Mark tells the tale of a composer who wrote three Oscar-winners and many more nominees - yet always wanted to be back in New York working on a Broadway show...
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...
The 13th Academy Awards – the ones where The Philadelphia Story was nominated in six categories – were the first held with sealed envelopes to keep the winners secret...
Welcome to the Academy Awards edition of Mark Steyn on the Town. Stand by for a cavalcade of Oscar winners, Oscar losers, and members of an even more pitiful category - from the Continent and from the Commonwealth, as written by a diverse array of songwriters from Irving Berlin to Bryan Adams...
This news is too sad. From Old Dominion University in Virginia: The victim of the terrorist attack at Old Dominion has been identified as Lt. Col. Brandon Shah-- who was a Professor of Military Science and the leader of the university's ROTC program. He was a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Atlantic...
In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
Mark fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet...
Would the condition of our own civilisation be any worse had it been governed by cardboard cutouts this past quarter-century?
America is a "proposition nation", yea, even if the proposition is a suicidal one...
Mark celebrates the all-time greatest love song about a guy who works for the utilities company...
As we begin a second week of shock-and-awe, there is an increasingly pronounced spring-of-2002 vibe to much of the "conservative" commentary. All the things they're saying about Trump, Hegseth and Rubio, they once said about Bush, Rumsfeld and Powell...
Mark celebrates the sesquicentennial of Patent # 174,465 to Alexander Graham Bell with a dip into a century's worth of telephone songs...
Meanwhile, the war goes on: ~HEADLINES TO PONDER: Greece to Exhume 150 COVID-19 Graves After Bodies Fail to Decompose I think the plan is to raise an Army of the Undead to take Iran....
In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
The "war on terror" and the greatest strategic error of our time...
Taking out far-flung ayatollahs as Muslims fill Times Square to pray to Mecca...
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...
Keir Starmer's Islamised Home Office bans a favourite Steyn Show guest...
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...
The conclusion of our seventy-ninth Tale for Our Time: The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer...
In tonight's penultimate episode of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, Cavanagh surveys the scene from his friend's window...
In tonight's episode Cavanagh gets an opportunity to recuperate from his travails in Warwickshire...
In episode twenty, Cavanagh and the girl with the violet eyes are hot on the trail of Hassan...
In episode nineteen, Cavanagh and the girl with the violet eyes abandon the perfumed metropolis for the bracing fresh air of (then) rural Kent...
In episode eighteen, the girl with the violet eyes offers to help Cavanagh track down Hassan of Aleppo...
On Episode Sixteen of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, the focus is not only on Hassan of Aleppo, but on Cavanagh and Bristol's other opponent, the legendary cracksman Earl Dexter. ..
In episode fourteen Cavanagh has yet another visitor at the door...
In episode thirteen of Sax Rohmer's Mohammedan caper, thriller abducted hero awakes in a heady environment...
Here is Part Twelve of Sax Rohmer's Mohammedan caper. We begin with Cavanagh immobilised...
In episode eleven, our protagonist's quiet nocturnal stroll is suddenly interrupted...
In episode ten our protagonists find themselves in one of the less salubrious parts of the Waterloo Road, where dwarves are dropping from the sky...
Welcome to Part Nine of Mark's narration of a Mohammedan caper by Sax Rohmer from 1914...
In episode eight, the usual suspects are already beginning to gather...
In episode seven our protagonist gets to the nub of the issue...
In episode six of our yarn, another night full of "dark business" from the Middle Ages is about to begin...
In episode five, the forces of the Prophet manage to get the better of Scotland Yard's finest...
In episode four, Scotland Yard is concerned that an Islamic terror cell is on the loose in London:
In Part Three of our serialisation of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer, Cavanagh suspects someone is trailing him...
In episode two of Sax Rohmer's tale, an Englishman has returned to London with something the Mohammedans are very anxious to recover...
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...