Taki Magazine

  • Nav
  • Nav
  • Nav
  • Nav
  • Nav
  • Nav
ADVERTISEMENT

The Magazine

`cause paper's overrated
Andrew Cusack

Separation Anxiety

by Andrew Cusack on February 04, 2009

Fond of beer in swarthy nooks, but happiest among his books. Change happens very quickly these days, and it has always interested me that people born in the same year as me are (more or less) the youngest ones to remember life without the Internet. The younger siblings of friends have no experience, in particular, of being computer literate while not … [Read More]

It is an age-old question: what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? The force in question is the farming community of Argentina, once among the agricultural powerhouses of the world, and the object is the country’s slippery presidential couple, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her husband (and predecessor in the top job) Néstor Kirchner. From all the … [Read More]

Victor Davis Hanson has suggested in his “Letter to the Europeans” (National Review Online, January 6, 2006) that we Americans believe the European Union is a “flawed concept”. But is it possible to make such a pronouncement when there exist such varying definitions as to what precisely is the “concept” behind the E.U.? The original concept (at least the version released … [Read More]

There is a fascinating little British film from the middle of the century named “It Happened Here” which depicts life in Great Britain after the Nazis cross the channel and subjugate the island. Using not a single frame of archive footage, it was made by two British teenagers over the course of eight years before it was finally released in 1965. … [Read More]

Over in Great Britain, the House of Commons recently passed the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill which, among other things, keeps the time limit on abortions at twenty-four weeks (in spite a hope that it would be lowered), authorizes the creation of “savior siblings (brothers and sisters deliberately created in a lab solely for their organs to be harvested for use … [Read More]

Quebec, la belle province, was once a land as Christ-haunted as Flannery O’Connor’s American South, with classical parish churches at the heart of towns and cities, and crucifixes in classrooms, courtrooms, and most prominently looking down from on high above the Speaker’s Chair in the Parliament of Quebec. (Alfred Hitchcock’s “I Confess” superbly depicts Quebec’s Catholic society in the 1950s). While … [Read More]

For those who haven’t been keeping up with Caledonian affairs, Scottish independence has been brought onto the agenda by the victory of the anti-unionist, pro-independence Scottish National Party in the general election for the Scottish Parliament last year. The SNP victory comes after about half a century of solid domination of Scottish politics by the Labour party (now in regional opposition … [Read More]

The realm of prophecy and prediction is a notoriously dangerous territory in which to venture if one takes things too seriously, but I hope you will forgive a light little wander into that domain. The question at hand is the rise and fall of nations. The period since the collapse of European Communism from 1989 to 1991 has witnessed a great … [Read More]

In the latest issue of the periodical formerly known as The Times Higher Education Supplement (it now calls itself simply “Times Higher Education”), the philosopher Simon Blackburn takes a stab at what he sees as the top ten “modern myths”. For those blessed enough to be ignorant of Mr. Blackburn, he is an atheist academic at the University of Cambridge and … [Read More]

Page 1 of 1 pages

Search

  

Email Subscription


Fill out the form below to be notified when takimag.com is updated.

Enter your email address:


Delivered by FeedBurner


Sniper's Tower

Elf Care


In these uncertain times perhaps you have considered going back to school. How about Iceland’s Elf School? With a syllabus, classrooms, textbooks, diplomas, and ongoing research, Álfaskólinn (Elf School) teaches about … [Read More]

Posted by Christina Oxenberg on November 07, 2009


The New Economy


MISH has picked up on an important aspect of the recent job numbers that shouldn’t be overlooked. Not all sectors are shrinking… 190,000 jobs were lost in total vs. 263,000 jobs … [Read More]

Posted by Richard Spencer on November 06, 2009


The Crux of Europe’s Problem


The European Court of Human Rights ruled against hanging crucifixes in Italian state classrooms, guided by considerations of “confessional neutrality”. There has been considerable protest in Italy against the decision, and … [Read More]

Posted by Mark Hackard on November 06, 2009


Poor Little Patriotic Jihadist


Larry Auster offers a helpful digest version of the New York Times‘s coverage of the Fort Hood massacre: A proud first generation American, born in Virginia, Nidal Hasan wanted nothing other … [Read More]

Posted by Richard Spencer on November 06, 2009


Grand New Pagan


The neopagan takeover of the GOP has begun. Village Voice Steven Thrasher, Nov. 4 2009 Holy Tyr! Queens voters made American history tonight, when they chose Dan Halloran as the nation’s … [Read More]

Posted by Richard Spencer on November 05, 2009