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mark s bio mark s contributors faq lines on steyn licensing permissions may 29 2026 may 28 2026 may 28 2026 may 26 2026 may 25 2026 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 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 continue reading 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 continue reading 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 continue reading 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 continue reading mark at the movies high society mark sits in for our regular movie column continue reading 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 continue reading friday notebook a monster and his suck ups as the uss nimitz heads to the caribbean we share mark s obituary to fidel castro continue reading laura s links stop hucking my tshaynik laura rosen cohen rounds up the internet continue reading 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 continue reading clubland q a live around the planet wednesday may 20th laura rosen cohen fields questions from mark steyn club members continue reading topical take britain on the brink part deux mark had his number continue reading topical take a society entirely without division the groupthink in our public discourse is so pervasive it goes as unnoticed as the air continue reading 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 continue reading 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 continue reading politics current affairs the future shows up steyn on england s elections continue reading the mark steyn audio show the great satan in case you missed steyn s clubland q a here s the action replay continue reading 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 continue reading politics current affairs the strait jacket wars the world has lost interest in is paradoxically a subject of great interest to me continue reading 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 continue reading politics current affairs when wars merge steyn has a somewhat disturbed night continue reading politics current affairs let me show you to your room distance lends a smidgeonette of enhanced perspective continue reading a clubman s notes oops he did it again washington is ever more like churchill s riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma continue reading politics current affairs the secret service makes me nervous steyn on yet another trump assassination attempt continue reading 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 continue reading mann vs steyn mann s 9m jury lie doctor fraudpants flops out again continue reading 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 continue reading 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 continue reading 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 continue reading 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 continue reading 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 continue reading on the town mbube switcheroonie the fourth episode of mark s weekly show on serenade radio continue reading 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 continue reading 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 continue reading 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 continue reading on the town centrefolds and chaperones on today s show we start with playmates and end with chaperones continue reading 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 continue reading 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 continue reading 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 continue reading steyn s song of the week begin the beguine mark in conversation with artie shaw and julio iglesias on a cole porter classic continue reading 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 continue reading steyn s song of the week my one and only love a great ukrainian song continue reading 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 continue reading steyn s song of the week taxman april 15th marks the end of tax season in america and mark has a seasonal song continue reading 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 continue reading 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 continue reading 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 continue reading 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 continue reading 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 continue reading 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 continue reading a clubman s notes islam 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