Does anyone still talk about the Three Rs in education? That would be reading, writing and racism ...whoops, my mistake, 'rithmetic. It isn't difficult. Every weekend, my inbox fills up with readers demanding to know what I think about this or that news story, but in the end all the news stories are the same. Just from the last couple of days: ~At McGill University in Montreal, cute young predominantly female students in masks and keffiyehs take over the campus to demand "intifada until victory"; ~At the University of Texas in Austin, a comedian attempts to point out to members of Trans 4 Palestine the internal contradictions of the rainbow coalition, and for his pains gets beaten up; ~At Châteauroux in central France, fifteen-year-old ...
Mark and chums with a musical special live on stage at Hillsdale College...
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...
Rick McGinnis on the biker movie...
Steyn's Court Report on cases from Donald Trump to Harvey Weinstein via Tommy Robinson...
Mark fields questions on many topics, from the woeful state of American education to the woeful state of the British police via the woeful state of the "Official Jews". All that plus a great conductor with some music for St George's Day and Anzac Day...
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
Mark celebrates the centenary of Henry Mancini...
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...
Just ahead of Episode Twelve of The Secret Adversary, a reminder that tomorrow, Wednesday, I'll be conducting another Clubland Q&A live around the planet at 3pm North American Eastern/8pm British Summer Time. Steyn Clubbers ask the questions, and I try to answer them. We continue to receive correspondence on my rare (post-heart attacks) stage appearance at Hillsdale for a special musical event with Marla Schaffel and Ross Patterson. Don, a California member of The Mark Steyn Club, writes: Your lecture at Hillsdale College was wonderful, enjoyed every minute of it. A release from the troubles of the world. Thanks. Linda Powers, a Kansas Steyn Clubber, agrees: I enjoyed every moment of this last hour listening to you and your accompanists. ...
Part Eleven of Agatha Christie's second novel, The Secret Adversary...
Part Ten of a very timely tale: Mark's serialisation of The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie...
Part Nine of The Secret Adversary, Agatha Christie's first Tommy & Tuppence caper, set against the turbulent politics of the world after the Great War...
Episode Eight of our current Tale for Our Time: The Secret Adversary...
Part Seven of Steyn's latest Tale for Our Time: The Secret Adversary, with Agatha Christie venturing from country-house murders at St Mary Mead into the high stakes of post-Great War politics...
Part Six of our nightly audio entertainment - The Secret Adversary, an early Agatha Christie caper of Tommy & Tuppence attempting to scuttle coup-fomenting Bolshevists on the mean streets of London...
Part Five of a rather English adventure: an Agatha Christie caper set amidst Bolshevist plots on the streets of London - The Secret Adversary...
Part Four of our latest audio diversion: The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie's 1922 caper set in a London seething with Bolshevists and labour unrest...
Welcome to Episode Three of Agatha Christie's tale of Bolshevist revolution looming on the streets of London...
Welcome to Part Two of The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and set amidst Bolshevik intrigue on the streets of London...
Welcome to the sixty-second audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our second venture into the work of the world's bestselling author, Agatha Christie...