When the 15th Academy Awards kicked off at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub at the Ambassador Hotel on the evening of March 4, 1943, MGM's Mrs. Miniver was up for a staggering dozen nominations, and ended up walking away with six, including top of the| SteynOnline
It goes without saying that every war film (and a few other besides) that Hollywood made during World War Two was a propaganda film. Nobody would mistake Destination Tokyo (1943) as anything but propaganda, made by Warners, arguably the most jingoistic| SteynOnline
I hope our American and Canadian readers had a good Labor/Labour Day weekend. Herewith, a brisk survey of the passing scene: ~Today the 47th president appeared, finally, to break with the 45th president on what he had continued to insist was his great| SteynOnline
Happy Labor Day/Happy Labour Day to our American and Canadian listeners respectively...| SteynOnline
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...| SteynOnline
Faye Dunaway is famously unwilling to talk about playing Joan Crawford in the notorious 1981 biopic Mommie Dearest, a film that she claims damaged her reputation by grafting her portrayal of Crawford to her own cinematic persona and professional| SteynOnline
On this week's episode we celebrate two musical centenaries, enjoy a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones down the decades, and conclude our series of Sinatra Summer Stock with Oklahoma! In between come musical artistes from Bing to 10cc, and a very Marmitey song...| SteynOnline
To hear this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town from Serenade Radio, simply click above. To comment on this latest audio excursion from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down. And don't forget to join Mark on Serenade Radio next| SteynOnline
Hurricane Katrina made landfall exactly two decades ago...| SteynOnline
Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...| SteynOnline
In case you missed this week's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...| SteynOnline
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...| SteynOnline
Well, it's been nine months since the last US election. So time to get the next election underway...| SteynOnline
One in six Americans aren't American...| SteynOnline
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...| SteynOnline
A live Song of the Week with the irrepressible Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits and a great pop song by Les Reed and Geoff Stephens...| SteynOnline
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| SteynOnline
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| SteynOnline
To hear this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town from Serenade Radio, simply click above. To comment on this latest audio excursion from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down. And don't forget to join Mark on Serenade Radio next| SteynOnline
Tomorrow, Saturday, Mark will be back for his weekend music show Mark Steyn on the Town. It airs 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| SteynOnline
Hello again and welcome to this week's fresh batch of Laura's Links. Thanks again to everyone who joined us for The Mark Steyn Club Live Q&A Around the Planet yesterday, hosted by yours truly. In case you missed it, you can hear the replay here. There| SteynOnline
If you missed our Clubland Q&A with guest host Laura Rosen Cohen, here's the action replay...| SteynOnline
Today guest host Laura Rosen Cohen fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet at 3pm ET/ 8pm UK...| SteynOnline
Finland's in. Canada's out.| SteynOnline
How low can the DC Bar go?| SteynOnline
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...| SteynOnline
Mark is a little under the weather today, so for our Song of the Week this week we're reprising a song that first appeared here over a decade ago. It was heard on this weekend's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, and it seems appropriate upon this| SteynOnline
Like so many westerns after Tex Ritter had a hit with the theme for High Noon, The Lonely Man (1957) starts with a cowboy tune sung by no less than Tennessee Ernie Ford. "The world looks empty to a lonely man," Ford sings, "as he rides an endless trail."| SteynOnline
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| SteynOnline
To hear this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town from Serenade Radio, simply click above. To comment on this latest audio excursion from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down. And don't forget to join Mark on Serenade Radio next| SteynOnline
Today is the 80th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day (the last time - Mark is wont to remind us - that the government/ trannified Pentagon managed to win anything). Later, President Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska to| SteynOnline
If you missed today's edition of Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. Thank you to everyone who joined Laura live for the show. Laura talked about DC, the West, nutmeg, Jewish weddings, Mr. C's hand and civilizational collapse.| SteynOnline
Programming Note: Mr. C, as Laura notes below, is fine, thankfully! But due to the switch of our regular Q&A from today to tomorrow, we are posting Laura's Links a day early. So be sure to keep those questions coming and feel free to ask Laura about the| SteynOnline
