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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.

Nighthawks, Edward Hopper

All About Me

People Are Overrated

Taki

Solitude is a blissful disengagement from the horrors of modern-day life, even if forced u...

High Life

Baby Talk and Bad Language

Taki

GSTAAD—Well, Theodora did not wait and I missed yet another grandchild’s birth. (The p...

High Life

Greetings From Slobovia

Taki

GSTAAD—The staff is back and all is well, as they used to say long ago in faraway places...

High Life

Another Pandemic

Taki

GSTAAD—Hippocrates is known as the father of Western medicine, and he diagnosed and name...

High Life

The China Syndrome

Taki

GSTAAD—Two years or so ago I had back-to-back New York luncheons with Steve Bannon, and ...

Lady Prue Penn

Looking Back

From Great Boredom Come Great Tales

Taki

When indolence becomes intolerable, remembrances of things past become a lifesaver. Charle...

Modern Weapons

The Hustle Is On

Taki

The front page of the New York Post on the 20th of April, 2020, said it all: a large crowd...

High Life

Scenes From a Quarantine

Taki

So the days dwindle down, September, November... This once-peaceful alpine town is packed ...

High Life

Hellenic Panic

Taki

Aristophanes was a comic genius before the Marx Brothers, but he also gave good advice to ...

Harvey Weinstein

Zeitgeist

The Real Racists

Taki

As everyone who has not been in strict isolation in hospital with the virus knows, Harvey ...

Wehrmacht Choir

High Life

Corona Bologna

Taki

Look at it this way, we’re all doing Desert Island Discs nowadays, and unless you got th...

Kobe Bryant

Zeitgeist

Cows vs. White Girls

Taki

Like everyone who was alive back on Nov. 22, 1963, I remember exactly where I was and what...

High Life

The Finest Decade

Taki

Desperately boring times, but very healthy ones. No parties, no girls, not too much boozin...

High Life

Isolation Nation

Taki

No use datelining anymore, I’m here for the duration. Even the ski lifts have been order...

Lea Seydoux, Woody Allen, Rachel McAdams

High Life

Going Viral

Taki

GSTAAD—I was hoping to leave this virus-besieged village for the Bagel, especially after...

Wispile, Gstaad

High Life

The White Suit and White Stuff

Taki

GSTAAD—I shoulda been a weatherman. No sooner had I announced snow to be a Gstaad rarity...

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...

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