There is a story, very likely apocryphal, that shortly after Charles de Gaulle resigned France's presidency, he and his famously prim wife were entertaining some American guests ...
The recent pillorying of John Derbyshire and Bob Weissberg after being accused of making tactless remarks about race recalled a question that's been bothering me for decades. Why ...
Baseball season reminds us of the identity-politics group that doesn"t bark"left-handers. Why are certain aggregations of once-persecuted people such as blacks or gays so ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I walked into a bar yesterday and my neighbor was in tears. Her marriage is over and her husband is leaving her. "It just wasn"t working," she told me while melting in ...
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 ...
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 ...
In The Odyssey, Theoclymenus asks of Telemachus, "Among men, who are you? Tell me also of your city and parents." Old-fashioned folks who haven’t been poisoned by ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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