Statue of Prinz Eugen, Palais Hofburg, Vienna

Prussian Prose

At the end of World War II, the victorious Allies were convinced that Prussian militarism had played an important part in Hitler’s war in Europe. Herbert Marcuse, an overrated theorist of the Frankfurt School working for Uncle Sam, submitted a secret report that put all the blame for Nazism on capitalism. Marcuse was a phony who later became ...

Taki’s Top Drawer

Politics

Ignorance, Its Uses and Nurture

Democracy may not be the silliest idea concocted by man, but for anything larger than a small town, it is crackpot. It consists in the idea that a ...

Abraham Hamadeh

Trump Not Sending His Best

Picture your ideal Republican candidate. Would they look something like this? 1. An "anchor baby" (technically, "illegal immigrant"); 2. Parents ...

Why Small Businesses Hate Bidenomics

If the economy is so good, why do small business leaders feel so bad? The latest Small Business Optimism Index from the National Federation of ...

The Right’s Burnt Offerings

In a column last December, I pointed out that whenever some schizo shoots up a place, and it’s revealed that he left a trail of “red flags” ...

Houses of Parliament

Bent Politicians

What’s your definition of bravery? Rushing into a burning building to save a sizzling baby? Holding off an entire platoon of soldiers from ...

When Ideology Trumps Sanity

Inundated by the constant tidal wave of horrible news hitting us here at home, as well as abroad as the world finds itself in the express lane toward ...

The Week That Perished

Cultural Caviar


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