I generally don’t care about the Middle East, but since no one ever seems to shut the fuck up about it for more than five minutes, I will state for the record that I think modern Israel was a bad idea from the get-go. ...
The energetic media tycoon Ezra Klein has a book out titled Why We’re Polarized. Spoiler alert: One reason is because too many people watch Fox News instead of reading Klein’s properties like Vox. Another cause is ...
At the Republican National Convention last week in Cleveland, none of the speakers used the phrase “white people.” Anti-racists, however, need to make EVERYTHING about race, so they made it about white people ...
I’ve figured out a way to quantify how Establishment news organizations manipulate the contents of our minds: just track the use of tendentious phrases over the years. Since 2016, there has been much talk of “fake ...
I was at the park with my daughter the other day and we started counting the people who were walking past while looking at their phones. The numbers skewed high because it was hipster Brooklyn and on a relatively empty ...
As the story goes, Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself with a jail bedsheet in the early morning hours of Saturday, August 10. Six days later, New York City’s medical examiner announced that the cause of death was suicide by ...
In the wake of Friday morning's bloodbath at a Colorado movie theater, America struggles to figure out who or what to blame. They"ve obviously ruled out the shooter. James Holmes, 24, will be arraigned in a Colorado ...
Why do so many immigrants come to America only to bitch about it? Well, I mean, apart from the obvious answer, which is that conditions here are far better than they were in the hellholes they were fleeing, plus they get ...
There is no one I hate more than someone who tries to tell me whom I hate. For a quarter-century now I’ve made it very clear that most of my hatred—and there’s quite a lot of it, I never run out—is intra-racial. ...
What if Charles Murray is right? What if some of the various racial gaps in cognitive performance are due to genetics? Would that be the end of the world? It is considered appropriate to hyperventilate as if you believe ...
The German chancellor is being celebrated for finally redeeming her subjects" innate Nazi bloodguilt by inviting into the European Union huge columns of helpless Syrian refugees. Or at least that's what you are ...
On Monday, the harried horny heretic Salman Rushdie told the BBC, “A book which was critical of Islam would be difficult to be published now.” Rushdie was talking about his controversial 1988 tome The Satanic ...
The major theme of my writing is guilt—how blaming others is maliciously used as a disabling mechanism and how people and cultures toss it around like a hot potato. No one, unless they’re masochists or are trying to ...
Let’s consider ourselves fortunate that Canada’s Somali settlers—the word “immigrant” is so 20th century—seem more or less content with killing each other. On the last day of July, the Edmonton Journal devoted ...
[Scene: A bakery store somewhere in the U.S.A.] Customer: "Good morning!" Store clerk: "Hello. How may I help you?" Customer: "Do you do wedding cakes?" Clerk: ...
A paradox of the current nationalist rebellion is how worldwide it is. Three years ago, I pointed out in Takimag in a column entitled "Nationalism Is a Blast": In 2014, the global winds are blowing in favor of ...
Most Americans now take it for granted that universal education is a good thing, including in particular “higher education.” To be sure, only about a quarter of American adults have a bachelor’s degree, but even so, ...
It's fun watching the pundits on CNN try to intellectualize the riots in Charlotte. They bounce stats around and wonder aloud if the protesters are more angry about 19th-century lynchings or 20th-century segregation. They ...
Being a crotchety old white racist and all, I don’t mind admitting that I thought Kanye West and Jay-Z were the same person until a week ago. It doesn’t help that both of these black hip-hop ...
The alt-right is having a moment. Hillary is bringing them up in speeches and everyone is talking about the frog. However, just as they"re gaining mainstream attention, they appear to be attacking anyone remotely left ...
I picked the wrong year to quit drinking. If you"ve never been to an old-school AA meeting, imagine Vince Lombardi's locker room if he"d been coaching Pilgrims with Tourette's: a spartan, Quaker-meeting setup, all ...
Conservative Party of Canada - 44.6% Liberal Party of Canada - 32.7% New Democratic Party - 13.1% Hey, you Americans are thinking, are those the results from last night's Canadian federal election? (That is, those ...
Goodness, what a fuss! The topic here is of course my Taki’s Mag column of last week, which has brought me worldwide fame, though no doubt only for the proverbial fifteen minutes. The first and most essential ...
Martin Scorsese is trending on Twitter for denouncing superhero movies as being more like theme parks than films because “Cinema is an art form that brings you the unexpected.” And yet the director’s The Irishman ...
