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Patrick J. Buchanan

McCain’s Base

Posted by Patrick J. Buchanan on July 22, 2008 / Comments (14)

“You go hunting where the ducks are,” said Barry Goldwater. The successor to Barry’s Senate seat apparently believes that ducks come from Mexico and speak Spanish. For in July alone, John McCain made three separate appearances before Hispanic groups. Last week, he spoke to La Raza (The Race), where rival Barack Obama said, “The Latino community holds the election in its … [Read More]


Christopher Roach

The Pentagon Needs a Choreographer

Posted by Christopher Roach on July 22, 2008 / Comments (57)

To combat Islamic terrorists more effectively, the US government should spend some real energy on image management, perhaps hiring a big Hollywood guru. Consider Maliki’s alleged insouciance. It’s good for the mission for us to get slapped down by Maliki if it appeases the honor-obsessed locals. Indeed, it may have a double benefit: slowing down the insurgents and providing a face-saving … [Read More]


John Zmirak

Where Bad Ideas Go to Die

Posted by John Zmirak on July 21, 2008 / Comments (17)

What did I learn from 8.5 years of graduate school in Creative Writing and English? Apart from useful stuff like how to structure a commercial screenplay, I realized that literature departments are where bad ideas go to die. That’s what I read between the lines of Russell Jacoby’s recent lament in the Chronicle of Higher Education: How is it that Freud … [Read More]


Austin Bramwell

Grand New Party, Same Old Illusions

Posted by Austin Bramwell on July 19, 2008 / Comments (9)
GNP

Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam have won near universal acclaim for their book, Grand New Party (albeit not from the editors of Taki’s Magazine—see here, here, and here). I trust, therefore, that they will not take umbrage at my criticisms, of which this will be the first of two installments. First, what is more of a complaint than a criticism, Grand … [Read More]


Richard Spencer

The Ugliest Yacht in the World

Posted by Richard Spencer on July 19, 2008 / Comments (22)

Friedrich Nietzsche observed, “it requires more genius to spend than to acquire"—making money being a question of diligence and cunning, wasting it a matter of taste. When the great philosopher wrote these words, he was actually concerned with the pervasiveness of the ascetic ideal among the capitalist elite: “The most industriousness of all ages—ours—does not know how
 to make anything of … [Read More]


Tom Piatak

From Richard to Rowan

Posted by Tom Piatak on July 18, 2008 / Comments (55)

The latest validation of James Burnham’s insight that “liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide” comes from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.  As the Daily Mail reported recently, Dr. Williams wrote an irenic letter to Moslem leaders in which he wrote that the doctrine of the Trinity “is difficult, sometimes offensive” to Moslems and in which he also apologized for … [Read More]


Patrick J. Buchanan

America’s First Affirmative Action Candidate

Posted by Patrick J. Buchanan on July 18, 2008 / Comments (33)

To watch the contortions over that New Yorker cover cartoon of the Obamas is to understand whom it is impermissible to offend in the America of 2008. The cartoon is a caricature of Michelle as an urban terrorist in an Angela Davis afro with an AK-47 slung over her back and a bandoleer of ammo in the Oval Office doing a … [Read More]


John Zmirak

Free the Cognitive Dissidents

Posted by John Zmirak on July 16, 2008 / Comments (44)

I’ve never been one for ruthless consistency. I learned young the fine art of emotional doublethink, from the experience of being at one and the same time: An orthodox Catholic who mentally assented to official Church teaching on sexuality, according to its 1917 formulation in the old Catholic Encyclopedia. A teenage boy. You needn’t read James Joyce to understand the game … [Read More]


Paul Gottfried

To Hell with Joe Klein!

Posted by Paul Gottfried on July 16, 2008 / Comments (119)

Apparently some of my friends who identify themselves with the Right, that is to say, Scott McConnell and Justin Raimondo, have come to the aid of Time contributor and liberal media superstar Joe Klein. Recently Klein scolded the neoconservatives for having incited the war in Iraq and for their excessive Zionist zeal. Because of his stepping out of line, Klein has … [Read More]


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Ecstasy at Sea

Posted by Taki Theodoracopulos on July 17, 2008
Taki Theodoracopulos

The sea surface is smooth and mirror-like, and from the deck of Bushido I scan the coastline for the mother and baby porpoises who live inside a blue-green grotto off Assos, … [Read More]

“The UN Made a Serious Mistake”

Posted by Evan McLaren on July 23, 2008
Evan McLaren

In 1971 the Shah of Iran told the UN that Cyrus II was a global democrat. Of course, they believed him, and celebrated. The aftermath of the hoax has been disastrous. … [Read More]

America—A Third World Nation

Posted by Justin Raimondo on July 23, 2008
Justin Raimondo

I’ve been busy lately, unfortunately, with nary a moment to do anything but write my antiwar.com column, but not too busy to at least note what’s been going on here at … [Read More]

You Got That Right

Posted by Justin Raimondo on July 23, 2008
Justin Raimondo

Obama slips up, as the Guardian reports: “When a US presidential candidate arrives in town, there is only one question on every Israeli’s mind: how good a friend to Israel will … [Read More]

Hayek, and a Half-Truth

Posted by Evan McLaren on July 22, 2008
Evan McLaren

Someone named Jesse Larner has an article in the winter issue of Dissent on Friedrich Hayek. He decided to make a study of Hayek, he writes, “much as, in my twenties, … [Read More]

The Diversity Recession Gets Worse

Posted by Richard Spencer on July 22, 2008
Richard Spencer

Over at VDARE, Steve Sailer has a follow-up article to his fantastic piece here at Takimag on ”The Diversity Recession”: One clue comes from looking at the places with the sharpest … [Read More]

Recent Comments

Re: Hayek, and a Half-Truth

Hmmm… I can only think that this reviewer read my piece on Hayek through such a thick fog of ideology that he literally was not able to discern the meaning of … [Read More]

Posted by Jesse Larner on July 23, 2008
Re: You Got That Right

LJ: you are right: A billboard on the BQE in Williamsburg Brooklyn states in 6’ tall letters: “Jews of the Diaspora against Zionism” Mention Zionists and their cozy relationship with Southern … [Read More]

Posted by Dirk W. Sabin on July 23, 2008
Re: The Truth About "The X-Files"

Mr. Kruse has a point.  But recall that Scully gave her son up for adoption to a “Christian couple in Wyoming,” and the fact the couple was religious was portrayed as … [Read More]

Posted by Tom Piatak on July 23, 2008
Re: America -- A Third World Nation

My my...the Eugenics Department really got their chaps in a twist over this one. I really liked the suggestion that Polk went to war against Mexico to “protect” po lil ole … [Read More]

Posted by Dirk W. Sabin on July 23, 2008
Re: America -- A Third World Nation

@ Justin Your original intent was that the American elite is just as venal and corrupt as the Third Worlders our leaders chastise, which I totally agree with. I just don’t … [Read More]

Posted by El Lay Writer on July 23, 2008