Mind the Gap
President Obama recently offered up his solution to America's educational deficiencies, notably merit pay for teachers, more early childhood intervention and national standards, all topped off with the expected paean to ...
President Obama recently offered up his solution to America's educational deficiencies, notably merit pay for teachers, more early childhood intervention and national standards, all topped off with the expected paean to ...
NEW YORK—Election nights in the Bagel were always spent at 73 East 73rd Street, in Bill and Pat Buckley’s house, more often than not described as palatial by eager-to-please gossip columnists. In reality it was a ...
It seems that as more and more time goes by, my appreciation for the ingeniousness of our Founding Fathers elevates. I write this before knowing the outcome of the election. I sit behind a "veil of ignorance," with no ...
In most intellectual circles on the right, as well many in the center and on the left, it is fashionable to damn nationalism. Among conservatives, patriotism is held to be something almost always worthy of praise"though ...
“You have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk.” That was only part of the recent verbal attack mounted by Nigel Farage of the UK Independence Party on the new EU President, ...
The Fourth Amendment secures our right to be secure against unreasonable searches, right? Not anymore, explains Naomi Brockwell on her popular YouTube channel. In my new video, she explains how tech companies spy on us ...
States across the country are rediscovering and reasserting the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to ...
You are old when the world has moved on beyond anything that you can understand or sympathize with. I am not referring here to technical advances that only an infinitesimal proportion of the population can ever understand, ...
Fitch Ratings just downgraded the U.S. government's credit rating due in part to Congress's erosion in governance. Indeed, year after year, we see the same political theater unfold: last-minute deals, deficits and, all too ...
People in Washington love to debate threats. Which country or organization is the greatest danger to the United States? Is it Russia, with its massive nuclear arsenal and expansionist tendencies? Is it China, which seems ...
Last month saw the thirtieth anniversary of the death of one of my favorite conservative thinkers, Russell Kirk, back in April 1994. Very possibly Kirk enjoyed the process of passing away into another world, as his ...
Friday, deep into the 17th year of America's longest war, Taliban forces overran Ghazni, a provincial capital that sits on the highway from Kabul to Kandahar. The ferocity of the Taliban offensive brought U.S. advisers ...
Over in Great Britain, the House of Commons recently passed the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill which, among other things, keeps the time limit on abortions at twenty-four weeks (in spite a hope that it would be ...
Hitchens rejects the Soviet or "Stalinist" model (as do virtually all leftists today), and proposes instead that we fashion our enlightened "secular" state after the example of... Moorish Spain. Hitchens ...
Being an assortment of presidential endorsements, wild speculations, and cris de coeur by contributors to Taki's ...
“Do you think you could turn the volume down on that war game you’re playing so I can least pretend that you’re listening to me?” So my beloved asked, very sweetly, in her slight Dallas twang. What ...
A decade ago, activist Ron Unz conducted a study of the ethnic and religious composition of the student body at Harvard. Blacks and Hispanics, Unz found, were then being admitted to his alma mater in numbers approaching ...
All governments are monopolies of organized force, inherently unjustifiable. And once accepted, they are bound to get out of control sooner or later. No, there is no longer a Right or a Left. Bush’s mammoth expansion of ...
A thousand years hence, when they come with sieves and brushes to dig up the past, future archaeologists will no doubt discover the fingernails of Gordon Brown still left embedded in the doorframe to No 10 as he struggled ...
I hate to start the year with a horror story, but Takimag readers must be told of the hellhole where it took place: New York City, once upon a time the best place to live and have fun in, now accurately described as a ...
Germany’s future lies to its Right. Otto von Bismarck, Germany's prince of diplomacy, once remarked, "With France we shall never have peace; with Russia never the necessity for war, unless Liberal stupidities or ...
It appears that the White House has ordered the U.S. fleet to attack Iran in the event Iran takes action against any country in the region. An instant war trigger. No need for Congress to act. The me-too Democrats and the ...
Jonah Goldberg's critique of the Paul campaign " published in the dead-tree version of National Review -- is surprisingly respectful, but, alas, he gets several things wrong: heck, he gets just about everything wrong. ...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak arrived in Washington this week to press flesh with the president. In an interview, Mubarak told PBS television that Barack Obama's speech had shown him that "America is not against ...
