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: April 6-12
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...
Rick's Flicks
House Proud: Cary Grant in Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House
Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House is remembered as a hit even though it lost money at the box office during its initial theatrical run. It's more accurate to say that the 1948 picture (and the book it was based on) was a cultural sensation, hitting a nerve with the American public during that anxious moment when World War II was over but nobody was confidently predicting a postwar economic boom that would last two decades. When journalist Eric Hodgins published his comic novel in 1946, inspired by his disastrous attempt to build a home for his family in New Milford, Connecticut, hostilities had been over for a year but the United States hadn't been building homes for a decade and a half thanks to the Depression and the war. Millions of ...
On the Town
Flight of Fancy
On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town Mark celebrates the great Josephine Baker and observes the International Day of Human Space Flight with Nat King Cole, Linda Ronstadt's nephews, and a totally spaced-out Sinatra. He also remembers an old friend and colleague, Serenade's mid-morning man Dick Fisher, who died last weekend...
Politics & Current Affairs
Five Strikes, You're Out
The Mark Steyn Cruise is at La Coruña on the Galician coast today. Nevertheless, the occasional news story from the wider world has penetrated our splendid seaborne isolation. ~This, for example, is an interesting development. From the Reinickendorf district of Berlin:
Laura's Links
Keep Your Fork!
Greetings to one and all and welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Tariffs, China and Passover
...Laura took questions on Trump's tariffs, China, Passover preparations and napping among other exciting topics. If you missed the live show, you can listen to the replay here...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday April 9th
Another Wednesday means that there is another scintillating Mark Steyn Club Q&A Live Around the Planet just around the corner...
The War on Free Speech
A Contemptible Man Punches Down
You would be hard put to find a more obvious example of "punching down" than savaging a corpse. But that's what an enduring leftie icon did, as free speech died in the west...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Mack the Knife
The Weimar Republic's great gift to Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Darin and Frank Sinatra
On the Town
April in Paris (Naked)
On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town Mark remembers a great French star and a not so German composer - plus Sinatra sings songs for the season...
Topical Take
The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Steyn on Adolescence, the Montreal massacre, and the lies we tell ourselves...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
The Stench of the Swamp
If you missed today's edition of Steyn's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. This week's show covered a range of questions from corruption in America to civil war in Europe...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Body and Soul
If you missed today's Serenade Radio broadcast, here's a chance to catch up via this SteynOnline premiere of one of our audio Songs of the Week. In this show I tell the story of one of the most recorded of all compositions...
Politics & Current Affairs
Purpose vs Passivity
Setting aside any "national security" concerns arising from letting The Atlantic's Russia-hoaxer Jeffrey Goldberg in on the Administration's Houthi-bombing call, I doubt that any creature more sentient than an amoeba can have been surprised to learn that US cabinet members "loathe" European "freeloading". If you're paying attention, you'll know that total contempt for the Euros appears to be entirely bipartisan...
Mann vs Steyn
COURT FOOL, n. The plaintiff.
Live by Falsifying Evidence, Die by Falsifying Evidence...
Mann vs Steyn
Mann Ordered to Pay More than Those He Sought to Destroy
In a stunning but not unexpected ruling today, Judge Irving of the DC Superior Court has reduced the unconstitutional punitive damages jury award against Mark from one million dollars to a mere $5,000...
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...
A Clubman's Notes
Seeping Back into the Matrix
Welcome to the final episode of our current Tale for Our Time. As the concluding episode of The Rubber Check begins, Val Schuyler is momentarily flush...
A Clubman's Notes
Cutting In ...and Cut Out
Welcome to the latest of The Mark Steyn Club's Tales for Our Time: Mark reads Part Two of Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Rubber Check"...
A Clubman's Notes
Bouncing On
This weekend we enjoy the simplest of short stories, a tale of catastrophic ordinariness: The Rubber Check, written in 1932 by F Scott Fitzgerald...
A Clubman's Notes
Unhappy Motoring
Welcome to the conclusion of our springtime Tale for Our Time: The Girl on the Boat by P G Wodehouse...
A Clubman's Notes
The Hall Fills Up NIcely
In tonight's penultimate episode of The Girl on the Boat, Smith is thrilled to see the household assemble for the final showdown...
A Clubman's Notes
Nisi Prius
Episode Fifteen of The Girl on the Boat, P G Wodehouse's comic novel of 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
A Rather Eventful Night
P G Wodehouse's The Girl on the Boat is a blast of pure joy to get us through the doubtful days of early spring. In tonight's episode for one of the house guests at Windles it is, thanks to a piece of lobster shell, a rather eventful night. Part 14.
A Clubman's Notes
The Calm of the Country
Welcome to the thirteenth episode of our current Tale for Our Time: The Girl on the Boat by P G Wodehouse...
A Clubman's Notes
Strike Up the Orchestrion!
Episode Twelve of The Girl on the Boat by P G Wodehouse...
A Clubman's Notes
Dinner for Six
Welcome to Part Eleven of Mark's nightly audio adventure: The Girl on the Boat, a comic romp from 1922 by P G Wodehouse...
A Clubman's Notes
Two-Gun Thomas and the Wolves of the Bowery
Welcome to Part Ten in our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time. This month's yarn was published 103 years ago, and is revived here because of its comic ingenuity and sheer delight: The Girl on the Boat, by P G Wodehouse...
A Clubman's Notes
Asunder at the Seaside
Our latest Tale for Our Time charges on: Episode Nine of The Girl on the Boat, P G Wodehouse's comic romp of 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
"How Was I to Know?"
In Episode Eight of The Girl on the Boat, a ship's concert for the benefit of the Seamen's Widows and Orphans is trying enough in the best of circumstances, but even more so when your fiancée fails to recognise who you're meant to be imitating...
A Clubman's Notes
The Hit of the Trinity Smoker
It's time for Part Seven of our latest Tale for Our Time: The Girl on the Boat is P G Wodehouse's nautical entertainment of 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
An Excess of Rhyme
Welcome to Part Six of our nightly audio entertainment - The Girl on the Boat, P G Wodehouse's comic diversion of 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
Exclusive Interview!
Welcome to Part Five of our brand new Tale for Our Time: The Girl on the Boat by P G Wodehouse, published in 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
The Which of What
Here we go with Part Four of our latest audio diversion, and our second foray into the oeuvre of P G Wodehouse...
A Clubman's Notes
Crag to Crag, Blonde to Blonde
Welcome to the third installment of our brand new Tale for Our Time, an ocean-going romp by P G Wodehouse, published in 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
Cat-Swinging on the Briny
Welcome to Part Two of The Girl on the Boat, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and our second foray into the oeuvre of P G Wodehouse - as well as, we hope, a respite from the woes of the world, if only for twenty minutes before you lower your lamp...
A Clubman's Notes
When the Getting Was Good...
Welcome to the sixty-ninth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time...
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