At a Loss for Words
It's official"words no longer have meaning. As a proud member of society's educated, progressive elite, I"m thrilled. Since Bill Clinton famously disputed the definition of the singular third-person present form of ...
It's official"words no longer have meaning. As a proud member of society's educated, progressive elite, I"m thrilled. Since Bill Clinton famously disputed the definition of the singular third-person present form of ...
The Week’s Dumbest, Numbest, and Glummest Headlines TRUMP KEEPS CALLING PEOPLE DUMB It has been firmly established beyond the mildest whisper of a doubt that Donald Trump is the dumbest man who ever lived, despite the ...
With the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse under nightly siege from violent radicals, and Portland's police hard-pressed to protect it, President Trump sent in federal agents to secure the building. The reaction ...
Did you know that four percent of the US population—one in 25 of us—are now “cancer survivors”? This I read in TIME magazine’s current issue, whose cover story concerns what John Wayne called “the Big C.” That ...
GSTAAD—My annual end-of-year party in the Bagel was a bust. Too many people brought their friends and I ended up asking men and women to please leave my bedroom, especially my bathroom. I had some very pretty young things ...
With the World Cup starting this Sunday, I realized that after decades of complaining, I’ve finally made my peace with soccer. Like many Americans, I always felt that the world’s most popular sport was kind of lame. ...
In retrospect, I should have stolen S.E. Cupp’s drink. It was June 2010, and Friends of Abe, the Gary Sinise-led organization of Hollywood “conservatives,” was having its monthly beer blast in West L.A. A few ...
“Down with reason—up with feeling!” This sentimental motto might be the ruling principle of our failed democratic experiment. Where there is great wealth, there is usually decadence and foolishness, and since the ...
On board S/Y Puritan—I’m sailing off the charred eastern coast of Athens where so many died last week, and I remain suspicious as hell. Fifteen or so fires starting simultaneously smells of arson to me, and arson stinks ...
The Week's Most Unpleasant, Putrescent, and Adolescent Headlines NIPSTERS: MAKING HITLER HIP AGAIN If you"re a dedicated white nationalist who laments the fact that the left dominates the media, education, public ...
Eton College now stands just one apology away from being the first establishment institution to acknowledge that men and women are different. A bulk of government ministers, media pundits, financiers, royals, and academics ...
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 ...
Curiously, many nonfiction books these days are published without an index, despite Microsoft Word providing indexing. My guess is that because serious new books mostly intrigue other writers hoping to find their names ...
I suspect that I am of the last generation that ever considers writing anything by longhand. Indeed, there are reported to be places in America where children are no longer even taught longhand. Astonishing though it now ...
MARSHALL, Tex.—The most frightening thing about Jesse Duplantis is that I think he truly believes what he’s saying. I mean, at some deep, deep level, even a guy who wears a yellow plaid shirt under a navy blue blazer is ...
NEW YORK—The goddamn foreigners are trampling the tulips in Bollenstreek. Yes, that’s what I said. Amsterdam has decided to stop advertising itself as a tourist destination and to tell everyone to go elsewhere ...
I went last week to a production of Rigoletto, the revival of a production first staged in 2001. A criticism that I read in advance informed me that the initial orgy scene had been toned down somewhat by comparison with ...
Bill James, the baseball statistics analyst who has been one of the most revolutionary influences upon American sport and thought over the last generation, has now published a non-baseball book, Popular Crime: Reflections ...
As the story goes, Pauline Kael "couldn"t believe Nixon won in "72," as everyone she knew voted for McGovern. The quotation is probably spurious, but that makes it no less suitable as an epigraph for ...
“Hey, conservatives: I present to you a no-lose issue with broad-based appeal. Schools are teaching that biological sex doesn’t exist, ‘women’ are a social construct, and small children should be told they can swap ...
The Week's Most Petulant, Succulent, and Truculent Headlines CECIL THE LION ACCUSED OF FELINE PRIVILEGE When news broke last week that a popular Zimbabwean lion named Cecil had been fatally shot by a Minnesota dentist, the ...
When indolence becomes intolerable, remembrances of things past become a lifesaver. Charles Moore’s recent Spectator notes also helped; for example, his stories about the 94-year-old Lady Penn, who is the Queen of ...
The week after the murdering scum of ISIS beheaded 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya"their crime was being Christians"the European Commission opened an investigation of Christian schools in Britain for allegedly ...
A bunch of charlatans and clowns met in Athens, Greece, at the end of September and, to use an old Greek expression, managed to make a hole in the water. In other words, they accomplished nada, but they stuffed themselves ...
