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Laura's Links
Do The Thing
Greetings, and thank you for being here for another batch of Laura's Links. My finishing touches to the column are being handled in between the Passover shopping and cleaning, which is almost all coming to a closure. Me and Mr. C just wolfed down a falafel and fries, the last leavened goodies (the pita) that we will be having for the next week. Our house is now fully Kosher For Passover, and we just have to move the Passover products and dishes into the fully cleaned kitchen. By the time you read this, the holiday will have already started on Wednesday night. This year, us Cohens are lucky to be invited to a Seder with family, which means a lot less work for us this year (yay). Preparing for a Seder is a huge production. We were instructed ...
Politics & Current Affairs
Strait Man
Programming note: Tomorrow, Wednesday, I hope to be here for another edition of our Clubland Q&A taking questions from Steyn Clubbers live around the planet at 3pm North American Eastern - which is now restored to its regular hour across the Atlantic: 8pm in London/9pm in Paris. ~As you know, in deference to the divergence of opinion among readers, we are now starting each column by linking to an alternative position to my own - that's to say, a pro-war analysis. Long, long ago, I lunched at the White House with George W Bush's speechwriter Marc Thiessen. After articulating Iraq and Afghanistan for the forty-third president, here he is arguing that to date the Iran war is "the greatest military campaign ...since the American Revolution". ...
Politics & Current Affairs
Day Thirty-One
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: From the playwright George S Kaufman upon the German invasion of the Soviet Union: "I think they're shooting without a script."
A Clubman's Notes
My Way or the Highway
This week's episode of Mark's ongoing audio adaptation of his bestselling America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...
Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: March 22-28
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick's Flicks
Marriage of Inconvenience: Preston Sturges and The Palm Beach Story
Rick McGinnis on a screwball masterpiece...
The Mark Steyn Show
Criminalising Christianity
A Steyn Show guest is convicted by the Finnish Supreme Court...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Persian Mix
In case you missed our Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday March 25th
Guest host Laura Rosen Cohen fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members...
Politics & Current Affairs
Who's Calling Whom?
We don't need to be nuked by Iran. We are our own suicide bomb...
A Clubman's Notes
The Importance of Being Exceptional
This week's episode of Mark's ongoing audio adaptation of his bestselling America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...
On the Town
A Quiet Thing
On this week's edition we start in Mississippi and end with a very small finish. Plus: Liza Minnelli and her pals Kander & Ebb tell me about their first Broadway show, and we tip our toes into dancing on radio...
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War Aims
In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
Politics & Current Affairs
The Waning of the Green
Happy St Patrick's Day to our many Irish readers around the world. We begin with the official greeting of the new "President of Ireland"...
Politics & Current Affairs
Up the Escalator
Given all the dissent in our comments section, I thought today I would pose a few thought experiments...
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...
The Mark Steyn Show
The Best of Eva
Keir Starmer's Islamised Home Office bans a favourite Steyn Show guest...
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...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
A song by Mel Tillis that found its perfect interpreter in Kenny Rogers...
On the Town
A Mesmerising Muskrat
On this week's show we start with the vernal equinox and end with the fundamental things in Italian...
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...
A Clubman's Notes
Infested by Fanatic Easterns
In tonight's penultimate episode of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, Cavanagh surveys the scene from his friend's window...
A Clubman's Notes
It's So Peaceful in the Country
In tonight's episode Cavanagh gets an opportunity to recuperate from his travails in Warwickshire...
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...
A Clubman's Notes
A Jewish Gentleman in the Village
In episode nineteen, Cavanagh and the girl with the violet eyes abandon the perfumed metropolis for the bracing fresh air of (then) rural Kent...
A Clubman's Notes
Thoroughly Familiar with the East
In episode eighteen, the girl with the violet eyes offers to help Cavanagh track down Hassan of Aleppo...
A Clubman's Notes
London Crumbles
In episode fourteen Cavanagh has yet another visitor at the door...
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...
A Clubman's Notes
Incredible Feats
Here is Part Twelve of Sax Rohmer's Mohammedan caper. We begin with Cavanagh immobilised...
A Clubman's Notes
Follow That Tram!
In episode eleven, our protagonist's quiet nocturnal stroll is suddenly interrupted...
A Clubman's Notes
Sordidly Western, Mystically Eastern
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...
A Clubman's Notes
A Tree Pruner in the Burton Room
Welcome to Part Nine of Mark's narration of a Mohammedan caper by Sax Rohmer from 1914...
A Clubman's Notes
Venomous in its Death Throes
In episode seven our protagonist gets to the nub of the issue...
A Clubman's Notes
Darting Dwarves
In episode six of our yarn, another night full of "dark business" from the Middle Ages is about to begin...
A Clubman's Notes
Islam Comes Knocking
In episode five, the forces of the Prophet manage to get the better of Scotland Yard's finest...
A Clubman's Notes
Smiting the Infidel
In episode four, Scotland Yard is concerned that an Islamic terror cell is on the loose in London:
A Clubman's Notes
The Box Trick of Mohammed
In Part Three of our serialisation of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer, Cavanagh suspects someone is trailing him...
A Clubman's Notes
A Souvenir of Mecca
In episode two of Sax Rohmer's tale, an Englishman has returned to London with something the Mohammedans are very anxious to recover...
A Clubman's Notes
Hands Off
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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