I Love You, Ann Coulter

Perhaps I sounded too needy "€” women hate ...

Genes and Smarts

A couple of months ago here on Taki’s Mag I reviewed responses to geek website edge.org‘s Annual Question. The 2013 question was: What should we be worried about? The leadoff answer was from evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller, who thought we should be worried about Chinese ...

Ruins of Detroit

Bestiality, Cannibalism, Royal Gastroenteritis, and A Gamy Ex-Dictator

The aristocratic class can do pretty much as they please, without fear of penalty or ...

Plus ça Change…

Nelson Mandela is home from the hospital. The guy is 94 years old and not in bad shape"€”perhaps illustrating the black-white mortality crossover. Mandela and I go back a long way. When I started my university education in the fall of 1963, the Student Union at my college was dominated by a ...

Insular Concerns and the World Outside

Does a young woman really need general anesthetic for a teeth ...

Quarterly Potpourri

It's been three months: time for another potpourri of unrelated items. Assholes. To make up for not reading half as many books as I’d like to, I read about books. An excellent resource is the London Literary Review, of which I remain a faithful subscriber notwithstanding the fact that the ...

The Beer, Baccy and Crumpets Party

Mighty Oaks From Little Acorns

If you want to express the furthest extreme of loathing and disgust you can double down, putting the two words together to make ...

Women Spoiling Men’s Fun

The war between the sexes is fought on many fronts, some of them very far away. There’s a report from one of those fronts in the January 2013 issue of The China Journal. The writer is Katherine A. Mason, billed as “Lecturer in Health and Societies in the Department of History and ...

Horseburgers and Other Miscellany

Horseburgers "”€ Sequester this! "”€ Biden gets his gun "”€ News from Airstrip One "”€ B-list murder "”€ Maker’s Mark marks down "”€ Fly the flatulent skies "”€ Larry Auster ...

The Book: An Elegy

I"€™m nine months out of chemotherapy and getting back up to speed now. I started reviewing books again: just did Roger Scruton’s latest for the upcoming American Spectator, a couple on different topics for future issues of The New Criterion, and the new Coolidge biography for VDARE.com ...