Race: Real and Surreal
I tried to go into the 2012 American Renaissance conference without prejudice, but it was difficult. I’ve been taught since childhood that whites can’t be white together without the streets running red with ...
I tried to go into the 2012 American Renaissance conference without prejudice, but it was difficult. I’ve been taught since childhood that whites can’t be white together without the streets running red with ...
Did you ever get the sense that half of the world sees a completely different world than you ...
After Pearl Harbor, FDR declared that his role of "Dr. New Deal" had been superseded, replaced by his new role, "Dr. Win the War." Tuesday, President Donald Trump signaled that, in the war on the coronavirus pandemic, he, ...
Dismissing President Donald Trump's claim that the 2020 election remains undecided, Joe Biden has begun to name his national security team. Right now, it looks Democratic establishment all the way. Antony Blinken, a ...
I returned recently to my house in France for a brief break. The weather was of the best—a cloudless sunny sky, warm and dry. It was almost perfect, but there was a fly in the ointment, the fly in the ointment being the ...
Sometimes seemingly insignificant events dramatically affect the course of human history. The failure of a struggling young artist named Adolf Hitler to pass a drawing test at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1907 changed ...
The Week's Most Bombastic, Sarcastic, and Iconoclastic Headlines THE MEXORCIST Although few will admit it, everyone secretly knows that Mexico is infested with demons. There are the drug gangs and the prostitutes and the ...
Sometimes intelligent people say things that are so dumb, I wonder whom they are trying to please. In George Will’s latest diatribe, “Ron Paul, spoiler?,” he makes nice to those groups that have advanced his ...
Have you heard that big, bad Amazon is destroying the book industry? To be more accurate, they"re plowing the major publishers under: ah, nobility in tears. I"m not a fan of the sheer volume of garbage that's being ...
Gstaad—I had the rather subversive idea of offering a six-figure sum to Oriel College, Oxford. On one condition: that the college immediately terminate the Rhodes scholarship for the South African Ntokozo Qwabe, the ...
The Barclays Center in Brooklyn seats 19,000, and last Saturday it was packed with liberal idolaters eager to be enlightened by the great American sage Michelle Obama, who was there to promote her new book, Becoming. The ...
If Israel, as is universally believed and has not been denied, was behind the assassination of Iran's leading nuclear scientist, questions arise: Why would the Israelis kill him? And why would they do it now? The ...
In 1966, Bruce Lee threw himself (literally) into the role of Kato, the Green Hornet's sidekick, when he costarred in a TV series based on the Silver Age comic book. Alas, the show was canceled after one season. A prodigal ...
None of the words “Islam,” “Muslim,” or “Muhammed,” nor any of the variant spellings of the latter two, occur in the index to George H. Nash’s 1976 classic, The Conservative ...
Readers of Taki's Magazine must be itching for a bit of good news in the midst of all the rubbish being talked about the refugee crisis in Europe. Well, here it is: Australian prime minister Tony Abbott is now the first ...
Now that the British have voted to secede from the European Union and America has chosen a president who has never before held public office, the French appear to be following suit. In Sunday’s runoff to choose a ...
The Week’s Most Ailing, Failing, and Columbus-Sailing Headlines RAM-COM Journalist Chloe Angyal of Marie Claire holds “a Ph.D. in media studies with a focus on romantic comedy.” What are the odds she’s really ...
Two lovable mobsters in Cole Porter’s musical Kiss Me, Kate sing a song with the following refrain:Brush up your Shakespeare Start quoting him now. Brush up your Shakespeare And the girls you will wow. I’m ...
It has stepped into the pop culture spotlight via the HBO hit Succession, a hit job on the very rich and powerful produced by the very rich and much more powerful Adam McKay (The Big Short). McKay started off by doing a lot ...
The Week’s Most Mummering, Bummering, and Summering Headlines JUNETEENTH PICNIC: FREE KNUCKLE SAMMICHES! In the U.K., the day after Christmas is Boxing Day. In the U.S., the day after Juneteenth is Bagging Day, in which ...
The Week's Bloodiest, Muddiest, and Cruddiest Headlines THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE: A WHITE SUPREMACIST? White people in the Anglosphere are so mentally beaten down these days that they dare not make a peep about being white ...
Why aren't Republicans screaming from the rooftops about the Democrats' plans to change voting rules to give themselves an advantage? Their sleazy election bills, HR 1, the "For the People Act," and HR 4, the "John Lewis ...
I hate the Earth. Yeah, I hate all the other planets, too, but what I mean is: Nowadays, conservatives are supposed to pretend to care about stuff like equality and gay "marriage" and the poor and the ...
ONBOARD S/Y BUSHIDO—However you cut it, Greek demagogues are bluffing that the faceless suits of Brussels will give in to the blackmail and fold their hand. Greeks are born gamblers. The tragedy is that the same criminals ...
