High Drama at Haydn
Every year Joseph Haydn comes for a few days to the town in which I live when I"m in England. For about five days there are two concerts daily, and for me it is a great luxury to have a string quartet playing almost on my ...
Every year Joseph Haydn comes for a few days to the town in which I live when I"m in England. For about five days there are two concerts daily, and for me it is a great luxury to have a string quartet playing almost on my ...
I read this in an American newspaper (it was written by a woman who used to edit my copy for a New York glossy, but I will withhold her name to save her embarrassment and social atrophy): “He’s hosted Kim Kardashian and ...
As everyone with two brain cells to rub together is well aware, a tremendous amount of social injustice exists in this so-called world of ours. To rectify this unfortunate situation, many among us who are devoted to enforcing ...
Since 2008 the world has seen a good number of corporate catastrophes. So many, in fact, that a new subgenre of journalism called financial disaster tourism was invented by financial journalist and nonfiction author Michael ...
My Taki's columns have now officially killed twice as many people as Ted Kennedy's car. Last April, it was Günter Grass, then last week, Harper Lee. I didn"t ask for this extraordinary gift, nor do I control it, ...
The Week's Most Kinetic, Magnetic, and Epigenetic Headlines NATIONAL REVIEW POOPS ON TRUMP National Review magazine is a leading light of the American conservative movement widely known for firing writers the moment they say ...
The upcoming GOP primary donnybrook between the establishment right and the antiestablishment right has had a foreshadowing in Polish politics over the past dozen years in the war between Poland's two dominant parties, both ...
Is there a less useful word in the English language than "suddenly"? I mean, doesn"t everything happen "suddenly," depending on when you start your timer? It's like my doctor fretting about my possibly ...
This past Wednesday at 1:30 a.m. a Southern man who goes by the moniker "Saint Negro" tweeted, "We are doing the same thing Rosa Parks did," under a fake Twitter account called @Ammon_Bundy. Ammon is obviously ...
Last week we wrapped on the possibility that bitcoin (BTC) might be backed by gold or another asset class, although gold and BTC have a special affinity in that they are both "outlier" asset classes. Meaning ...
In the news and opinion business, late December and early January are the dead season as journalists go on vacation, leaving behind their canned top 10 lists for last year and forecasts for the new year. I"m not much of a ...
"Your kids will not know what money is," Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, told U.K. broadsheet The Daily Telegraph in November 2015, predicting that cash itself will disappear within a generation. To be precise: when today's ...
I average over 400 comments per day over on my iSteve blog on the Unz Review. One advantage of reading all of them is that ideas are dropped in my lap that I wouldn"t hear anywhere else. For example, after the San ...
“Buchanan, if you ever hear of a group getting together to stop X, be sure to put your money on X.” So, Richard Nixon told me half a century ago, after he had been badly burned in just such a futile and failed ...