Save Your Candles”€”the Dark Ages Are Coming!

Editor Richard Spencer has asked me"€”and indeed all the Takimag gang"€”to record our predictions for the coming year, but I have to say that I take this to mean he wants us to get our fingers moving and write ...

“€œYesterday’s Americans”€

To declare an interest, I should say that I have had some ancestors in this country, or more technically on this continent, for 370 years, one of whom helped found the town of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and most of the ...

Rendering Unto Caesar

At the request of the White House, Georgetown University covered up all the symbols in Gaston Hall, before the Great Man spoke, including IHS, the millennia-old monogram for the name of Jesus Christ. Ignatius of Loyola, ...

There is No “€œU”€ in “€œWinner”€

So there I was at the 21 Club, eating raw meat with The Gun Lady….    That was the best journalistic lede I ever wrote—and it never saw print. My editor at a second-tier business paper snipped it ...

Of Snobs and Slobs

People to the manor born simply do not disapprove of those born in lesser circumstances than themselves. To the contrary, a duke is much more at ease with his dustman than with a hedge fund vulgarian who tries to ape the ...

Pretense in Pittsburgh

As another G20 meeting rolls around, this time on home soil, the time comes once again for the economically curious but politically unconnected to wonder what is really happening behind closed doors. But while admiring the ...

The Varieties of Anaesthetic Experience

It was a balmy New England dawn, in that brief slice of the year when our clime is as mild as Malibu's and the pine trees bend in sweet obeisance to the breeze.... On such a day, a man of my years climbs from the coverlets ...

Destructive Ideas

Joe Biden and Donald Trump fight about everything. But they agree about one thing: tariffs, the subject of my new video. Trump imposed tariffs on steel, aluminum, washing machines, solar panels and other products from ...

Maxed Out

With much fanfare this week, Congress and the Administration began a series of actions designed to protect over-leveraged consumers from the high fees imposed by credit card lenders. As with most other initiatives devised ...

The Architecture of Perpetual War

Much has been written about the military industrial complex: its obscene cost overruns; the corrupt relations between the uniformed military, the contractors, and Congress; the wild threat inflation. Too little studied has ...

Is Driver’s Ed a Liberal Art?

Some immigrants assimilate more slowly than others. My best friend from childhood had parents from Abruzzi who lived in NYC for 40 years and never learned English"€”the need for it never arose. I guess I"€™m another ...

Bat Shed Crazy

A £100 million bat protection tunnel being built in the U.K. might be utterly pointless, except that it brings a wonderful new phrase into the English language: bat shed crazy. Beside half a mile of the already lunatic ...

The Origins of the Pod People

I have been slogging through Podhoretz's new manifesto, World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism. It's true that each new great eruption by Podhoretz adds nothing new to his canon, but rather marks his ongoing ...

At Last”€”A Real Patriotic Song for England

A brave, moving, entirely positive song about the need to love one's native land and culture--even if you happen, horror of horrors, to be descended from the people who brought the world parliamentary democracy, the Magna ...

Anti-Catholicism and the New York Times

“Anti-Catholicism,” said writer Peter Viereck, “is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.” It is “the deepest-held bias in the history of the American people,” said Arthur Schlesinger ...

Katyn and “€˜The Good War”€™

The decapitation of the Polish government last weekend, including President Lech Kaczynski and the military leadership, on that flight to Smolensk to commemorate the Katyn Massacre, brings to mind the terrible and tragic ...

Stop Baiting the Judts

No politician except for those wishing to retire immediately will risk the wrath of the Israel ...

There Will Be Full-Bloodedness

So ladies and gentlemen, if I say I am an Americanist you will agree. ~There Will Be Blood (modified)   A few days ago, I saw the original story that reported the remark of one Josh Fry of West Virginia, which has ...

Barack Hussein Obama’s Happy Muslim Rainbow Tour

"€œAs the Holy [sic!] Koran tells us, Be conscious of God and speak always the truth,"€ President Obama told his audience at the beginning of his much heralded speech in Cairo last week. It was a remarkable ...

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Scaremongers

Have you heard about the "bee-pocalypse?" My new video explains. Honeybees are dying! It's another environmental crisis we're supposed to worry about. The media call it "bee-pocalypse" and "bee-mageddon!" A YouTube ...

One More Failure

Benazir Bhutto may have been ruthless, conniving, and a “puppet of Pakistan’s military and security services,” as Leon Hadar argues in the January 2008 issue of Chronicles, but make no mistake: Her ...

Pius XII: Sourcing the Slanders

The whole horror of National Socialism is not concentrated in its nationalism, but in the combination of these two sterile and anti-human ideologies. Ironically enough, nationalism (unlike patriotism, of which it is the ...


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