Back in 2014, I ended my Taki's review of Christopher Nolan's ambitious but imperfect Interstellar by suggesting that his blockbuster-every-two-years schedule was too rapid even for a writer-director of Nolan's talents. (Likewise, Nolan's 2012 Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises had also suffered ...
A little-known survey revealed the single most decisive reason Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton: White Democrats have drifted into ideological extremism over not regulating immigration. By way of background, a general problem in political science with using polls to track ideological trends ...
Remarkably, European solidarity, once the progressive cause par excellence, is increasingly viewed as hateful racism, as suggested by the conventional wisdom's berserk reaction to President Trump's speech last week in Warsaw in praise of the people of Poland and of the Western civilization of which ...
Peonage, in which workers are bound to their jobs by debts to their employers, is a traditional curse of Latin American cultures. Perhaps inevitably, as the United States merges demographically with Mexico, Latin-style economic arrangements have been reemerging in the United States. For example, ...
What's the worst college in America in terms of taking in kids from rich families and turning out young adults who, despite all their privileges, still won"t earn very much? By one way of counting, the biggest loser is Middlebury College in the Vermont ski country, site of the recent Charles ...
With America's 16-year-old war in Afghanistan back in the news as Defense Secretary James Mattis hints that he"ll be sending in perhaps 4,000 more U.S. troops, Brad Pitt's new movie on Netflix, War Machine, could be of interest. Pitt plays a lightly fictionalized version of "Obama's ...
The insightful blogger who goes by the moniker Spotted Toad has created a series of charts explaining the 2016 Electoral College results as a result of average home price in each state. The pattern is much the same as it has been in every election since 2000: In states where younger white people ...
The extraordinary decline in the cost of sequencing a whole human genome, from $10 million in 2008 to $1,400 by late 2015, means that in the coming years science will almost certainly be able to answer the Charles Murray question: Are some of the gaps in average IQ among the races at least partly ...
What if Charles Murray is right? What if some of the various racial gaps in cognitive performance are due to genetics? Would that be the end of the world? It is considered appropriate to hyperventilate as if you believe so. On the other hand, what if Murray is wrong and his best critic, James ...
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Increasingly, social-grievance jihadis are getting themselves worked up over casting decisions in movies, TV shows, plays, and even operas, labeling anything they disapprove of as "whitewashing." Granted, the number of beneficiaries of disputes over which celebrities will get which roles ...
