All knowledgeable persons are knowledgeable alike. All ignorant persons are ignorant in their own way. So I discovered during the days when, as a former high school English teacher, I once encountered a student who honestly thought Tolstoy had written a book called Anna Kournikova. But then, I also ...

If there was a street near you that was filled with Muslim immigrants raping all the women, who would you blame? The Muslims, or the street? The French city of Nantes is currently in the grip of what is generally known as an “immigrant crime wave,” a phrase that obscures which particular ...

Last December saw the twentieth anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami that killed 230,000 across Southeast Asia. Seeing the emotive scenes of carnage, devastation, and death upon their television screens, the good people of the West dipped into their own pockets and kindly sent the victims out ...

A British court has just made a surprising judgment. According to reports, David Spencer, a 56-year-old soccer fan, was convicted and fined £1,375 for hurling racial abuse at a 15-year-old brown boy in the stands at a game, after allegedly chanting the impolite invective “You’re a P***. ...

Last week it was annual Holocaust Memorial Day—ironically, I personally failed to remember this fact, otherwise I would have written this present column to fit in with it. However, I was soon reminded of the occasion after being alerted in the media to the highly surprising information that the ...

The Gaîté Lyrique theater, in Paris’ third arrondissement, has a long and très glorieux history dating back to 1862, once playing host to operettas by the likes of Jacques Offenbach, but today the establishment seems to prefer staging live-action exercises in the Theater of the ...

As already reported on Takimag, there are plenty of lunatic theories out there at the moment about what really started all those California wildfires currently raging. Jewish space lasers? A sinister attempt to destroy and cover up evidence of the crimes of P. Diddy, or the true origin of all those ...

The first question I want answered when Donald Trump takes office next week is: “What’s with all those mystery drones flying over USAF bases in America and England lately?” Given Trump’s admirable willingness to talk matters ufological with podcast bro-hosts like Joe Rogan in the ...

Looking at the unreadable trash that usually makes up the Christmas bestseller lists every year, my general thought is, “I wouldn’t want to have received any of those books as a present.” This sentiment in mind, I wondered what text might end up being this year’s most dumpstered offering. ...