Kids These Days

Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State, has been sounding the alarm for years that the mental health of American young people is falling apart under the influence of smartphones and social media. She’s ...

Jair Bolsonaro

What Doesn’t Stab You to Death Only Makes You Stronger

Last Thursday in the southeastern Brazilian city of Juiz de Fora, Jair Bolsonaro—variously described as “the most misogynistic, hateful elected official in the democratic world” and maybe even “the world’s ...

Heather Nauert

How Can THAT WOMAN Know Anything?

NEW YORK—The journalists are furious. (For those of you just tuning in, I don’t defame the reputations of real reporters and newsmen with the froufrou French word. I’m only talking about the posers.) As I say, ...

Is the Interventionists’ Era Over for Good?

President Donald Trump could have been more deft and diplomatic in how he engineered that immediate pullout from northeastern Syria. Yet that withdrawal was as inevitable as were its consequences. A thousand U.S. troops ...

The Difference Between Killing and Murder

Returning to London from Seville I see that abortion is once again one of the top news stories in what the Spanish still refer to as the Anglo-Saxon world: in the US, Ireland, and even Australia. Here in Britain we seem to ...

Just Another Fairytale Lesbian Blogger From Damascus

The eminently credible mainstream media was all aflame last Tuesday with reports that a prominent lesbian blogger in Syria had been captured by armed-and-hairy secret police who were none too pleased with her lesbian ...

Al Sharpton

No More Mr. White Guy

"They know the optics of 11 white men questioning Dr. Ford ... will be so harmful and so damaging to the GOP." -- Areva Martin, CNN legal analyst "They understand that you have all of these white men who would be ...

Bunky Mortimer’s Guide to Lifemanship

Seeing you’ve read this far, I’d better let you in on my secret. It’s called Lifemanship. Like all the best things, it is nearly impossible to define. It is an attitude that speaks to both our most gnawing existential ...

Budapest, Hungary

Under Siege, Under Scrutiny

"€œThis refugee flow has outraged the right wing,"€ Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executive director, explained in an interview with The New York Times. "€œIf you scratch the surface, why are they so upset? It's ...

Brian WIlliams

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Ominous, Ponderous, and Neo-Communist Headlines LYIN"€™ BRIAN WILLIAMS NBC, famous for deliberately editing George Zimmerman's 911 call to create the false impression that he targeted Trayvon Martin for ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Begging, Bootlegging, and Easter-Egging Headlines HOSTAGE NEGROTIATOR Mark Taylor might be the ballsiest lawyer ever; dude’s trying to score cash by purposely antagonizing black folks. Last September, ...

Straight Shooters

With mass shootings (such as the high school massacre in Oxford, Mich.) soaring and mass murders (such as the murder-by-car at the Christmas Parade in Waukesha, Wis.) back in the headlines, a new study by two Northeastern ...

Cesar Chavez

Little Cesar

Mostly since John Milton's Satan, we"€™ve perversely preferred our villains seductive: charming, witty, brilliant, and physically graceful"€”sometimes precariously more so than the tale's presumptive hero. Weren"€™t ...

A Narrow View of Things

Intellectuals are often shortsighted, failing to see what is before their very nose. Their object is to obscure the obvious and to make complex the simple, so that they are then needed to lead humanity away from its ...

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, 2016

Carpet Bomb

Pat Buckley would be spinning in her grave if she knew what has happened to the Met Gala she used to cohost with Blaine Trump. The benefit for the museum’s Costume Institute is now an orgy of vulgarity starring ...

Making Us Sikh

American media coverage of the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting often included primers on Sikhism, sidebars that would be considered superfluous up here in Canada. Though estimates vary wildly, both countries appear to have ...

Fuel for Thought

These days, everybody—by which I mean every person who considers himself intelligent and educated—must have an opinion about everything. It would be socially irresponsible, even antisocial, not to be able to opine on ...

Is Biden Ceding the Law-and-Order Issue?

Is Joe Biden forfeiting the law-and-order issue to Donald Trump? So it would seem. "Republicans Use Law and Order As Rallying Cry" was the top headline on The New York Times' front-page story on Vice President Mike ...

Silly’s Punctured Romance

One of my earliest articles for Taki‘s was called “The Week in Canadian Sex News!” It’s easier than you might think to wring 800 words (and even an exclamation point) out of such an unpromising ...

Central Park, New York

The Birds, the Bees, and the Big Apple

New York—Even after all these years, I’m still at times floored by the scale of the place. And it’s always the old reliables that stand out: the silvery arcs of the Chrysler Building; the wide avenues; the filigree of ...

Ben Bradlee

J.F.K.s Pimp

NEW YORK, N.Y.—This week fifty years ago saw the assassination of Robert Kennedy, a man I met a couple of times in the presence of Aristotle Onassis, whom some Brit clown writer once dubbed Bobby’s murderer. (Bad books ...

Chicago, Illinois

Life Imitates Arts Criticism

On August 31st, I extolled Clybourne Park (now playing at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre), Bruce Norris’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about white flight in 1959 and white gentrification in 2009. That same ...

Larry Ellison

When Hysteria and Hulkamania Run Wild

My old friend and onetime doubles partner Ray Moore has stepped down as chief executive of the Indian Wells Tennis Tournament for telling the truth. As Rod Liddle wrote in The Spectator a couple of weeks ago, “There is ...

Tony Benn

The Death of Two Left-Wing Idealists

Last week saw the passing of two prominent figures on the extreme left wing of British politics: Tony Benn and Bob Crow. Politicians of all persuasions have made the inevitable polite tributes to their memory. They were ...


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