So there I was with my 17-year-old son, showing him how to change a wheel. I share a car with him, and one of the tires had gone flat overnight. Off with the hubcap, out with the ...

As a science geek from way back"€”Andrade and Huxley were favorite childhood companions"€”I try to keep tabs on that side of things. This can be disheartening. To quote from ...

Probably it's just my simpleminded arithmomania, but years ending in the numeral three seem to be more memorable than average, both publicly and personally, for reasons high or ...

It has been nearly a hundred years since Sir James Frazer completed his tremendous work of anthropology The Golden Bough. The book scandalized many Christians, suggesting as it ...

People who live among words, books, and ideas, and who are scholars, or hobnob with scholars, or dream of being scholars, occasionally need reminding of the social world's true ...

I keep getting surprised by my own naïveté. The case here is that of Anthony D. Weiner, who until two years ago was the US Representative from a Jewish/white-ethnic/black ...

My favorite jailhouse sex scene is the one in The Longest Yard. Burt Reynolds is in the Florida state pen. A fellow inmate boasts of his powers as a fixer. “I can get you ...

The Boston Marathon bombing story came garnished with an unusual number of ironies, coincidences, and historical echoes. Irony. Item number 27 in Christian Landers's book Stuff ...

We all had a lot of fun at the American Renaissance bash the other weekend. A disproportionate amount of the fun was provided by vlogger Paul Ramsey, whom I recommend for ...

Margaret Thatcher had some direct impact on my life in three ways that I can recall. One. In January 1979, four months before she assumed office as prime minister, I left England ...

Here is an old Soviet-era joke, from the subgenre in which dimwitted peasant Khruschev plays Costello to smart seminarian Stalin’s Abbott. Stalin and Khruschev are touring ...

A couple of months ago here on Taki’s Mag I reviewed responses to geek website edge.org‘s Annual Question. The 2013 question was: What should we be worried about? The ...

Nelson Mandela is home from the hospital. The guy is 94 years old and not in bad shape"€”perhaps illustrating the black-white mortality crossover. Mandela and I go back a long ...

It's been three months: time for another potpourri of unrelated items. Assholes. To make up for not reading half as many books as I’d like to, I read about books. An ...

The war between the sexes is fought on many fronts, some of them very far away. There’s a report from one of those fronts in the January 2013 issue of The China Journal. ...

I"€™m nine months out of chemotherapy and getting back up to speed now. I started reviewing books again: just did Roger Scruton’s latest for the upcoming American ...