The Week That Perished
If you live in Canada, you have our ...
If you live in Canada, you have our ...
The Christian holiday based on the birth of Jesus and made even more kid-friendly by Northern European folklore is upon us. The odds are pretty high you"re one of the nearly 100 million Americans who traveled to spend ...
Ironically, the most far-reaching scheme to rig this and future American elections isn"t being plotted in the Kremlin (as Hillary Clinton and the ruling media warn). Nor is it being hammered out in K Street offices by ...
It’s widely assumed in thriller movies that if ever the truth is allowed to leak out about a powerful institution’s fundamental corruption, then its reputation must come crashing down once and for all. But in real ...
I caught Ender’s Game last night and was quite surprised: The film subtly advocates for values of liberal governance. The plot centers around a gender-integrated, multicultural global military of wise children in a ...
From Daily Mail Online, September 8th: ...director Steve McQueen…is dividing viewers with a new film about the horrors of slavery….The movie, 12 Years a Slave, caused a sensation at the Toronto Film Festival ...
So there I was with my 17-year-old son, showing him how to change a wheel. I share a car with him, and one of the tires had gone flat overnight. Off with the hubcap, out with the jack. Loosen the lugs before raising the ...
Due to the vagaries of the lunar calendar, the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Dublin is either just past us or coming up in late April. In either case, today is a convenient occasion for trying to put Irish ...
Since May 25, 2020, America has crucified itself over a single statistic: Blacks are two to three times more likely to die at the hands of the police than are whites, making up 25 to 35 percent of police killings. In ...
A couple of psychiatrists appeared on CNN on Sunday to discuss the president, and their exchange serves as an apt reminder of why Americans, and conservatives in particular, should distrust these so-called mental health ...
It is hardly surprising that newspapers nowadays more and more resemble magazines that are produced weekly or monthly instead of daily. With modern technology they can hardly any longer be the first to break news; as their ...
As I predicted in my two previous Taki’s columns, the Trump administration offered to Democrats an extremely moderate and generous compromise immigration package. Trump proposed a path to citizenship for 1.8 million ...
Nineteen million dollars is quite a pretty penny for being called a fag. Hell, for a mere thousand semolians, we’ll do the best Rip Taylor impression you’ve ever ...
The current surge of Central American children and mothers across the border has made a travesty of the schmaltzy arguments long employed to rationalize the government's winking at illegal immigration. George W. Bush ...
"She made a show about how single career women could still have fulfilling lives, with the help of the powerful TV executive she was married to." My Facebook friend Tom Forsythe, besides being one helluva Muhammad ...
A few weeks ago I noticed the following slogan painted on the walls of a supermarket in France: Hitler, Sarko"même combat [Hitler, Sarkosy"same battle] One didn"t know whether to laugh, cry, be angry or ...
A small item in one of those free newspapers that end up on the seats of the world's subway systems caught my attention yesterday. It was in the Paris Métro; I read it while sitting next to an old schizophrenic lady who ...
Living as we do in a racist society that acts like white people are the greatest thing since sliced bread—even though everyone knows George Washington Carver invented sliced bread—we are often left with the impression ...
Is Salon.com the worst political commentary website on the Internet? I ask not as a snarky observer, but a genuine inquisitor. The webzine brands itself as a news outlet chock-full of hard-hitting analysis and ...
Last week California lawmakers shot down a proposal to declare May 26th “John Wayne Day” in honor of the iconic actor’s birthday. At issue were comments that “The Duke” had made in a May 1971 ...
The death last Friday of Robert Mugabe, the big man of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2017, is a reminder of the paradox that Africa, the most youthful continent, tends to be ruled by the old. When Mugabe was finally overthrown two ...
When 20-year-old Playboy centerfold Dorothy Stratten was raped, murdered, and mutilated by her estranged husband in 1980, she was adopted as a symbol of man's inhumanity to woman by germinal third wave feminists (who would ...
"The book that people are reading now," according to Lion of the Blogosophere, is Brynjolfsson and McAfee’s The Second Machine Age. I hastened to buy a copy and read it...so you don’t have to! The ...
Once the French had cleared out of Moscow in October 1812, special commissions were set up to investigate those who had played nice with the invaders. Only 22 people, all of them of foreign extraction, had failed to remain ...
