The Rule of Law Has Been Lost

What is the greatest human achievement? Many would answer in terms of some architectural or engineering feat: The Great Pyramids, skyscrapers, a bridge span, or sending men to the moon. Others might say the subduing of some ...

Congress and Secrecy

You know this story. Congress cannot get its act together, again. It is facing a government shutdown by this Saturday, again. It has retreated to secrecy, again. It seems redundant and ridiculous to say “here we go ...

‘Just Say No!’ Pays Off

The polls and pundits are all in alignment now. The Republican Party is headed for a victory Tuesday to rival the biggest and best of those that the party has known in the lifetime of most Americans. In 1938, the GOP won ...

Solving for Y

The first time we spoke she walked past me, pointed at my feet without breaking her stride, and sternly said, "€œGood shoes."€ By the time I thought of something to say back she was on the other side of the building. ...

Capitol Hill Hos

I don’t know much about economics. What I do know is that so many so-called “experts,” including politicians and economists, are wrong far more often than they are right. They’re wrong about ...

Portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda by Alfred Cheney Johnston, 1923

The Top Two

I’ve been catching up on my reading of late, and here’s the one and only Papa Hemingway’s advice to writers: “Don’t let them suck you in to start writing about the proletariat, if you don’t come from the ...

Social Conservative Porn

One must be a person without discernible intelligence or conservative inclination to be allowed to write for the New York Times as a "€œconservative"€ columnist. Otherwise someone would not likely be picked to ...

Bête Noire

The dead and displaced now run into the millions, lawless ruination continues unabated in Zimbabwe. But, Morgan Tsvangirai, the president, and man Zimbabweans looked to for salvation, looks surprisingly pleased with ...

Britain’s Political Staycation: Foreign Affairs at Home

The problem with British history, said Salman Rushdie, is that so much of it happened abroad. By way of revision, we might say that the problem with British politics today is that all of it is happening abroad. In 1938, ...

Letters

Those Poor, Helpless Indian Savages The modern narrative of the noble savage does not mesh well with the idea of multiculturalism. The Comanches remind me of certain ethnic minorities that are committing the majority of ...

Southern With a Vengeance

I’m often asked where I got the name “Southern Avenger.” For starters, it was a rip-off of a popular 90’s conservative talk radio host named Ken Hamblin, who called himself the “Black ...

Where Are All These Jobs?

Let's suppose a business employed ten workers in June. Along came Barack Obama and huffed and puffed and blew six jobs away. Four employees now run a pared-down operation. The next round of retrenchments will invariably ...

The Kirk Wars Continue

The New Republic is about the last place anyone would look for a fair reading of traditionalist conservatism. The magazine's review pages are often outstanding, with such contributors as American historian Gordon S. Wood ...

Resurrecting Our Nation

As Christians around the world wait by the tomb, reenacting the vigil of the Blessed Virgin and the Apostles, we do our best to replicate their grief, and gratitude, and hope. Such efforts will shape the life of every ...

All Talk

Whenever I try to escape pop music relayed in public places at high volume—which is often, though considerably less often with success—the thought comes into my mind that the harnessing of electricity was a disaster, if ...

The Biden, Schumer, Romney Foreign Aid Budget Buster

President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and a handful of left-leaning Republicans (led by Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, of course) have just agreed to a near $100 billion foreign aid bill for Israel and ...

Dinner Bell for the Right’s Last Supper

In February 2007, 24-year-old paranoid schizophrenic Holocaust denier Eric Hunt had an idea: He’d kidnap Holocaust survivor/author Elie Wiesel and make him admit that the Holocaust never happened. Hunt tracked Wiesel to ...

The Right to Shirk

Stalin, who espoused the profound rationalism of a Constitution that made socially useful labour into universal law, lost out on Europe's scientific genius and therefore on world domination. So did Hitler, who espoused no ...

Donald Trump

Accolades for Acolytes

Welcome to Taki's Mag, all you do-gooders who"€™ve discovered us this past week! It's a big world, and there are people to save and hands to hold everywhere! Let us help all of you help everyone else! It"€™ll be like ...

Three Warnings About Election Season

As elections approach, sweeping generalizations have a certain allure that often energizes the frustrated and captivates the hopeful. However, it's essential that we as voters remember that things that seem too good to be ...

Poe and the Publicity Hounds of Hell

There is some evidence that Poe sporadically had more than just two drinks. What is less well known is that he had very low tolerance for alcohol and usually drank less in a year than the likes of Taki or I do in a week. ...


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