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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

Another Version of History

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NEW YORK—There are times while living in this here dump of New York when I doubt if anyo...

New York, N.Y.

High Life

Distaff Memo

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NEW YORK—Who was it who first coined the expression “It ain’t over until the fat lad...

High Life

Electile Dysfunction

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NEW YORK—Election-night parties are usually dreadful affairs, with the idiot box blaring...

High Life

The Day the Music Died

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NEW YORK—Back when people used to read newspapers, they called it a “human interest”...

PC World

Casablanca 2020

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If you thought comedy was dead because of woke hysteria, fear no longer. Hollywood has com...

High Life

The Media’s Pants Are Down

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NEW YORK—Election-night fever is heating up, and I hope the party I’m giving on the ev...

New York, N.Y.

High Life

Taki in the Village

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NEW YORK—It’s nice to finally be in the Bagel, a place where the cows have two legs an...

High Life

Welcome to Newark

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New York, New York, once a wonderful town The people are crap and the mayor’s a clown Th...

High Life

Romeo and Juliette

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Juliette Gréco’s recent death in her 90s brought back some melodramatic memories. Back ...

High Life

Goodbye, Cows

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GSTAAD—It is not exactly a stop all the clocks occasion, let alone cut off the telephone...

High Life

Double Duty

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GSTAAD—I’ve been wrestling all week with indecision, the kind that tests one’s soul,...

St. George's Cathedral, Beirut

Looking Back

Lebanese Echoes

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Exactly fifty years ago last month I was lolling by the pool of the St. Georges Hotel in B...

Barbara Walters

High Life

Little Black Book

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GSTAAD—I’m not usually nonplussed, but this is very strange: The memoirs of Barbara Bl...

High Life

Upside-Down Planet

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GSTAAD—It snowed during the last two days of August up here, and why not? We’ve traded...

Sir Bob Geldof

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Sir Bob’s Your Uncle

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GSTAAD—I experienced my first Zoom conference last week, and didn’t think much of it. ...

King Juan Carlos 1 and Queen Sofia of Spain

High Life

Current Affairs

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GSTAAD—The jokes about keeping a mistress are old and I’ve yet to hear a truly funny o...

Ginkgo Tree

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Old Glory

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GSTAAD—Birthdays at my age are for the birds, but always a good excuse for a party. Mess...

Parthenon, Athens

Afternoon Delight

Permanent Statues

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I write this under an Attic sun reflecting from the marbles of the Acropolis and into my l...

Battle of Marathon, Georges Rochegrosse, 1859.

High Life

The Good Fights

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SERIFOS—There’s no high life here, only family life, so I’ve been hitting the books ...

Serifos, Greece

High Life

Isle Be Damned

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ISLAND OF SERIFOS—Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat: Island life is not f...

High Life

The Return of Greece

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ATHENS—This ancient city without tourists reminds me of the Athens I once knew and loved...

High Life

The Mourning After

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The lockdown and its enforced boredom have been replaced by a consistent feeling of loss, ...

Johnny Depp

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Courtroom Drama

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GSTAAD—Are any of you tired of reading about Ghislaine Maxwell and her sleazy life? Bore...

High Life

Death of a Nation

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Apple pie, farms, local movie theaters, pickup baseball games, swimming holes, volunteer f...

The Untold Story

Be Careful of Answered Prayers

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It has been said ad nauseam that when Uncle Sam sneezes, the English bulldog catches the f...

High Life

An Uphill Battle

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GSTAAD—A friend of mine who lives here wants to start a literary festival and asked me i...

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