Joseph Caillaux

World War I

By the time August rolls around there will be hundreds of books, thousands of articles, and millions of words spoken by mostly pompous people about who was responsible for ...

Ariel Sharon

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Malicious, Suspicious, and Injudicious Headlines THE LION (OF ISRAEL) SLEEPS TONIGHT After being in a coma that lasted longer than the Holocaust, former ...

King Juan Carlos of Spain

Euthanasia Without Discrimination

The temper of the times is often revealed by small details in newspapers, and that is why (I tell myself) I still read them, though it is common wisdom that they are on the path ...

Eric Holder

Gotta Get the Numbers Right

And while Eric Holder is certainly an exceptionally nasty piece of work, it wasn't he who cooked up the evil and innumerate Disparate Impact ...

Jodi Foster

A Click-Happy Hell on Earth

GSTAAD—Although no longer a regular habit, extended benders now turn me into a sort of magnetic field that picks up pearls as though they are iron filings. They are insightful ...

You Rang, Sir?

"€œThe first episode of Downton Abbey‘s fourth season was watched by 10.2 million people in the US on Sunday, a record for a series premiere on PBS.” So says the ...

Amber Tamblyn

Joy Is a State of Mind

Welcome, Mr. 2014. If you turn out as good as Mr. 2013 did, we"€™ll get along just fine. Throughout last year I got happier and happier. In fact, it keeps getting better and ...

The Pursuit of Racial Amity

Pondering the smoking ruins of American racial policy, I wonder whether it isn"€™t time to say publicly what many, if not most, of both races know: It isn"€™t working. It ...

PIV-negative

Let's get this out of the way first: "€œPIV"€ stands for "€œpenis in vagina."€ I was unfamiliar with the term until last week, and I usually pride myself on keeping up ...

Clay Aiken

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Vicious, Pernicious, and Seditious Headlines RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH A BANG Citizens across our wide and bounteously diverse globe celebrated the New ...

Bill de Blasio

Keep Smiling, Comrades

It was leftist triumphalism at its worst, seasoned with lavish helpings of racial ...

2013: The Most Racist Year Ever

Experts agree that 2013 was the most racist year since the one that started the Civil War. Everywhere you looked someone or something was being racist, even asparagus. Most of ...

The Year in Race

Look, it's no fun being the designated race reporter at Taki's Mag. When I joined the contributor list I ticked “opera critic” as my preferred slot on the masthead. ...

Alice Munro

2013: Reminiscences and Prognostications

"€™Tis the season of reminiscence and prognostication. Let's get the future out of the way first. I"€™ve made the same three predictions every January for the last thirty ...

Ethan Krupp

The 13 Most Annoying People of 2013

As someone who's offended by nothing but annoyed by everyone, I found no shortage of people this past year to stoke the angry embers of my irascible soul. Try as I may to shield ...

Alan Turing

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Acrimonious, Parsimonious, and Sanctimonious Headlines FEDS FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGE “KNOCKOUT” GAME Although incidents of the “knockout ...


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