Travel
An American’s Guide to Moving to AustraliaApril 13, 2010 In spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of … |
Mental Health
Paging Dr. HouseMarch 29, 2010 Once, in the years B. D. (Before Deinstitutionalization), Australia’s mental |
Haiti
Heartbreak HotelJanuary 26, 2010 In 1935, British journalist James Agate admitted to obsession with a juicy but |
That’s Professor Ozzy Osbourne to You!November 07, 2009 It |
A Campus CorrigendumApril 08, 2009 A compatriot of mine, and a regular Takimag reader, has written to me to point |
Torture
My Short Happy Life As a Knowledge Management DroneApril 02, 2009 This story (the title of which alludes to Jessica Mitford’s October 1974 |
MediaThe Hoax Down UnderJanuary 12, 2009 Say what you like against us Australians, there is one activity where we excel, |
Orwell on ObamaNovember 06, 2008 While post-poll recriminations fly and whizz like bullets among the various |
WorldThe Diversity Meltdown Down UnderOctober 29, 2008 Karen De Coster’s article on “The Standard of Living Bubble” leaves open, |
Takimag Classic20th Century Music—What Went Wrong?October 02, 2008 The tale is told by M. F. Barnes, in her 1931 study Renaissance Vistas (and it |
Remembrance
Sam Francis & MeSeptember 08, 2008 You have no idea what joy lies in discovering that there is another human being |
MediaBuchanan & Lukacs—Getting PersonalJune 02, 2008 May I, even at this late stage of the John Lukacs controversy, offer a few |
The Customer is Always WrongFebruary 06, 2008 What is lacking in Peter Gay's account of modern art is a serious effort (or any effort) |
The Death of Music by the Spirit of Government SubsidiesJanuary 26, 2008 Clearly something went horribly wrong with classical music in or shortly after 1945, |
Did I Kill Robert Lowell?September 25, 2007 I knew nothing of Lowell. I knew nothing of poetry, other than the sub rosa collection of |
Confessions of an Australian OrganistAugust 07, 2007 There’s no limit to what troublemaking choristers can achieve. I have been present when |
Falstaff in a FedoraAugust 05, 2007 If Taki were a singer, he would be George Melly. Alas, if Taki were George Melly, he |
Un-Killing Whitey: The Achievement of Sam FrancisMay 15, 2007 To those of us who knew and respected for years the journalism of Samuel Francis |
Britain in the Ashtray: Notes on a ScandalMarch 20, 2007 There is no reason to suppose that this film's near-perfect depiction of nihilism |