A New Breed of Breeder

Harris, W. C. Slouching Towards Gaytheism: Christianity and Queer Survival in America. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014. 277pp. W. C. Harris is a radical gay ...

Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay

All Phonies Great and Small

GSTAAD—Except for the hovering of helicopters overhead carrying great slabs of rock or timber, the constant whirring of cranes and cement mixers, and the roar of trucks, the ...

Goodnight, Little Jim

In his column the other day, Pat Buchanan quoted the last lines of Robert Southey’s poem ‘The Battle of Blenheim”: "€œBut what good came of it at last?"€ ...

The Shame Sham

Like all societies before it, our society considers nothing more shameful than to be shameless. Thus, the Internet"€”which binds our society together like cheese binds a ...

Pastor Fred Phelps

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Wasteful, Disgraceful, and Distasteful Headlines DEATH OF A HOMO-HATING LION Westboro Baptist Church Pastor Fred “God Hates Fags” Phelps, perhaps ...

Entertainment Surfeit Disorder

The only time I regret not being much richer than I am is when I receive through the post (as I did yesterday) the catalogue of an antiquarian bookseller. Otherwise, I am more or ...

REPARATIONS!

Any firms of human rights lawyers keen to take up my case may contact me through Taki's ...

Six Hours With a Hasid

Though Malaysia Airlines flights have a tendency to get lost, American Airlines is infinitely reliable, and the business class on their new A319s feels like you"€™re sitting in ...

Paddy Macklin

A True Hero With Long-Term Courage

On July 1, 1961, a beautiful 17-year-old girl appeared on the cover of Paris Match, back then in its heyday: “C’est une deb,” announced the cover, the ...

What Hatewatchers Hate

I see I have once again made the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch Headlines. They link to RightWingWatch.org, who caught me hatefully spewing hateful hatefulness in an ...

Race, Realism, and Race Realists

“Race realists,” as they call themselves, very much want to think that Latin Americans are inherently stupid. The idea appeals to me. As a curmudgeon, I like to ...

No Light at the End of the Cosmos

There is no magic in the new Cosmos"€”no angels or demons, no dragons in Eden, just cold dust and burning gas viewed through rose-colored glasses. No creator gods dominate the ...

In Defense of Libertarian Brutalism

“[L]ibertarians can generally be divided into two camps: humanitarians and brutalists.” That’s Jeffrey A. Tucker’s provocative proposition in a widely ...

31 Flavors of Fascism

I"€™ve been called a fascist roughly six million times, and though I feel it's an inaccurate description of my beliefs and temperament, I can see how people might get that ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Abominable, Improbable, and Unconscionable Headlines IT’S HARD OUT HERE FOR AN ASPIRING RAPPER Although one can’t swing a baseball bat these ...

The Difference Between Firmness and Cruelty

A story that appeared recently in Libération, the left-wing French newspaper in financial difficulty, seemed to me to capture the spirit of our times very well. It concerned an ...


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