Rule by Left-Wing Lunatics

A governing principle of the Democratic Party is to ask, "Who is in the dock?" before deciding whether to enforce the law. As we have seen throughout the last year of antifa/BLM riots, in blue states, it's now legal to ...

One Foot in the Bunker

It was a bad night for Boris. Emmy award-winning composer Boris Zelkin (also known as the conservative pundit "€œLenin's Barber"€) and I had just engaged in a valiant online battle against GOP feeblemindedness, and ...

The Days of White Linen Suits and Panama Hats

A Greek football team has been warned it will be kicked off the field if its players wear uniforms advertising its two new sponsors. The shirts have been bright pink since the team was founded and bear the names of local ...

Anomie en Masse

I love those sweet, fleeting moments of near-lucidity when the janitors at the mainstream pop-culture echo chamber almost manage to notice how annoying the echo is. Full disclosure: A decade ago I briefly crossed paths ...

Harvey Weinstein and Taki

The Harvey and I

Here’s a question for you: Could the “monster” of the #MeToo movement get a fair trial anywhere in these United States? Is there a potential jury member who has not made up their mind that Harvey Weinstein raped, ...

Is Mass Civil Disobedience Our Future?

On the holiday set aside in 2020 to honor Martin Luther King, the premier advocate of nonviolent Gandhian civil disobedience, thousands of gun owners gathered in Richmond to petition peacefully for their rights. King had ...

Palmyra, Syria

Our Next Mideast War—Syria

Jeb Bush has spent the week debating with himself over whether he would have started the war his brother launched on Iraq. When he figures it out, hopefully, our would-be president will focus in on the campaign to drag us ...

Long Live the Pugs

I was going through my paces in Hyde Park, sweating out the booze, raising the heartbeat with short wind sprints, keeping my mind off the weekend’s debauchery and the ensuing Karamazovian hangover. I then sat down on a ...

Summer Love

The only true love is summer love, as the saying by Giacomo Casanova goes. Actually it’s mine, as the Venetian was too slick to differentiate between love seasons. The reason I find summer love the truest is because it ...

Ed Harris and Colin Farrell in <i>The Way Back</i>

The Way Back: Hollywood Discovers the Gulags

To be Oscar-eligible, a movie had to have played for one week last year in Southern California. Last Christmas, I had looked forward to heading down to the ArcLight on Sunset Boulevard to a see The Way Back, a modest epic ...

Bertrand Cantat

From the Cell to the Stage

Concerts by a singer called Bertrand Cantat in Paris were canceled recently because the organizers said they could not guarantee the maintenance of public order at them. Whether this was a pretext will never be known, ...

Yanking the Lever in Sin City

Las Vegas is the the most inorganic of all American cities. Surrounded by a dry, dusty, prehistoric landscape, this town was conjured from nothingness by the Mob not very long ago. Vegas hosts such sleazy, high-rolling ...

The Democrats Divide on Impeachment

The release of the Mueller report has left Democrats in a dilemma. For consider what Robert Mueller concluded after two years of investigation. Candidate Donald Trump did not conspire or collude with the Russians to ...

Warren G. Harding

A Tale of Two Presidents

ATHENS—With energy bordering on the demonic I strut around an ancient stadium trying to make up for the debauchery of the past two weeks in Patmos. Alexandra has flown back to Gstaad and I’m staying with my oldest ...

President Barack Obama

Impeachment, a Bridge Too Far

Increasingly, across this city, the “I” word is being heard. Impeachment is being brought up by Republicans outraged over Barack Obama’s usurpations of power and unilateral rewriting of laws. And Obama is ...

Tinsley Mortimer

Tinsleytown

Judging from last week's comments, there are not many Kardashian fans here on Taki's Mag. Though the fuss was to be expected from our highbrow readership, every rag needs a gossip column. Sure, we could cover the upper ...

Lindsay Lohan

Parties and Massacres

The horror at Newtown, Connecticut put a damper on the unending end-of-year parties. That includes my own Christmas blast at the Boom Boom Room in honor of Lindsay Lohan and some of the Big Bagel’s prettiest girls. At ...

Nothing Is Safe From Resentment

The grim corollary of what I have called human nature’s difficult need for esteem is that nothing is safe from resentment. For so vital is human pride, and so powerful our concomitant urge to be esteemed by others, that ...

Once Upon a Time on the Riviera

A recent libel case won by Lady Moore, wife of Sir Roger Moore of James Bond fame, called for my testimony in London, and for once I was happy to oblige. Roger Moore is a friend of very long standing, as is his son ...

The Tory Taboo

The great lie by Leavers before the referendum was that there would be no losers as a result of Brexit. But here’s a bigger twist to the story: There will be no winners, either. No one will gain anything from Brexit ...

Palm Beach Bath & Tennis Club

Nouveau Retch

"€œSummertime, and the livin"€™ is easy,"€ as the song tells us. Or it used to be, as my father complained when confronted on his boat by the "€œvacances payées,"€ the socialist French system that ensured all ...

Has the Bell Begun to Toll for the GOP?

Among the more controversial chapters in Suicide of a Superpower, my book published last fall, was the one titled, “The End of White America.” It dealt with the demographic decline of the white majority and ...

Trump Fuels a Tribal War in Nancy’s House

President Donald Trump's playground taunt Sunday that "the Squad" of four new radical liberal House Democrats, all women of color, should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they ...


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