Goodwill to Almost All Men

Here we are, once again writing for Takimag’s Christmas issue. Like every birthday of our Lord Jesus, this is a special one, so I want to make it count. In my sporting days, trying too hard was as counterproductive as not trying hard enough, so let’s see if this principle also applies to the written word. Eighty-five thousand Yemeni children may have died of hunger, while 10,000 men, women, and children have been killed by indiscriminate and disproportionate air strikes targeting civilians, and that murderous megalomaniac Mohammad bin Salman and his Gulf allies are responsible. Just ...

Angela Merkel

Lists to Live By

As a child, the only list I had ever heard about was the FBI Ten Most Wanted. Then a lady who wrote about fashion"€”Eugenia Sheppard, I believe"€”made a list of the ten ...

The Saudi Seduction

As everyone knows, when you cross a camel with a mule, you get a Saudi ruling family member. A camel crossed with a snake produces a Qatari ruler, and finally, a camel having made ...

Guns and Race

With gun control, murder, and race much in the news, it's worth noting that the Obama Administration has solved its longstanding problem that, according to the federal Bureau of ...

H.L. Mencken

The Irreverent Mr. Mencken

Why do we still read Henry Louis Mencken? He was mostly a columnist, and columns are usually forgotten the day after they are published. One of the main reasons we still read ...

Can’t We All Just Get Post-Racial?

Four years ago, a starry-eyed, hopeful, and fatally credulous nation elected Barack Obama to the presidency based largely on some dimwitted notion that he would usher us into a ...

Multiculturalism: When Will the Sleeper Wake?

London Mayor Boris Johnson spoke the other day about the riots that devastated London and other English cities last summer: The biggest shock for me from the riots was the sheer ...

Race: Real and Surreal

I tried to go into the 2012 American Renaissance conference without prejudice, but it was difficult. I’ve been taught since childhood that whites can’t be white ...

When Democracy Murders Liberty

In a recent interview with the German weekly Junge Freiheit, popular satirist and onetime fixture of the left Eckhard Henscheid explained why he had moved toward the libertarian ...

Crimethink and Thinking Ability

What’s the latest from the scientific frontlines in the IQ Wars? As you’ll recall from the press, the Bad Guys are social scientists such as Arthur Jensen, Linda Gottfredson, ...

Obama and the Left

His campaign slogan boasts of "€œChange We Can Believe In."€ He tells voters that "€œAmericans are hungry for a new kind of politics."€ Rolling Stone dubs him "€œA New ...

What We Eat & Who We Are

Under consideration: Michael Pollan, The Omnivor's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Penguin (2006), 464 pages; and In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Penguin ...

Is There Life Beyond the Party?

Of all the candidates for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, only one took the time to address the 35th-annual March for Life on Jan. 22, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. ...

20th Century Music”€”What Went Wrong?

The tale is told by M. F. Barnes, in her 1931 study Renaissance Vistas (and it has often been depicted by great painters, notably Botticelli and Carpaccio), of Saint Augustine, ...


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