ANOTHER UPDATE! If you missed today's edition of Clubland Q&A live around the planet, the action replay can be found here. THURSDAY UPDATE (AUG 14, 9 a.m. EST) -- Reminder, Q&A is today at 3 p.m. EST. Be sure to submit your questions for guest host Laura| SteynOnline
Programming note: Tomorrow, Wednesday, I hope to be here for our midweek Clubland Q&A taking questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm British Summer Time/9pm Central European. Hope you| SteynOnline
The "fifteen-minute cities" are already shrinking. The governments of both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have banned walking in the woods province-wide: Jeff Evely @JeffEvely got a $28,872 dollar fine for going into the woods in Nova Scotia.FOR GOING| SteynOnline
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...| SteynOnline
Just for our Hawaiian readers, in honour of this coming week's Statehood Day: Rock-a-hulaRock-rock-a-hulaRock-a-hulaRock-rock-a-hula... On August 21st 1959, Hawaii joined the United States of America as the fiftieth state, and in just its first| SteynOnline
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| SteynOnline
To hear the conclusion of The Final Problem, simply click above. For previous Tales for Our Time, please click here. To comment on this latest audio adventure from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down and don't forget to join us soon| SteynOnline
There's a story director Frank Capra tells in his 1971 memoir The Name Above the Title that reinforces his abiding public image – Hollywood's greatest patriot; the man who did more to restore America's faith in its founders' vision than any newspaper| SteynOnline
Programming note: Please join Mark later this evening at SteynOnline for the conclusion of his latest Tale for Our Time - Sherlock Holmes and The Final Problem. ~On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we go down the Mississippi and up the| SteynOnline
To hear this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town from Serenade Radio, simply click above. To comment on this latest audio excursion from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down. And don't forget to join Mark on Serenade Radio next| SteynOnline
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.| SteynOnline
To hear Part One of The Final Problem, prefaced by Mark's introduction, simply click above. For previous Tales for Our Time, please click here. To comment on this latest audio adventure from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down - and| SteynOnline
Programming note: Please join me tonight at SteynOnline for the launch of our seventy-third Tale for Our Time. Tomorrow, Saturday, I'll be back for my weekend music show Mark Steyn on the Town. It airs at 5pm British Summer Time - which is 6pm in| SteynOnline
Hello again one and all, and welcome to another edition of Laura's Links. It was another hot week here in southern Ontario where so much is so, so SO badly managed, and we are still suffering under the "leadership" of what my friend Dean Skoreyko calls| SteynOnline
If you missed this week's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...| SteynOnline
UPPESTDATE! If you missed today's edition of Mark's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, the action replay is available here. UPPERDATE! We're live now, so let's have at it! UPDATE! We'll be going live in about fifteen minutes, so do get ready to fire| SteynOnline
Programming note: Tomorrow, Wednesday, I hope to be here for our midweek Clubland Q&A taking questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm British Summer Time/9pm Central European. Hope you| SteynOnline
A couple of things that caught my eye. First, à propos further revelations re "Russiagate" from the Durrrrrrrrrrrham Report - actually, from the Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrham Annex - Michael Ledwith thinks it confirms something called "the Steyn Rule" that I| SteynOnline
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...| SteynOnline
In the film Gigi, they sing of "The Night They Invented Champagne". In real life, it occurred more prosaically during daylight hours - specifically August 4th, which is generally observed as the day in 1693 when a Benedictine monk by name of Dom Pérignon| SteynOnline
On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we start and end with memorable mononyms, from Sting to Hildegarde. We also remember Cleo Laine and the Royal Victoria Hotel in Nassau. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Thank| SteynOnline
To hear this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town from Serenade Radio, simply click above. To comment on this latest audio excursion from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down. And don't forget to join Mark on Serenade Radio next| SteynOnline
If proof were needed of Carole Lombard's acting talent, it's a single shot early in "Hands Across the Table", the 1935 screwball made as a star vehicle for Lombard by Paramount...| SteynOnline
Mark remembers P D James, and a remarkably prescient novel| SteynOnline
In a summer anthology of poetry and music, Mark remembers Shelley, Mabel and an Ulster atrocity...| SteynOnline
Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the internet...| SteynOnline
If you missed this week's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...| SteynOnline
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...| SteynOnline
The stabbing of infants as a permanent feature of life...| SteynOnline
What happened to ¨the most eminently civilised society on earth?| SteynOnline
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...| SteynOnline
