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Beyond The Mark Steyn Show:
Columns, poems, tales, music, movies and more from Mark and friends

Steyn's Song of the Week

Lullaby of Broadway

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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...

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Mark's Week in Review

A Se'nnight of Steyn: March 8-14

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In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...

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Rick's Flicks

Best Years of Her Life: Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story

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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...

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On the Town

May I Have the Envelope..?

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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...

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Politics & Current Affairs

The Ground We Surrendered

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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...

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Laura's Links

One Step At A Time

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Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Grand Prince of War

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In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...

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Clubland Q&A

Live Around the Planet: Wednesday March 11th

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Mark fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Your Kingdom for a Horse

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Would the condition of our own civilisation be any worse had it been governed by cardboard cutouts this past quarter-century?

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Politics & Current Affairs

Week Two Begins

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America is a "proposition nation", yea, even if the proposition is a suicidal one...

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Steyn's Song of the Week

Wichita Lineman

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Mark celebrates the all-time greatest love song about a guy who works for the utilities company...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Impermanence of Dominance

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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...

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On the Town

Hello Girls

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Mark celebrates the sesquicentennial of Patent # 174,465 to Alexander Graham Bell with a dip into a century's worth of telephone songs...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Dead Man Warring

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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....

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The Mark Steyn Audio Show

Magnificent Madness

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In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Day Four

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Regime change and "forever" wars...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Property of Allah

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The "war on terror" and the greatest strategic error of our time...

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A Clubman's Notes

The Elements of Power

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Taking out far-flung ayatollahs as Muslims fill Times Square to pray to Mecca...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Persian Carpet-Bombing

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Where we go from here is anybody's guess...

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Mann vs Steyn

Mann's $9M Jury Lie

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Doctor Fraudpants flops out again...

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Politics & Current Affairs

It's Still the Demography, Stupid

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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...

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The Mark Steyn Show

The Best of Eva

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Keir Starmer's Islamised Home Office bans a favourite Steyn Show guest...

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Tales for Our Time

The Prisoner of Windsor

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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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A Clubman's Notes

"The Moslem Character"

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The conclusion of our seventy-ninth Tale for Our Time: The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer...

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A Clubman's Notes

Infested by Fanatic Easterns

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In tonight's penultimate episode of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, Cavanagh surveys the scene from his friend's window...

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A Clubman's Notes

It's So Peaceful in the Country

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In tonight's episode Cavanagh gets an opportunity to recuperate from his travails in Warwickshire...

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A Clubman's Notes

A Night Most Strangely Still

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In episode twenty, Cavanagh and the girl with the violet eyes are hot on the trail of Hassan...

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A Clubman's Notes

A Jewish Gentleman in the Village

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In episode nineteen, Cavanagh and the girl with the violet eyes abandon the perfumed metropolis for the bracing fresh air of (then) rural Kent...

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A Clubman's Notes

Thoroughly Familiar with the East

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In episode eighteen, the girl with the violet eyes offers to help Cavanagh track down Hassan of Aleppo...

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A Clubman's Notes

Une Poire d'Angoisse

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Episode Seventeen of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper...

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A Clubman's Notes

Reduced to Skulking

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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. ..

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A Clubman's Notes

A Busy Day at the Bank

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Episode Fifteen of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper...

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A Clubman's Notes

London Crumbles

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In episode fourteen Cavanagh has yet another visitor at the door...

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A Clubman's Notes

Yellow Silk and Hashish

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In episode thirteen of Sax Rohmer's Mohammedan caper, thriller abducted hero awakes in a heady environment...

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A Clubman's Notes

Incredible Feats

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Here is Part Twelve of Sax Rohmer's Mohammedan caper. We begin with Cavanagh immobilised...

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A Clubman's Notes

Follow That Tram!

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In episode eleven, our protagonist's quiet nocturnal stroll is suddenly interrupted...

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A Clubman's Notes

Sordidly Western, Mystically Eastern

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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...

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A Clubman's Notes

A Tree Pruner in the Burton Room

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Welcome to Part Nine of Mark's narration of a Mohammedan caper by Sax Rohmer from 1914...

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A Clubman's Notes

Slipper and the Yard

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In episode eight, the usual suspects are already beginning to gather...

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A Clubman's Notes

Venomous in its Death Throes

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In episode seven our protagonist gets to the nub of the issue...

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A Clubman's Notes

Darting Dwarves

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In episode six of our yarn, another night full of "dark business" from the Middle Ages is about to begin...

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A Clubman's Notes

Islam Comes Knocking

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In episode five, the forces of the Prophet manage to get the better of Scotland Yard's finest...

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A Clubman's Notes

Smiting the Infidel

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In episode four, Scotland Yard is concerned that an Islamic terror cell is on the loose in London:

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A Clubman's Notes

The Box Trick of Mohammed

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In Part Three of our serialisation of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer, Cavanagh suspects someone is trailing him...

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A Clubman's Notes

A Souvenir of Mecca

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In episode two of Sax Rohmer's tale, an Englishman has returned to London with something the Mohammedans are very anxious to recover...

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A Clubman's Notes

Hands Off

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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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