Beyond The Mark Steyn Show:
Columns, poems, tales, music, movies and more from Mark and friends
Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: August 17-23
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick's Flicks
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo: Desperate Times and Desperate Measures
In his book Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Doolittle Raid pilot Ted Lawson recalls the moment his B-25 bomber reached the coast of Japan – the first land he had seen, he tells us, after being at sea on the USS Hornet for nearly three weeks. "It looked very pretty," he writes: "Everything seemed as well kept as a big rock garden. The little farms were fitted in with almost mathematical precision. The fresh spring grass was brilliantly green. There were fruit trees in bloom, and farmers working in their fields waved to us as we pounded just over their heads. A red lacquered temple loomed before us, its coloring exceedingly sharp. I put the nose of the ship up a little, cleared the temple, and got down lower again." Just a moment earlier Lawson ...
Topical Take
Role Reversal
Increasingly in US life, whether or not something is "unconstitutional" has no real-world meaning...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
"Reasonable and Proportionate"
If you missed our Clubland Q&A with guest host Laura Rosen Cohen, here's the action replay...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday August 20th
Guest host Laura Rosen Cohen fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet...
Politics & Current Affairs
A Stopped Grok Is Right Once a Day
"...I blow hot and cold on Artificial Intelligence. Sometimes I think it's the end of everything, and that we will be the last truly human generation. Then again, as the above illustrates, it may just be two duelling interns from Bangalore in the back room fighting for control of the 'Publish' button..."
Politics & Current Affairs
If You Go Down to the Woods Today...
The "fifteen-minute cities" are already shrinking...
On the Town
Tote Dat Barge, Take Off Your Kit
On this week's episode, we go down the Mississippi and up the Nile. Denial is a river in Egypt and Déshabillée is a state of undress in France - and this is the only show that embraces both of them...
Politics & Current Affairs
Going Dutch
Well, it's that time of year again, when the media run their annual stories from Japan about the biggest yearly population fall since records began...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Hard to Get Through on the Phone
In a summer anthology of poetry and music, Mark remembers Shelley, Mabel and an Ulster atrocity...
On the Town
Words That Jangle in Your Head: The Songs of Alan and Marilyn Bergman
Steyn salutes a great songwriting team...
The Mark Steyn Show
Enablers of Evil
Today's episode was filmed live on the Mark Steyn Iberian Cruise with three of our special guests: Sammy Woodhouse, Samantha Smith and Allison Pearson...
On the Town
And the Living Is Easy
On Serenade Radio's latest episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we begin with The Naked Gun and a very niche musical genre and work our way round to a Vegas lounge take on monarchical music hall from England. In between comes our Café Continental - plus Porgy and Bess and Frank. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Thank you for your kind comments about last week's edition. From England, Nick Hingley says: A great programme as always – learned many new things about songs I already knew well. Fran, a First Weekend Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club, writes: I've heard a lot of these terrifically executed Mark Steyn on the Town episodes but really not sure how you can top this one. Thanks so much for pouring all ...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Come Fly with Me
Up there where the air is rarefied: Sinatra and the soundtrack of the Jet Age...
On the Town
Grand at the Game
On Serenade Radio's latest episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we take off with Caterina Valente, and build up, somewhat counter-intuitively, to the forgotten theme from a floppo sitcom. But in between come a gubernatorial blockbuster, a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones, and five words you can take to the bank: Frank Sinatra sings Cole Porter.
A Clubman's Notes
An Unwanted Intrusion at Victoria
Welcome to the conclusion of our seventy-third Tale for Our Time: The Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle. In this grand dénouement Holmes and Watson are booked on the Continental express, but at Victoria Station the latter cannot find the former: In vain I searched among the groups of travellers and leave-takers for the lithe figure of my friend. There was no sign of him. I spent a few minutes in assisting a venerable Italian priest, who was endeavouring to make a porter understand, in his broken English, that his luggage was to be booked through to Paris. Then, having taken another look round, I returned to my carriage, where I found that the porter, in spite of the ticket, had given me my decrepit Italian friend as a travelling ...
A Clubman's Notes
The Napoleon of Crime
Programming note: Tomorrow, Saturday, please join me for the latest edition of my Serenade Radio weekend music show, Mark Steyn on the Town. The fun starts at 5pm British Summer Time - which is 6pm in Western Europe and 12 noon North American Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere on the planet by clicking the button at top right here. ~Ahead of that, welcome to the seventy-third audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time. We are in our ninth season, and we've built a spectacular archive that runs the gamut from A to Z ...well, not quite, but certainly A to W - Jane Austen to P G Wodehouse. The newest addition to our collection is our fourth adaptation by the author who launched our series of audio adventures, Sir Arthur ...
On the Town
Love Alone
On this week's episode, we start and end with memorable mononyms, from Sting to Hildegarde. We also remember Cleo Laine and the Royal Victoria Hotel in Nassau...
A Clubman's Notes
An Irritating Pretence
Welcome to the conclusion of our seventy-second Tale for Our Time: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad...
A Clubman's Notes
Buried in a Heap of Cotton-Wool
In tonight's episode of Heart of Darkness, there is something more terrifying than cannibals - fog...
A Clubman's Notes
Lost in a Daze
Welcome to Part Seven of our seventy-second audio entertainment in Tales for Our Time. This summer, we're enjoying Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad...
A Clubman's Notes
Imbecile Rapacity
In Part Five of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness our protagonist finds his fellow Europeans both absurd and disturbing...
A Clubman's Notes
A Vast Amount of Red
Welcome to Part Two of Heart of Darkness, our summer audio adventure in Tales for Our Time...
A Clubman's Notes
The Very End of the World
Welcome to the seventy-second audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time...
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...
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