The Week That Perished
The Week’s Most Hibernal, Nocturnal, and Sempiternal Headlines WAKE-OB’S LADDER In the wokeness ecosystem, one corrupt race-hustler springs forth from another, which sprung forth from another, which itself sprung forth ...
The Week’s Most Hibernal, Nocturnal, and Sempiternal Headlines WAKE-OB’S LADDER In the wokeness ecosystem, one corrupt race-hustler springs forth from another, which sprung forth from another, which itself sprung forth ...
About a year ago an Italian judge ordered me, as a condemned criminal, to perform 166 hours of unpaid "lavoro socialmente utile" (socially useful work). I kept putting it off until three weeks ago when I could put ...
On Friday, I was shocked like the rest of America to learn that Richard Nixon had been taped in the Oval Office subscribing to a stereotype: "The Irish can"t drink....Virtually every Irish I"ve known gets mean ...
Thirty years or so ago, I wrote an article about a mugging in New York's Central Park, one that today would have got me arrested for breaching PC rules, but back then was overlooked by the Ministry of Truth, its Gestapo ...
The Week’s Most Basking, Multitasking, and Unnecessarily Masking Headlines THE GU-GU MOLLS Welcome to the 2022 Winter Olympics, where athletes from around the world are mistreated by a bunch of inscrutable automatons ...
I first met Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor in the summer of 1977 in Corfu. I was onboard Gianni Agnelli’s boat, and the charismatic Fiat chairman asked me to go ashore and bring “a very smart Englishman whose ancient Greek is ...
The Horseman by Tim Pears is one of the best novels I"ve read in a long time. The first part of a projected trilogy, it is set in rural England before the 1914"18 war, and is partly the story of an inarticulate ...
"The peculiar essence of our financial system is an unprecedented trust between man and man; and when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may greatly hurt it, and a great accident may almost ...
In Seth Forman’s book American Obsession: Race and Conflict in the Age of Obama, there’s a section about the 2009 incident in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when major-league professional black guy Henry Louis Gates was ...
Sanford Levinson is very upset. As he sees it in his new book, the United States' founding document is clearly lacking and needs to be updated for the 21st century. What are the principles this new national Constitution is ...
The most colossally, tsunamically, head-explodingly stupid statement ever uttered on the subject of diversity was made by a military man. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey told George Stephanopoulos on live TV back in ...
Wow, the racial reckoning after George Floyd sure has gotten a lot of black people killed! According to the FBI, amid the extravaganza of violence following Floyd's death in 2020, an additional 2,400 black males and 405 ...
Friday, as the jury was being empaneled for the trial of fired police officer Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis City Council voted 13-0 to approve a record $27 million civil settlement with the family of George Floyd over his ...
NEW YORK—An English prof made an Earth-shattering discovery about ten years ago—there is a strong link between having money fall upon you and being happy. He didn’t win a Nobel for it, nor for his conclusion, which ...
When the bloated and declawed Las Vegas casino-money recipient Newt Gingrich had some fun recently over Mitt Romney's ability to speak a few words of French, Europeans took notice of this farce. The French are an angry ...
"My religion defines who I am. And I've been a practicing Catholic my whole life," said Vice President Joe Biden in 2012. "I accept my church's position on abortion as ... doctrine. Life begins at conception. ... I just ...
Turkey matters, for obvious reasons: its size (population: 80 million); its geographical position; its influence in the Middle East; its membership in NATO and the fact that it has the second-largest army in the alliance, ...
It's great that members of Congress have located specific legislative language permitting the president to build a border wall, but I'm wondering: Has anybody read the Constitution? It says: "The President shall be ...
Britain has yet to identify the assassin who tried to murder the double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England. But Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson knows who ordered the hit. “We think it ...
"This is a very sad time for our country. There is no joy in this," said Nancy Pelosi Saturday. "We must be somber. We must be prayerful. ... I'm heartbroken about it." Thus did the speaker profess her anguish -- just four ...
The Week’s Most Scrutinizing, Glutenizing, and Putinizing Headlines PUTIN OUT-TRUDEAUS TRUDEAU The “Trudeau Doctrine” is very simple: If there’s even one Nazi flag at a peaceful protest, the entire protest is Nazi ...
As May draws to a close, we’d like to set a good example by making public examples of parents who’ve made bad examples of themselves this past month. All right, let’s clarify that and say they allegedly made bad ...
I trust that some of my Takimag readers, following my writing as they do on Twitter, have read my recent appreciation for the Trump administration’s project of gay imperialism, published on Feb. 21 at Spectator USA. It ...
“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction” is Newton’s third law of physics. Its counterpart in geopolitics is “blowback,” when military action in one sphere produces an ...
