“Leaving the house was my first mistake.” That’s an old running gag on my...

Eureka!
Money TrumpsReaders of Takimag would do well to dial down the U.S. election noise blurting from... |
Zeitgeist
A Heaping Helping of HitlersThe left’s grip on reality has never exactly been vise-like. But it seems to me... |
Church and State
The Business End of FreedomIf you still believe big business is, as novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand famously... |
Cultural Caviar
Thinking of EnglandDue to the vagaries of the lunar calendar, the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising... |
Shaidle Unchained
St. Rob Ford the BaptistThey won’t have Rob Ford to stub their toes on anymore. Last week, the... |
International Affairs
Is Trump Right About NATO?I am “not isolationist, but I am ‘America First,’” Donald Trump told The New York... |
For the Children
A Blizzard of Special SnowflakesIt wasn’t quite the Kent State Massacre, but you wouldn’t know it from the students’... |
News
The Week That PerishedThe Week’s Most Inscrutable, Unsuitable, and Irrefutable Headlines THE ONLY THING... |
Vile Bodies
The Dangers of SaccharineI flew to Paris the day Brussels was bombed. It was a fine day—weather-wise—and... |
Idiocracy
Bring Lexi HomeOn Monday, agents from L.A. County’s Department of Children and Family Services... |
Sports
Why College Athletes Should Get Paid More Than TeachersTo say that college point guards should be paid more than middle school... |
The Untold Story
Nancy Reagan’s Bitter FruitsIn its never-ending search for scapegoats, the left has decided that Nancy Reagan... |