Keira Knightley

Anna Karenina: Sympathy for the Cuckold

Joe Wright first directed Keira Knightley in a decent remake of Pride and Prejudice in 2005. Two years later, Wright and Knightley almost hit the Academy Award jackpot with the ...

Joe DiMaggio

The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant

It was 1948, and the great Joe DiMaggio was injured most of the season. Tommy Henrich and Charlie Keller were in the outfield and a young Yogi Berra was behind the plate. But even ...

Gwen Stefani

A Pox on all Your Blankets

You know how "€œIf you remember the 60s, you weren"€™t there"€? Here's mine: "€œIt's not "€˜genocide"€™ if you"€™re still here."€ Sorry, disgruntled African ...

The Men Who Taste Jews in Their Sandwiches

I woke up this morning with a bit of a chest cold and decided not to blame the Jews for it. Some mystical yearning deep inside my heart"€”I believe it's called "€œcommon ...

Dolomites

When Italians Weren”€™t Cowards

The Remembrance Day commemorations in honor of the war dead always prompt even me to think that the Italians"€™ reputation as a nation of cowards on the battlefield is ...

Human Nature Studies, Demographic Realism, and More…

...sticking it to the rich is a real psychological ...

Ruling the Mat in Miami

MIAMI BEACH—To the Mecca of brutalism, a place that rivals Marbella for vulgarity, with sprawling, marble-clad palaces, boxy condo blocks, and concrete lumps replacing Old World ...

Daniel Day-Lewis

Lincoln: A Tall Man in a Small Film

With his unimpeachable performance in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (which opens nationwide on Friday), Daniel Day-Lewis seems ready to become the first man ever to win three Best ...

Bo Svenson in Kill Bill vol.2

OH, NO, JU-DON’T!

Taki Theodoracopulos wins the world 70+ judo championship by forcing tough-guy actor Bo "Walking Tall" Svenson into ...

Julian Assange

Who Guards Those Who Guard the Guardians?

In July 2011, in response to public anger at a few tabloid journalists"€™ illegal activities, David Cameron reluctantly announced the Leveson Inquiry into the specific ...

10 Good Reasons Not to Assassinate Obama

America has now elected its first half-black president to a second term, which, if you understand math, means that America has finally elected a fully black president to one term. ...

How Bimbos Saved the American Republic

Another American election has come and gone, this one noteworthy for its complete absence of candidates from America's richest, most famous family dynasties. As far as I can tell, ...

Election Special!

The attraction to Obama was mostly purchased through the time-honored method, fundamental to democracy, of shoveling public money to key ...

Joseph Goebbels

Dear Barack Obama (A Letter From Joseph Goebbels)

I realize receiving a letter from a time traveler can be confusing, and you may believe this is some kind of a prank. To verify my time-traveling skills, I have enclosed within ...

U.S. Army Rangers

Ballots and Bullets

OK, so I did vote after all, my lofty apathy indifference of three weeks ago notwithstanding. It was my son that sent me off to the polling booth. Danny Derbyshire has for years ...

The Calm Between the Storms

Hurricane Sandy's floodwaters have ebbed and the American Northeast's ravaged infrastructure has begun stitching itself back together. Taki's Mag mainstay John Derbyshire finally ...


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