I never want to belong to any club that would have anyone else as a member. Groucho's original complaint is incontestably clever, but when it comes to going almost anywhere, from the movies to Mass, other people are the problem, surely? (On the ...
Congratulations, Taki's! You made the big time! And by "big time" I mean, er, a bunch of telephone poles in one Toronto neighborhood. Right after Trump's election, this poster was discovered duct-taped around East York: HEY WHITE ...
So this is my fourth Hitler. When I was a kid, I treasured my Book of Lists, and still remember big chunks of it. (But don"t know my own cell phone number a year after I got the damn thing...) This paperback treasury of trivia included the ...
I hate the Earth. Yeah, I hate all the other planets, too, but what I mean is: Nowadays, conservatives are supposed to pretend to care about stuff like equality and gay "marriage" and the poor and the environment. I don"t. I feel ...
Four years after her death, Helen Gurley Brown"author of the 1962 phenomenon Sex and the Single Girl and longtime Cosmopolitan editor in chief"is having a moment. Not one but two bulging biographies are now out (to accompany the one ...
It's a head-shaker of a showdown: two unlikely contenders not everyone is particularly excited about. Even some of the voters who got them to this point (beginning what seems like an eternity ago) are shaking their heads at the state of the ...
On the recording, surreptitiously made in Los Angeles, the subject can be heard: * giving his friends lewd nicknames * delivering a lengthy monologue larded with bawdy and even blasphemous puns * joking about the bedroom behavior of a beloved ...
I was too cowardly to join my anarchist comrades in their Reagan/Mulroney-era civil disobedience exploits, which sometimes involved throwing blood (real or"mostly"otherwise) onto some enemy's edifice. Instead, I fantasized about hurling ...
If Taki's readers know about Maclean's magazine at all, it's because Pat Buchanan alerted them to a trial under way in Canada in 2008 to determine whether or not Canada's oldest weekly, and its star columnist Mark Steyn, were guilty of anti-Muslim ...
I can"t believe I have to write about "cultural appropriation" again/now/anymore. But as another Clinton veers toward the White House, and a new Blair Witch movie debuts, why shouldn"t the Permanent Floating Nineties Revival embrace ...
Beginning with Roger Fry's elevation of Vincent van Gogh to secular sainthood, the Dutch painter first became a middlebrow, then a mass-market, martyr. For those who find the Real Thing (or their idea of Him) inconveniently demanding, van Gogh makes ...
Remember when "Stella got her groove back""and the dude of her dreams turned out to be on the down-low? Well, there's something in the Million-Selling Lady Memoirists water, and that something"teh gay!"has struck ...
