Taki's Magazine

An Amicus Brief for Neville

by Patrick J. Buchanan

On Sept. 30, 1938, 70 years ago, Neville Chamberlain visited Adolf Hitler’s apartment...

Bear-Baiting Blowback

by Patrick J. Buchanan

Mikheil Saakashvili’s decision to use the opening of the Olympic Games to cover...

Here and There

by Justin Raimondo

Hypocrisy Watch —Okay, so Egypt is brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and...

For all the yammering by talk-radio nitwits and GOP chicken hawks about “supporting the troops,” it’s quite ironic that these same pundits and politicians have had little to say about the many high-ranking troops who support Obama’s decision to close Guantanamo Bay. Throughout, the Bush presidency, I made the point time and again that thanks to talk radio, being a “conservative” now meant never questioning your government so long as a Republican was in charge. To not support the president in a time of war was not only unpatriotic, but anti-military, we heard time and again. Last week these same pundits and politicians not only refused to support their president and his decision during a time of war, but on torture and Guantanamo Bay – they loudly and boldly opposed the military.

Iraq war

Andy’s List

by Justin Raimondo

Citing Rod Dreher’s list of abandoned certainties in the face of the Iraq disaster,...

National Bankruptcy

No Exit

by Peter Schiff

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Monday, and in congressional testimony later in the...

A Patriotic Thought Experiment

by Charles Glass

“I am going to teach [them] to elect good men.”—President Woodrow Wilson, referring...

Media

The End of Frum?

by Richard Spencer

David Frum has been purged off into the sunset at NR... He’s leaving his NRO blogging...

Bungle in the Jungle

by Werther

AFRICOM, the new Dept. of Defense initiative for that continent, represents a God-sent opportunity for both our major political parties to find new worlds to conquer. The GOP, being a subsidiary of Big Oil, is fairly licking its chops at West African oil.

Chained to a Corpse: John Howard and George Bush

by Nicholas Sanchez

Thanks to his tin ear on Iraq, Mr. Howard—a thoroughly competent and genuinely conservative public servant—has been forced into early retirement, and he’s not alone. Howard now joins league with other conservative foreign leaders given the boot because they chose to play along with America’s war games. To greet him on the lucrative lecture circuit for yesterday’s man will be his fellow COWs , Jose Maria Aznar Lopez (Spain’s former President, whose centre-right People’s Party was voted out in 2004) and Silvio Berlusconi (Italy’s past Prime Minister, whose centre-right Forza Italia party was voted out in 2006). The results for social conservatives in each country (for instance, opponents of gay “marriage” in Spain) have been catastrophic.

The Addams Family Chapel

by John Zmirak

If the Immaculate Conception is all about the liberation from death and decay, no one told that to the Capuchin friars of the parish in Rome named for this feast, Santa Maria della Concezione. This chapel attracts only discerning visitors because—hold onto your lunch—it is furnished entirely with human skeletons and skulls.