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An International Review

An International Review

In the years approximately 500 BC to 500 AD throughout the planet, various societies...

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The Calley Effect

The Calley Effect

I share my Taki colleagues’ dismay and disgust regarding the fly-by-night carnival...

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Three Flavors of Modern Anti-Americanism

Three Flavors of Modern Anti-Americanism

As I perused the program for the Philadelphia Society’s national meeting in April,...

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Wailing About Whales: The Myth of Interspecies Slavery

Wailing About Whales: The Myth of Interspecies Slavery

Slaving and whaling dominated New England shipping prior to the Civil War. When the...

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Silver Linings

Silver Linings

I am a pessimist, for reasons I have expatiated upon at book length. In that book’s...

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Ideology: A Waste of Time

Ideology: A Waste of Time

My executive editor at a Florida magazine, Hardy Burt, informed me at lunch one day,...

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Acting Foolish in Public…for Peace

Acting Foolish in Public…for Peace

Despite the fact that we’ve given peace several chances only to be repeatedly...

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Between Fox and the Foxhole

Between Fox and the Foxhole

Fox News invited me a few days ago to discuss Occupy Wall Street. Greg Gutfeld over at...

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The Golden Age of White Male Antisocial Media

The Golden Age of White Male Antisocial Media

Ever since Canadian English professor Marshall McLuhan coined the term “the medium is...

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Bilderbullshitting the Public

Bilderbullshitting the Public

From June 9-12, while the American media was focusing its cruel klieg lights on, oh,...

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War is Hell, But It’s Also War

War is Hell, But It’s Also War

The US has another public-relations nightmare on its hands in Afghanistan. One would...

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Girly Nation

Girly Nation

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, on hearing that a football game between the...

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The Virtue of Selective Mourning

The Virtue of Selective Mourning

Funny things happen when you write for the public prints. One of them is that...

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It’s That Man Again

It’s That Man Again

Adolf Hitler featured so repeatedly and tiresomely in the British newspapers during the...

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