New York: The Movie
NEW YORK—Seeing Manhattan rising from the distance is always a treat. I am not sure it’s possible for anyone brought up around these parts to appreciate entirely what New York—the idea of New York—meant to us who came ...
NEW YORK—Seeing Manhattan rising from the distance is always a treat. I am not sure it’s possible for anyone brought up around these parts to appreciate entirely what New York—the idea of New York—meant to us who came ...
There is a story, very likely apocryphal, that shortly after Charles de Gaulle resigned France's presidency, he and his famously prim wife were entertaining some American guests at their country house. Not all the guests knew ...
The recent pillorying of John Derbyshire and Bob Weissberg after being accused of making tactless remarks about race recalled a question that's been bothering me for decades. Why should we think that race is the only ...
Sex and soldiers are the forces of life and death crashing into one another. It gets animalistic. It gets filmed. Luckily for me, the Ministry of Defence had decided to treat the British Army to single-man rooms by the time ...
Goodness, what a fuss! The topic here is of course my Taki’s Mag column of last week, which has brought me worldwide fame, though no doubt only for the proverbial fifteen minutes. The first and most essential thing ...
In The Odyssey, Theoclymenus asks of Telemachus, "Among men, who are you? Tell me also of your city and parents." Old-fashioned folks who haven’t been poisoned by the current age will ask similar questions. The ...
Welcome to Taki's Mag, all you do-gooders who"ve discovered us this past week! It's a big world, and there are people to save and hands to hold everywhere! Let us help all of you help everyone else! It"ll be like one ...
As the 40th anniversary of Watergate impends, we are to be bathed again in the great myth and morality play about the finest hour in all of American journalism. The myth? That two heroic young reporters at The Washington ...
As I type this from my heavily black neighborhood, I hark back to my wigger days and recall something that Chuck D from black-nationalist rap group Public Enemy said to me wearily when I interviewed him back in 1990: You tell ...
"What day did Jesus die on?" my friend asked. "It was on Christmas, right?" He wasn’t pulling my leg. We both grew up in a vipers’ tangle of Southern Baptist fundamentalism, but obviously he was ...
Dr. David Starkey is a great man, a Tudor historian, and one of the few academics who tells it like it is. Openly gay, he has no time for prancing queens and other such clown minorities trying to steal a bigger slice of the ...
March 28 saw a springtime ritual that rivals or even surpasses Easter in many Americans" hearts: The baseball season opened. Despite the many differences"real and imaginary"between LA and the rest of the country, ...
With the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer who was legally carrying a 9-millimeter handgun, the familiar wail has arisen from our cultural and media elite: America has too many ...
It seems all of the changes taking place these days are for the worse. I am hardly a Miss Havisham to say it would be better that some things"especially good hotels"remain unchanged. The Breakers at Palm Beach is the ...