Ridding Myself of the Day
I read a novel over the weekend. It was Ãmile Zola’s 1880 bestseller Nana. A few days previously I’d sat next to Tom Wolfe, the USA’s greatest living novelist, at a dinner and asked him about his own ...
I read a novel over the weekend. It was Ãmile Zola’s 1880 bestseller Nana. A few days previously I’d sat next to Tom Wolfe, the USA’s greatest living novelist, at a dinner and asked him about his own ...
It was a bad weekend for Nicolas "The American in Paris" Sarkozy but a great weekend at the global box office for what the French sniffily call l"empire américain's hyperpuissance. Marvel's The Avengers, a ...
Judging from last week's comments, there are not many Kardashian fans here on Taki's Mag. Though the fuss was to be expected from our highbrow readership, every rag needs a gossip column. Sure, we could cover the upper crust ...
How Europe’s crisis resolves itself as yet remains unknown. But with Sunday’s returns from France and Greece, the mega-trends on the Old Continent are unmistakable. And for the European Union, they are ...
Which nation will own the 21st century? The leading candidates are the USA and China. Few people would admit any others into the competition, but I’d be a tad more careful. History takes some odd turns. Who in the year ...
Kall me krazy, but I love the Kardashians. This is Kardashian Week if there ever was one. The fab family just signed a $40-million deal with E! for three more years of their reality show Keeping Up With the ...
U.S. growth in the first quarter fell to 2.2 percent, a disappointment. But in Europe, that news would have caused general rejoicing. For consider the gathering crisis on the old continent. With negative growth now for six ...
I watched a Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate bring an evangelical crowd to their feet three years ago by announcing that "Owning a gun is a human right." I mumbled to myself: "So is protection from body ...
Of all the comments I read during the brouhaha over my April 5th Taki's Mag column, one in particular stuck in my mind. I forgot to bookmark it and can’t recall where I read it, so I’m working from memory here. The ...
The most intriguing gossip about Tiger Woods in a new tell-all book by his ex-swing coach is that at the height of his career in 2006-07, the world's highest-paid athlete seriously considered quitting golf to take up a ...
Canada's Human Rights Commissions (HRCs) are the bureaucrats who fined a comedian for heckling back at lesbian hecklers and persecuted a magazine that published the so-called "Muhammad cartoons." The HRCs" leftist ...
All the right people hate Ted Nugent. And when I say all the right people, naturally I mean all the left people. His pinko antagonists were screeching like freshly castrated mink at an overcrowded fur farm last week regarding ...
The modern age offers no refuge from the state. The world's habitable unpopulated regions are firmly under sovereign nations" regulation. There is still adventure to be had in the world, but there's no frontier, no place ...
Did life evolve by purely natural processes? Could random mutation and natural selection really generate the human brain or the electrosensory system of the duck-billed platypus? Or did an intelligent force shape our universe? ...