Cholera or Plague? You Decide!

Being an assortment of presidential endorsements, wild speculations, and cris de coeur by contributors to Taki's ...

The Tyranny of Tolerance

Contemporary liberalism claims open-ended tolerance as its guiding principle. The claim is an odd one, since every social order accepts some patterns of conduct but not others. ...

Lost Continent

While 44 per cent of Americans attend a place of worship once a week"€”and this is mostly a Christian place of worship"€”only 15 per cent of Europeans do so"€”and many of ...

Surrender Not Unto Caesar”€”Resisting Catholic Liberalism

On a number of literally life and death issues, American conservatives and Catholics stand in a firm alliance. On other subjects, these groups pull in different directions"€”and ...

Stuck in the Cold (McBama’s Nostalgia for the 20th Century)

As president, Barack Obama "€œwould reject the Bush Doctrine of preemption and regime change and replace it with a doctrine of prevention and cooperation and, ladies and ...

Establishment Messiah

Obama's campaign would have us believe that he's the anti-corporate candidate, a populist "€œman of the people" whose race for the White House is being funded by tens and ...

The Race for 3rd Place

This election cycle was an even bigger missed opportunity than 2000. The issues Pat Buchanan ran on"€”foreign policy, trade, and immigration"€”are all more salient now than ...

Design for Living

Architecture is not politics, but it's relevant to politics because we create our physical environment in the image of what we believe about the world generally. We need to make ...

Immigration Restriction”€”Ruined by its Success?

At first read, Scott McConnell's review of Mark Krikorian's The New Case Against Immigration"€”Both Legal and Illegal seems like a rather courteous, and not particularly ...

Bad Paper”€”How the Fed Bailed on the Constitution

Since the Truman administration, Democrats have called for the nationalization of the health-care industry. The Democratic Party's position, stressed more strongly at some times ...

We Will Berry You!”€”The Flaky Socialism of the Crunchy Cons

When you read the Crunchy Cons, one name comes up again and again. As a political movement, the group has been spearheaded by Rod Dreher, and it to him that we owe the phrase ...

Inconvenient Truth”€”The Censoring of Journalism in the Territories

As Aeschylus observed nearly 2,500 years ago, "€œIn war, truth is the first casualty."€ In the Palestinian territories, truth is being occupied by various factions and is in ...

Empire of Nothing

President Nicolas Sarkozy responded to claims that the EU was a paper tiger by taking credit for the Russia-Georgia ceasefire and Moscow's partial troop withdrawal: It "€œis ...

The Edge We”€™re On: Contemporary Populism and Its Discontents

David Sirota begins his tour of American populism by telling how he hung around with leftists, got drunk, daydreamed for a while, and then threw up. Sirota's The Uprising has ...

Come Home, America!”€”to the Real Conservativism on TV

If you think that FOX News"€”with its bleached-out blonde anchorbabes made up to look like mid-price hookers, and its braying neocon mouthpieces trumpeting the party line"€”is ...

East-West: The Origins of a Crisis

A great deal of ink has been spilled over the last month about the proximate causes of the fighting in the Caucasus. Abkhaz, Georgians, Ossetians and Russians have all presented ...


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