An Evening With the “€œRape Me First, Kill Me Last”€ Crowd

"€œLeaving the house was my first mistake."€ That's an old running gag on my blog (along with "€œApartheid: Was it all bad?"€ and "€œJournalists: Your moral and ...

Decking the Red Whale

Perhaps it’s the sadistic caveman in me, but I have a lifelong love for the “sweet science” of boxing. I especially love watching unstoppable knockout artists ...

Michelle Fields

Michelle Fields Is Not Black and Blue

When #TheDress became a viral sensation last year, you had people who were absolutely positive the dress was gold and white while others looking at the same picture were just as ...

Money Trumps

Readers of Takimag would do well to dial down the U.S. election noise blurting from all sources of their electronic cage and point browsers to the only site that matters: John ...

A Heaping Helping of Hitlers

The left's grip on reality has never exactly been vise-like. But it seems to me that leftists are losing it"€”more than usual"€”over Trump. And I"€™m no Trump fan, to be ...

Freedom Highway, Atlanta

The Business End of Freedom

If you still believe big business is, as novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand famously described it, "€œAmerica's Persecuted Minority,"€ then you must be on the same ...

Rob Ford

St. Rob Ford the Baptist

They won"€™t have Rob Ford to stub their toes on anymore. Last week, the ex"€“Toronto mayor, struck by a rare form of cancer, was checked into palliative care, the ...

Is Trump Right About NATO?

I am “not isolationist, but I am ‘America First,’” Donald Trump told The New York Times last weekend. “I like the expression.” Of NATO, where ...

A Blizzard of Special Snowflakes

It wasn’t quite the Kent State Massacre, but you wouldn’t know it from the students’ anguished wails. Last Monday morning, students at Emory University here in ...

Bring Lexi Home

On Monday, agents from L.A. County's Department of Children and Family Services removed 6-year-old Lexi from her family of four years because she's 1.6% American Indian. ...

The Rule-or-Ruin Republicans

“Things reveal themselves passing away,” wrote W. B. Yeats. Whatever one may think of Donald Trump, his campaign has done us a service—exposing the underbelly ...

Brownshirts & Republican Wimps

Friday evening’s Donald Trump rally in Chicago was broken up by a foul-mouthed mob that infiltrated the hall and forced the cancelation of the event to prevent violence and ...

Donald Trump

No Safe Space for the Wicked

One of the most inane verbal constructions in the modern leftist lexicon"€”right up there with “rape culture,” “white privilege,” and ...

The Sea Island Conspiracy

Over the long weekend before the Mississippi and Michigan primaries, the sky above Sea Island was black with corporate jets. Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Larry Page and ...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Don

In early 2013, former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson, the ditzy blonde who took up space on the show in the late 1980s before fading into obscurity, posted an ...

The American Hitler or the American Netanyahu?

Staying up all Monday night to write a column for publication Wednesday morning is a tricky business when elections fall on a Tuesday. So let me offer four longer-term ...


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