Type Over Hype

Calling the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator one of my hobbies isn"€™t entirely accurate; it would be like someone whose knowledge of cinema doesn"€™t extend beyond 1990s Hong Kong ...

Clint Eastwood

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Morose, Bellicose, and Grandiose Headlines CLINT EASTWOOD: "€œWE"€™RE REALLY IN A PUSSY GENERATION"€ In an interview with Esquire magazine, ...

Southpaw Prose

What is it with these baldies? I turned on the television last week and watched as the identical twin of E.T. asked a guest on Newsnight whether there should be a second ...

Enough With the Truthers Already!

In 2013, when I was "€œouted"€ for my Holocaust revisionist past, I understood that one of the unavoidable hassles of being forced to "€œrejoin"€ the revisionist fringe ...

Hotel Negresco, Nice

Glitz and Gore

The Negresco is a beautiful rococo belle epoque hotel built around the turn of the last century on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, south of France. Even by today's plebeian ...

Could the Last Lion Please Turn Out the Lights?

On assignment in other countries, David Frum would fish out likely friendlies in hotel bars by yelling, "€œIrv Weinstein!"€ Neither Frum nor I grew up in Buffalo, but their ...

Dinesh D’souza’s America

Dinesh D'souza is a funny little man who is actually of normal height but looks so unthreatening, you can"€™t help but think what a cute kid he must have been. You"€™d be ...

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Pugnacious, Rapacious, and Ungracious Headlines DNC IN PHILLY: WHITE PEOPLE TO THE BACK OF THE BUS Last week in the city where Mumia Abu-Jamal became a global ...

A Humble Plug for a Worthy Cause

Rosa Monckton is married to my old editor at The Spectator, Dominic Lawson, and they have two girls. Before I go on about them, Rosa was a close friend of Princess Di’s, and one ...

Beheading of St. John the Baptist on the baptistery from Benedetto Antelami. Parma, Italy

Killing Time

For reasons unnecessary to go into, I once found myself at a loose end for a few months on the island of Jersey in the English Channel. For something to do I went into the ...

Gene Kelly

Where There’s a Will

The difference between stereotypes and clichés is that stereotypes are mostly accurate, and clichés mostly aren"€™t. Oscar Wilde turned platitudes inside ...

University of Washington

Liabilities of Liberalism

"€œLiberalism,"€ James Burnham once wrote, "€œis the ideology of western suicide."€ Writers on the right find it fashionable to cite Burnham's decree. In an era when ...

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Spiteful, Frightful, and Inciteful Headlines CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS ON POLICE SHOOTINGS While America burns due to misguided rage inflamed by the myth that ...

Dwarfs on High

From my bedroom window I can see a little girl with blond pigtails riding her bicycle round and round for hours on end. She’s German, looks 10 years old and lives nearby. Next ...

Leslie Jones

I Ain”€™t Afraid of No Black Women

America is obsessed with keeping black women happy. The bigotry of low expectations is strong with the treatment of black men, but when it comes to they baby mommas, shit is off ...

The Tepid Trumper

I don"€™t like Donald Trump on the First Amendment, don"€™t trust him on the Second, and positively loathe him on eminent domain. I covered that here at Taki's in October ...


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