But of our work, the work of our order and in particular the work of this monastery, a part"indeed, the substance"is study, and the preservation of knowledge. Preservation ...
Clint Eastwood's Iraq war drama, American Sniper, reminds me that the central frustration of being a film critic is that there isn"t much opportunity to be a tastemaker, ...
Last night the streetlights in my pleasant little English market town were switched off at midnight. In fact they"ve been switching them off at midnight for two months, but ...
As if the country weren"t full of enough petulant, overgrown children. President Obama's new proposal to offer "free" community college for two years to anyone ...
In July of 1870, King Wilhelm sent Foreign Minister Bismarck an account of his meeting with a French envoy who had demanded that the king renounce any Hohenzollern claim to the ...
The average American family buys one or two presents for their kids and leaves the rest up to Santa. An informal survey I did among friends and coworkers comes up with 10% bought ...
Despite what basic common sense would dictate, we are repeatedly spoon-fed the mantra that we live in a "rape culture." And despite ample evidence to the contrary, we are ...
Last week, we learned Sony Pictures had been hacked and millions of people were downloading movies still in theaters. Sony seems to think North Korea may be behind it all, as ...
Life is full of little ironies, one of them in my case being that I have more time than ever before, now that I have retired from practice, to read medical journals. I find the ...
I suppose that since I find Lena Dunham to be a disgustingly entitled pig monster, I am a sexist, a fat-shamer, and, hell, even an anti-Semite. None of this changes the fact that ...
I maintain some vestigial links to the old country. Among them is the inclusion of the London Daily Telegraph in my morning trawl through the online news. It's sheer ...
Oh, great: another Canadian Muslim on a rampage. Don"t worry, I don"t mean that some self-styled Islamic terrorist is killing our men in uniform again. That was last ...
One of the reasons I read the liberal newspapers when I am in Britain"apart from the fact that they are the best"is that they irritate me so by their smug ...
Last week I looked at the multiple ironies of the young Barack Obama's dismissive 1994 review of The Bell Curve. Today, 20 years after the publication of Richard J. Herrnstein and ...
Have you heard that big, bad Amazon is destroying the book industry? To be more accurate, they"re plowing the major publishers under: ah, nobility in tears. I"m not a fan ...
One evening back in the late 1980s, I returned to my then-apartment on Toronto's Dundonald Street and heard the unmistakable refrain of "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" ...
Subscribe to Taki's Magazine for an ad-free experience and help us stand against political correctness.
Join NowSign up to receive posts
