As I was stuck in New York’s Pennsylvania Station (“lead us not into Penn Station...”) waiting for a commuter train home and mooching vaguely around in the news outlet, the May 28 issue of New York magazine caught my eye. Michael Wolff's cover story concerns his aged and ...
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Partly because I can’t find any large issues in the news about which I have a thousand words to say...partly because my poor brain has been turned to bean curd by yet another"but, Apollo be praised, very likely final"session of chemotherapy...but mostly because IT’S MY COLUMN ...
I read a novel over the weekend. It was Ãmile Zola’s 1880 bestseller Nana. A few days previously I’d sat next to Tom Wolfe, the USA’s greatest living novelist, at a dinner and asked him about his own literary heroes. Zola was the first name he mentioned. I had never read a word ...
Which nation will own the 21st century? The leading candidates are the USA and China. Few people would admit any others into the competition, but I’d be a tad more careful. History takes some odd turns. Who in the year 612 AD would have prophesied that the 7th century would belong to the ...
Of all the comments I read during the brouhaha over my April 5th Taki's Mag column, one in particular stuck in my mind. I forgot to bookmark it and can’t recall where I read it, so I’m working from memory here. The gist was: Multiracial societies are so boring. People waste so much ...
There is a story, very likely apocryphal, that shortly after Charles de Gaulle resigned France's presidency, he and his famously prim wife were entertaining some American guests at their country house. Not all the guests knew French, so conversation was somewhat of a struggle. De Gaulle knew ...
Goodness, what a fuss! The topic here is of course my Taki’s Mag column of last week, which has brought me worldwide fame, though no doubt only for the proverbial fifteen minutes. The first and most essential thing to record here is heartfelt, down-on-my-knees-hugging-yours gratitude: ...