Mark tells the story of one of the most recorded songs of the last hundred years...| SteynOnline
Rick McGinnis on a British classic from the early Eighties...| SteynOnline
Steyn salutes a great songwriting team...| SteynOnline
Programming note: On Saturday, please join me for a special edition of our Serenade Radio weekend music show, 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| SteynOnline
To hear the conclusion of Heart of Darkness, simply click above. For earlier installments, see here. For previous Tales for Our Time, please click here. To comment on this latest audio adventure from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down| SteynOnline
The investigation into foreign interference with the 2016 election was created as a cover for domestic interference with the 2016 election| SteynOnline
In the penultimate episode of Heart of Darkness, the white men prepare to abandon the ruined trading-station...| SteynOnline
To hear the penultimate episode of Heart of Darkness, simply click above. For earlier installments, see here. For previous Tales for Our Time, please click here. To comment on this latest audio adventure from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and| SteynOnline
Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...| SteynOnline
If you missed this week's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...| SteynOnline
In tonight's installment of Joseph Conrad's classic, our protagonist passes a disturbed night at the ruined trading-station...| SteynOnline
To hear Part Thirteen of Heart of Darkness, simply click above. For earlier episodes, see here. For previous Tales for Our Time, please click here. To comment on this latest audio adventure from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down -| SteynOnline
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...| SteynOnline
In Part Twelve, our protagonist catches his first glimpse of the man who, on the voyage up the Congo, has haunted his imagination...| SteynOnline
Four years and bazillions of dollars: what John Durham managed to miss...| SteynOnline
To hear Part Twelve of Heart of Darkness, simply click above. For earlier episodes, see here. For previous Tales for Our Time, please click here. To comment on this latest audio adventure from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down - and| SteynOnline
Welcome to Part Eleven of our tale...| SteynOnline
To hear Part Eleven of Heart of Darkness, simply click above. For earlier episodes, see here. For previous Tales for Our Time, please click here. To comment on this latest audio adventure from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down - and| SteynOnline
Ladies and gentlemen, the next mayor of Minneapolis...| SteynOnline
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...| SteynOnline
In celebration of a great writing team, Mark celebrates the life and lyrics of Alan and Marilyn Bergman...| SteynOnline
Welcome to Part Ten of our current Tale for Our Time - Joseph Conrad's classic Heart of Darkness...| SteynOnline
To hear Part Ten of Heart of Darkness, simply click above. For earlier episodes, see here. For previous Tales for Our Time, please click here. To comment on this latest audio adventure from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down - and| SteynOnline
In tonight's episode of Heart of Darkness, there is something more terrifying than cannibals - fog...| SteynOnline
On this week's episode we remember two female singers and count down a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones across a century and beyond. Plus music from Mauritius, and Sinatra plays the palace...| SteynOnline
To hear this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town from Serenade Radio, simply click above. To comment on this latest audio excursion from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down. And don't forget to join Mark on Serenade Radio next| SteynOnline
To hear Part Nine of Heart of Darkness, simply click above. For earlier episodes, see here. For previous Tales for Our Time, please click here. To comment on this latest audio adventure from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down - and| SteynOnline
Rick McGinnis on Robert Wise's venture into major-league sci-fi...| SteynOnline
In tonight's episode of Heart of Darkness, our protagonist is beginning to wonder if his cannibal crew aren't getting a little peckish...| SteynOnline
To hear Part Eight of Heart of Darkness, simply click above. For earlier episodes, see here. For previous Tales for Our Time, please click here. To comment on this latest audio adventure from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down - and| SteynOnline
French diplomats, German judges and English constables have picked a side - and it isn't yours...| SteynOnline
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...| SteynOnline
To hear Part Seven of Heart of Darkness, simply click above. For earlier episodes, see here. For previous Tales for Our Time, please click here. To comment on this latest audio adventure from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down - and| SteynOnline
Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...| SteynOnline
Welcome to Part Six of our current audio entertainment in Tales for Our Time. For this steamy summer, we're enjoying Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, a crisply told tale from up the Congo at the end of the scramble for Africa...| SteynOnline
If you missed this week's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...| SteynOnline