-selling authors in the world - and then the arbiters of our culture decided to eighty-six his most famous creation...
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