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Taki

Taki

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.

Gruyeres, Switzerland

High Life

Life Is a Contact Sport

Taki

GSTAAD—It feels like a sepia-tinged melodrama, one directed by the great schlock-master ...

Mike Bloomberg

High Life

Harvey and Bloomie

Taki

I was not aware that there is a Spectator/Takimag fan club that meets in French-speaking S...

Brad Pitt

High Life

A Burning Question

Taki

GSTAAD—Lenin Moreno is in trouble despite his very unchristian first name. For any of yo...

Photo from El Morocco

High Life

A U-Turn Through the Past

Taki

I find myself detached from mainstream culture. It started with the demise of nightclubs l...

Harry and Meghan Sussex

Royal Watch

Markle My Words

Taki

I never thought I’d get back to this silly subject ever again, but the Markles, as I now...

Greta Thunberg

Zeitgeist

Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb

Taki

I write this from the once-upon-a-time small alpine village of Gstaad, Switzerland, now a ...

Meghan Markle

High Life

Tyrants With Pens

Taki

Did any of you know that most of the 20th-century monsters—Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Ceausesc...

Betty Grable

High Life

Book ’Em, Taki

Taki

GSTAAD—I’ve been hitting the books rather hard lately, the ritzy-glitzy crowd having g...

Palace Hotel, Gstaad

High Life

20-20 Vision

Taki

GSTAAD—The French have a saying: “Il n’y a rien de plus bête que le sourire du gagn...

Zeitgeist

To Hell With the Perpetually Offended

Taki

I began my journalistic career under strict censorship. It was imposed on the press and me...

Margaret Thatcher

High Life

Maggie’s Tome

Taki

By the time you read this it will all be over, but will it? I’ve had a bad feeling all a...

New York City

High Life

Fireworks Galore

Taki

How can I phrase it without sounding pompous? When very talented people dine together, it ...

Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?), Paul Gaugiun

High Life

Stupidity Reigns Supreme

Taki

No use piling on where Prince Andrew is concerned. It’s not the end of the world, and he...

St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York

Afternoon Delight

‘Times’ Up

Taki

The following was recently but ecstatically pronounced by the malignant, anti-white, anti-...

High Life

Crime Stays

Taki

NEW YORK—Things are heating up, in both London and Nueva York, as this place should corr...

High Life

Better Red Than Woke

Taki

At the time it felt like a century, but it was only twelve years. I began this column in 1...

Central Park

High Life

Old Bagel Buildings

Taki

NEW YORK—What follows will bore the pants off you, but at least it beats another piece o...

Minetta Tavern

High Life

Restaurants and Witch Hunts

Taki

A busy ten days—nights, rather—with some heroic drinking thrown in for good measure. H...

High Life

‘Ladies’ Man

Taki

Should art mirror the world as it is, or does an artist fail the public if the work goes b...

Simone de Beauvoir

High Life

Simone vs. Sontag

Taki

NEW YORK—A strange thing happened to me last week here in the Bagel. Having read the rev...

High Life

Heroes and Villains

Taki

NEW YORK—The Roy Cohn documentary Bully, Coward, Victim was successfully screened last w...

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

High Life

Attack of the Elites

Taki

It’s Indian summertime and the living is easy. There hasn’t been a cloud above the Bag...

New York, NY

High Life

A Bleak Prognosis

Taki

NEW YORK—The master of the love letter to New York, E.B. White, eloquently described the...

Afternoon Delight

Stephen, Simone, and Jean-Paul

Taki

Ten years or so ago Stephen Fry, an English polymath, stage and screen actor, writer, TV p...

High Life

The Epstein Effect

Taki

About Jeffrey Epstein, who the day before my last birthday did the first good thing he had...

Tim Hoare with Leopold Bismarck and Taki

High Life

Remembering Tim

Taki

He was a Falstaff in his drinking and in celebrating life, but his greatness lay in his fr...

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