There is much talk about "the talk." "Sean O’Reilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black parents give their teenage sons," Denisa R. Superville of the Hackensack (NJ) Record tells us. Meanwhile, down in Atlanta: "Her sons were 12 and 8 when Marlyn Tillman realized it was time ...

London Mayor Boris Johnson spoke the other day about the riots that devastated London and other English cities last summer: The biggest shock for me from the riots was the sheer sense of nihilism"€”perhaps I should not have been shocked, but in my view literacy and numeracy are the best places ...

Obamacare, Romneycare, Ryancare...are you up to speed on this stuff? Don’t look at me. As I’ve already confessed in this space, health is a topic in which I have no interest. Forced to wait in a doctor’s office strewn with magazines titled Healthy Living, Men’s Health, Your ...

Here’s a cultural artifact of the minor sort: Issue Number 82 (July 1957) of Authentic Science Fiction, a monthly magazine of stories in that genre, 128 pages, sparsely illustrated. You can get anything on the Internet nowadays. I got my copy from an Australian website while randomly ...

I’ll admit it: I was apprehensive about the chemo. Some decades ago a female relative of mine"€”not long married, infant daughter"€”was diagnosed with cancer and subjected to the treatments of the time, both radiology and chemotherapy. The results were appalling. She lost her hair; her ...

Having recently enthused about Pat Buchanan’s latest book and then about the man himself here on Taki's Mag, please forgive me one more column about him. His firing from MSNBC official at last, Pat recorded an interview with Juan Williams the other day for the Fox Latino website. If your ...

If you hang out at dissident-right websites you surely know the Berthold Brecht quote: “Would it not be easier...for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?” This is offered on those websites"€”I mean to say, on those shameful digital cesspools that no decent-minded ...

Call me naïve, but the left's coarse brutishness still shocks me. The only thing that shocks me more is the right's suicidal cowardice. Here’s a sample of the first. The topic is CPAC, last weekend’s gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference, in particular a panel ...

Has Pat Buchanan been fired from MSNBC, or hasn’t he? He hasn’t been seen on the channel since October, when his last book came out. (I reviewed it for Taki’s Mag here.) MSNBC president Phil Griffin said a month ago that Pat was being kept off the air because of things Griffin found ...

A lady recently asked Barack Obama why the government is issuing and extending H-1B visas—that is, guest-worker visas for any occupation “which requires the theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge,” to quote the State Department website. I ...