Frances Bean Cobain

Freeloaders and Bloodsuckers

Hollywood has a rule: If it's true, it's strange. Kurt Cobain's widow Courtney Love recently voiced parental concern for her hapless spawn Frances Bean via Twitter. Rumors had ...

Early Childhood Reeducation Camps

Does being an early childhood educator turn you into a meddlesome nitwit, or are meddlesome nitwits instinctively drawn to careers in early childhood education? It's a tough ...

I Lost My Virginity in the British Army

Sex and soldiers are the forces of life and death crashing into one another. It gets animalistic. It gets filmed. Luckily for me, the Ministry of Defence had decided to treat the ...

Martha Plimpton

Thank You for Offending Me

Lee Aronsohn co-created Two and a Half Men. Lee Aronsohn executive-produced The Big Bang Theory. Last week, Lee Aronsohn pissed off the feminist community. Taking the third point ...

How to Find the Perfect Guy

I walked into a bar yesterday and my neighbor was in tears. Her marriage is over and her husband is leaving her. "€œIt just wasn"€™t working,"€ she told me while melting in ...

Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald

When Hemingway Lectured Fitzgerald

Papa Hemingway’s recently published letter to an Italian male friend purportedly revealed the “human side” of which his admirers were already well aware. (Like Bogie, he was ...

Elitism Leads to Tyrannically Whiny Protesters

When Trenton Oldfield, weird and wrongheaded, jumped into the River Thames last Saturday to protest the Cambridge-Oxford Boat Race specifically and elitism in sports generally, he ...

Digging Up My Roots With a Cyber-Shovel

In The Odyssey, Theoclymenus asks of Telemachus, "€œAmong men, who are you? Tell me also of your city and parents."€ Old-fashioned folks who haven’t been poisoned by ...

Spike Lee

The Self-Righteous Hive Mind

Haidt, Jonathan. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. Pantheon, 2012. The Derbyshire Affair, America's latest Two Minutes Hate over race, ...

Donald Trump

Accolades for Acolytes

Welcome to Taki's Mag, all you do-gooders who"€™ve discovered us this past week! It's a big world, and there are people to save and hands to hold everywhere! Let us help all of ...

Torch Mobs for Tolerance

As I type this from my heavily black neighborhood, I hark back to my wigger days and recall something that Chuck D from black-nationalist rap group Public Enemy said to me wearily ...

Rudy Giuliani

A Ten for Courage and a Zero for Sensitivity

Dr. David Starkey is a great man, a Tudor historian, and one of the few academics who tells it like it is. Openly gay, he has no time for prancing queens and other such clown ...

Baseball: LA’s Thin Blue Line

March 28 saw a springtime ritual that rivals or even surpasses Easter in many Americans"€™ hearts: The baseball season opened. Despite the many differences"€”real and ...

Clarence Leon Williams and Thomas Chatterton Williams

A Trayvon by any Other Name

The first time I saw the name "€œTrayvon Martin"€ was on March 16 while reading an arguable but intelligent New York Times op-ed. Entitled "€œAs Black As We Wish to ...

Bradley Cooper in The Hangover

Hollywood: Dysfunction Junction

At six foot nine, Kris Humphries may literally be the world's biggest ass. This giant goober-faced fool is a basketball player who was briefly married to pneumatic Armenian ...

Lt. William Calley

The Calley Effect

I share my Taki colleagues"€™ dismay and disgust regarding the fly-by-night carnival I"€™m obliged to refer to"€”in accordance with his mother's stated wishes"€”as the ...


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