Rape Culture…or Rape DNA?

The April edition of International Journal of Epidemiology contains an article called "€œSexual offending runs in families: A 37-year nationwide study."€ A summary of the ...

Insidious Orwellian Machines

I met Doug Williams in August while developing a pilot for a TV show about myth busting. He's the most vocal critic of polygraph machines in the world and authored the book From ...

A Factually Bereft U.S.A. Today

A good historian should be an annoyance. Most people want simple, pat answers to complex historical questions. Lousy historians give the people what they want. A genuinely ...

Charlie Hypocrites

I am not Charlie, nor will I ever be. Wearing a Je suis Charlie badge is one sure way of getting attention, but I will leave that to others. And another thing: Obscenity has no ...

Enjoying the Race Wars? Thank the Media.

Yesterday, a massive brawl broke out at a St. Louis City Hall meeting that was called to investigate police behavior. A senator who works with the police unions stood up to defend ...

Who Killed the Enlightenment?

There were three terrible things about 9/11. The first was the apocalyptic barbarism, the destruction of 3,000 innocent lives. The second was the pummeling of the New York City ...

10 Attacks Committed by Terrorists Radicalized in the West

A picture recently surfaced of radical Islamicist Anjem Choudary surrounded by beers and a girlie mag. He's presumably in college at the time and appears to be a perfectly normal ...

A Triumph of Terrorism

Western media are declaring the million-man march in Paris, where world leaders paraded down Boulevard Voltaire in solidarity with France, a victory over terrorism. Isn’t ...

Charles Barkley

Al Sharpton Is at It Again

If I were a North Korean leader, or even an ISIS head chopper, I"€™d be reveling in the fact that a black American former basketball star spoke more plainly about race in ...

Which Holocaust Did You Mean?

I wagered a Takimag writer that the New York Times and its international excuse for a newspaper would report on anti-Semitism in Europe the minute the civilian dead in Gaza ...

Regensburg Cathedral

Deutschland, Deutschland!

Boo to the C.I.A.! It got caught spying on Germany and its top man in Berlin has been sent home. What I"€™d like to know is, what's so important about Berlin's open-book ...

White Devils for a Free Africa

I write this while American unmanned flights and 18 American "€œspecialists"€ are looking for those 200 unfortunate girls abducted by Boko Haram, a group our very own Hillary ...

Blenheim Palace

Curse You, Supply and Demand!

Like many pundits opining upon French economist Thomas Piketty's new book about how the rich always get richer and something has to be done about it, Capital in the Twenty-First ...

Sochi 2013

Don”€™t Bait the Bears

Back in 1961 a CIA agent and I approached Thomas Lejus, who won the 1959 boys"€™ singles championship for the Soviet Union at Wimbledon. We took him to Café Royal, where ...

Cliven Bundy

The Vanishing Yokel

Even his homespun-sounding name"€”Cliven Bundy"€”hints that he is part of a dying breed. Reputed to be the “last rancher in South Nevada,” he locked horns with the ...

Young Theodore Roosevelt

A More Sinister Equality

Patriotic effusions, whosever they may be, seldom please citizens of other nations, because they are generally so self-congratulatory; and self-congratulation, which is no doubt ...


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