The Writing’s on the Wall
Walking around my rapidly crumbling hometown, I have recently begun noticing a series of stickers displayed prominently upon lampposts, walls, and bus stops, depicting a large golden cannabis leaf and QR code smartphone ...
Walking around my rapidly crumbling hometown, I have recently begun noticing a series of stickers displayed prominently upon lampposts, walls, and bus stops, depicting a large golden cannabis leaf and QR code smartphone ...
Jan. 6 hearings, Day 900: Nothing new. Apparently, White House counsel Pat Cipillone -- whom we've been hearing was the Rosetta stone to the whole case against Trump -- didn't back up the sainted White House aide Cassidy ...
I suppose it was the Almighty’s sense of humor to cover Western Europe with snow while those who flew into Dubai on private jets warned of planetary disasters due to fossil fuels. The United Nations climate conference is ...
I hate the Holocaust. There, I’ve said it. Somebody had to. Funny thing is, nobody likes the Holocaust. Except maybe the folks at the ADL and Wiesenthal Center who’ve made a bundle off it. But for everyone else, the ...
To understand what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's select committee investigation of the Capitol Hill events of Jan. 6 is all about, a good place to begin is with the sentencing hearing last week of Paul Hodgkins. A crane ...
If you were worried that liberals would tone down the apocalyptic rhetoric about Donald Trump after Saturday's assassination attempt -- He's an existential threat to democracy! a fascist! an aspiring dictator! an ...
When openly gay college student Matthew Shepard was targeted, tortured and murdered in 1998 the story made national headlines. Soon after, MTV sent a camera crew down to Charleston, South Carolina searching for a redneck or ...
As this piece is going up on 9/11, I thought I’d better do something about Islam. But first, as Monty Python (almost) used to say, for something completely different: Like Hot Chocolate, I’ll be starting with a ...
Following last week’s column on Alex Jones and his “boo-hoo the feds are after me” Crybaby Tour ’24, I heard from several readers (via my Substack) who slammed my sympathy for the parents who won the defamation ...
Merely three years after I revealed here in Taki’s Magazine that both the Ferguson Effect of the mid-2010s and the Floyd Effect of the 2020s had driven up not just homicides but also traffic fatalities, The New York Times ...
So much for the clear breezy uplands of history and science. Down in the rain forest of actual human society, Darwin has had a more mixed reception. Strict fundamentalists in all three of the big Abrahamic religions regard ...
It has been a common maxim for the past few thousand years to “seize the day.” I have never advocated this indulgent philosophy. Too often it results in giving away all one’s money, garnering either a disease or an ...
Kirsten Powers, the photogenic FOX News regular and New York Post syndicated columnist (who says neocon favorites can"t have it all?) has been fuming lately about the evil chauvinists who have been going after Sarah ...
The annoying thing about tear gas is that it doesn"t hit you all at once. They had used a smoke grenade before that and so you assumed it was just another one. You cough slightly at first, so slightly you don"t ...
“There is no art,” says King Duncan in Macbeth, “to find the mind’s construction in the face.” In other words, one cannot tell a person from his face. Well, one has to remember that not everything that ...
It looks as if Washington has fallen into another trap with Obama’s move on Libya. Yes, the Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi is a nutcase and a bloodstained dictator who deserves a merciless kick in the pants and to ...
The de Kooning show just closed at MoMA, and I just finished reading The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin. We are as obsessed with oil as de ...
The Affirmative Action Honor System The utility of Affirmative Action is that it allows affluent whites, who are never impacted by it, feel enlightened and even more superior to the lower class whites who are impacted by ...
Rampant crime is a major concern these days, but the GOP hasn’t profited from it. It’s puzzling why a topic that used to be a no-brainer for Republicans hasn’t yielded the electoral successes of the 1990s. Of course, ...
My wife and I lingered too long over lunch and missed our train from Nîmes to Paris; not by very much, not by more than thirty seconds in fact, but here really was an illustration of that old saw, that a miss is as good as ...
I hesitate, in this vale of tears, to bring before the public, however small it might be, my own personal travails, but at least I can claim to be an expert on them, insofar as I experience them myself. Many writers are ...
The anti-democratic methods President Obama’s union allies are using in Wisconsin testify to the crucial character of the battle being fought. Teachers have walked off in wildcat strikes, taking pupils with them. ...
Dear Gato, I"m mindful of the time we were rechristened. In Puerto Vallarta. The toothless soothsayer gave us sopa to drink that was foul-tasting and laced with mescal and some local psychedelic. She read your palm and ...
So apparently we"re all having another "national conversation" and "experiencing something together" as Egypt unravels. I resent these media characterizations, since a "conversation" implies ...
