Arnold Schwarzenegger

The Trumpbart Primary

I was gonna open this column with “One of the questions I’m frequently asked about the Holocaust,” but that would’ve been dishonest. I’m never asked questions about the Holocaust. Oh, I hear from Holocaust ...

Bury My Heart at Wounded Negro

On Monday, the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court upheld a voter-approved constitutional amendment that revoked tribal membership for the so-called Cherokee Freedmen, the modern descendants of black slaves whom Cherokee ...

More Questions Than Answers

Dancing around an unpleasant reality is what politics are all about nowadays"€”Donald Trump excluded"€”with political correctness the enveloping cloud that hides truth and the facts. There are boundaries that are set by ...

Yale University

Are Facts White Nationalist?

I gather it would be proof positive of "white nationalism" to point out that the only group discriminated against in college admissions is white people. We've heard a lot about discrimination against Asians lately, which ...

The Great Machete Meta-Joke Fail

After the Euro-ennui of The American last week, Robert Rodriguez's Machete sounded pretty entertaining: heroic illegal immigrants driving bouncing lowrider cars slaughter the evil white Americans holed up in a modern Alamo. ...

Contact Highs, Abstract Lows

If racism is the only thing that could possibly account for the problems of blacks in 2021, shouldn’t their troubles be declining steadily? After all, the effects of redlining (outlawed in 1968) and the other usual ...

The English Way of Cancer

Is there a less useful word in the English language than "€œsuddenly"€? I mean, doesn"€™t everything happen "€œsuddenly,"€ depending on when you start your timer? It's like my doctor fretting about my possibly ...

Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, and North West

The Barnacle Racket

America and Western Europe sure have their priorities right, with newsworthy items blanketing newspapers and magazines while the airwaves reflect our culture. For example, it seems that the April cover of Vogue Magazine, ...

Maxims for Life, an Antidote to Hope: Part One

Jordan Peterson has published a popular new book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, and the man is traveling the world to discuss it. He has even brought his antidote to America, as if our leading philosophers—Bill ...

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Arched, Starched, and Parched Headlines THE GREAT NETFLIX PRANCE-OUT When BLM sacked L.A. last year, the “peaceful protesters” focused on the wealthy Westside. It made sense; upscale territory filled ...

Major General Qassem Soleimani

The Week That Perished

We suggest they rename it Suck My Dixie Highway and deal with Florida’s innumerable real-life ...

St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York

‘Times’ Up

The following was recently but ecstatically pronounced by the malignant, anti-white, anti-Christian, and anti-male New York Times: “Perhaps for the first time since the United States was established, a majority of young ...

Feet of Clay Stamping on a Human Face

In last week’s column, after months of being stonewalled I finally confronted one of the authors of a “scientific study” that purported to prove that last summer’s BLM riots actually made the Covid pandemic better. ...

Bigstock

A Dream Wedding…for the Tabloids

The Brits are big on weddings, and Pippa is getting hitched sometime this autumn, or maybe later on, when the English weather is at its best. If any Takimag readers are not familiar with Pippa, she's the sister of the ...

Put the Grandkids in Charge

As everyone knows, the definition of serendipity is searching for a needle in a haystack, and instead finding a farmer’s daughter. Not so fast, as they say. I live among farmers and haystacks up here in the Alps, and ...

Nathan Bedford Forrest

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Dreadful, Fretful, and Regretful Headlines GAY ACTIVIST FAKES HIS OWN ABDUCTION Adam Hoover has been a vocal"€”or, if you prefer, shrill"€”gay-rights activist in Ohio since before he was legally an ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Political, Hypocritical, and Sodomitical Headlines WILD IN THE STREETS Police and antigovernment protesters clashed on streets across the globe last week. In all instances except one, the police ...

“Party of Lincoln” Assassinates Itself

Man, have we got a bunch of dullards on the “mainstream” right. Michael Bloomberg’s old speeches and interviews about the realities of race, crime, and law enforcement are spot-on. And how do our Conservative Inc. ...

Hiding Behind Psychobabble

There was a very curious letter to the editor in the latest edition of the English monthly magazine The Critic. It was from a correspondent who defended the type of architecture known as brutalist, that is to say of ...

Land of the Free, My Arse!

NEW YORK—The fact that a sailor on leave cannot whistle at a pretty girl’s legs is scientific proof that America is beyond help and finished for good. That also goes for hard hats, who along with sailors were among the ...

In What Contexts Should Difficult Truths Be Told?

“Telling difficult truths,” Michael Mosbacher’s article published in Standpoint magazine on May 30, provides a good occasion for considering the value of the public-private distinction. Today that value is threatened ...

Robert Mugabe

The Week That Perished

Apparently Charles M. Schulz’s corpse didn’t learn anything from our bold ...

Annoying Encumbrances

Yesterday a young man asked me to recommend a must-read book, the one that meant the most to me. My answer to that question hasn"€™t changed since it was published in 1988: Solitude by Anthony Storr. I"€™ve never ...

Big Man on Campus

Charlottesville is an enchanting Virginia college town graced by the neoclassical architecture of the university’s founder, Thomas Jefferson. I flew there with two friends, the talented photographer Jonathan Becker and ...


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