Deep Thoughts
10 Things I Hate About LAIf my kids turned out to be gay, I’d say, “Oh great, there go my grandchildren”... |
High Life
Feminine Mystique, Feminine MistakesA nice package arrived by post just as I was going to ring a friend in London and... |
Derbtown
Mankind’s Collective PersonalitiesHere is an old Soviet-era joke, from the subgenre in which dimwitted peasant Khruschev... |
Scandal
Why Cyprus MattersCyprus is a small island in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Turkey and Syria. On... |
Cultural Caviar
The True Meaning of the V-WordWhat do people really mean by the word “vibrant?” Until the disco era, “vibrant” was... |
Public Nuisances
Nerds Behaving BadlyThe “microaggressions” website reads like comedy. It is pathetic and funny, yet it... |
Vile Bodies
Comedy for the DevilHad history veered off course ever so slightly, we’d mock evangelical Christians for... |
Politics
Who Killed the New Majority?The Republican National Committee has produced an “autopsy” on what went wrong in 2012,... |
Trending
The Irrational (Yet Perfectly Understandable) Nature of Blood VengeanceOn a sunny September afternoon when I was eight, I was standing on the concrete steps... |
The Take
Portrait of the WeekHOME NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced legislation requiring stores to hide... |
Bravery Hurts
Iraq: Ten Years AfterIt’s been ten years since the Iraq War was launched. Back then, a few prominent... |
South of the Border
Reconsidering PinochetWith the passing of Hugo Chávez, we got a lot of crocodile tears from liberals... |
High Life
Every Invented Paradise Soon Turns Into HellHe was a member of a charmed circle of Hellene and Philhellene intellectuals just... |
Derbtown
Genes and SmartsA couple of months ago here on Taki’s Mag I reviewed responses to geek website... |