Forever Young

If these days I stay in an expensive hotel, it is because someone else has paid for it. Left to my own devices, I stay in cheap hotels because I prefer them. There was a time, when I could not afford to do so, when I enjoyed staying in luxurious establishments, but now that I can afford to do so, at least for a day or two, my taste for being ...

Taki’s Top Drawer

Politics

Deposit Insurance for Billionaires?

Politicians in Washington have the shortest memories. Maybe that's why they so seldom learn from their sometimes catastrophic mistakes. It was ...

Something Stupid This Way Comes

Just in time for Halloween, the leader of Maidstone Borough Council in England has written to the U.K. Home Secretary demanding she take time out ...

Free Speech

The Constitution's First Amendment protects free speech for good reason. If people can't say what they want, we don't have honest debate. I was ...

President Emmanuel Macron

Politics as Usual

Arriving in Paris in the middle of the most severe political crisis in France since the mass uprising of spoiled brats in 1968, I looked around for ...

The Week That Perished

Cultural Caviar

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