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Taki has been the High Life columnist for the London Spectator for over 40 years. He has written for National Review, The London Sunday Times, and The New York Post, among others. He is the founder of The American Conservative and the publisher of Taki's Magazine. He has played Davis Cup tennis, competed in the Olympics for Greece, and is Judo Champion of the World 70 and over.

High Life

The Racket Behind the Rhetoric

Taki

NEW YORK—My friend Douglas Murray is the canary in the Bagel coal mine as of late. The l...

Deep Thoughts

Next Stop, Saint Petersburg?

Taki

Back in 2000, Vladimir Putin repeatedly petitioned for Russia to be admitted to NATO, acco...

High Life

Yes-Men and Strongmen

Taki

The only good news after the massacres in Ukraine is that so many ugly behemoth superyacht...

Groucho Marx

High Life

A Fine Line

Taki

One hundred years ago, a down-in-the-dumps Joseph Roth wrote to Stefan Zweig, “The barba...

High Life

Wildlife Lessons

Taki

There is something that has been bothering me of late, and that is my total lack of schade...

High Life

The Two Nicks

Taki

Two weeks ago in St. Moritz I ran into both Nicolas Niarchos and Nicolai von Bismarck, two...

St. Petersburg, Russia

High Life

David, Goliath, and Uncle Sam

Taki

If Western universities were not brimming with leftist professors, the present situation i...

Tender is the Night, cover of the first edition

High Life

A Novel Upbringing

Taki

GSTAAD—This is my last week in the Alps and I’m trying to get it all in, skiing, cross...

Crime and Punishment

Crime Time

Taki

Like a strange melody that keeps repeating in my ear are four letters, PTSD, an acronym fo...

St. Moritz, Switzerland

High Life

Just for Kicks

Taki

ST. MORITZ—Once upon a time, not that long ago, St. Moritz was the world’s greatest re...

PJ O'Rourke

High Life

One Big Lie

Taki

Was it Socrates who said that chaos was the natural state of mankind, and tyranny the usua...

High Life

Barbarians at the Gate

Taki

GSTAAD—I cross-country ski the old-fashioned way, not skating but on machine-made narrow...

High Life

Medaling and Meddling

Taki

GSTAAD—Okay, sports fans, have you been enjoying the concentration-camp Olympics? I’m ...

Joan Didion

High Life

The Fine Print

Taki

GSTAAD—Joan Didion, who died December last, took herself extremely seriously. American w...

Sports

Courting Disaster

Taki

During the late ’50s I was on the European tennis circuit and was ranked among the lowes...

High Life

Outrageous Fortune

Taki

GSTAAD—Dinner parties are no longer verboten here, so I posed a question to some youngst...

Bernese Oberland

High Life

Free Blondie!

Taki

GSTAAD—According to a little bird Boris has gone from brilliant to bawd, and according t...

High Life

The Civil Shepherd

Taki

GSTAAD—Who was it who said good manners had gone the way of black-and-white TV? Actually...

Mustair, Switzerland

High Life

The Swiss Way

Taki

A revisionist-historian-anthropologist-anarchist, whose name is not important because his ...

High Life

Omichronicle

Taki

GSTAAD—It is hard to imagine we have reached the year 2022 and still impose completely i...

St Columba Altarpiece, Rogier van der Weyden

High Life

You Better Believe

Taki

A few weeks after Friedrich Nietzsche bragged to an admirer that he had completed a ruthle...

Columbia University, New York

High Life

The New Old Continent

Taki

Imagine a European country today in which a newspaper of its most populous city launches a...

Sir Oswald Birley, self-portrait

High Life

Party Lines

Taki

NEW YORK—It’s party time in the Bagel, and it’s about time, too. Good restaurants an...

Jon Gruden

Another Defenestration

Dropping the Ball

Taki

Jon Gruden, an NFL head coach with a $100 million contract from the Las Vegas Raiders, was...

High Life

The Truth About Kushner

Taki

NEW YORK—Will the American media ever face a reckoning for its fake Russia collusion and...

Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith, Othello

High Life

Cancel Away!

Taki

NEW YORK—I’ve never met anyone named Othello, certainly not in Venice nor in Cyprus, b...

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