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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.

High Life

Dying Breeds

Taki

A rare British species, a womanizing ex–foreign minister, kissed and told about his brie...

Europe

All News Is Bad News

Taki

Hold the presses! More Germans trust Vladimir Putin’s Russia than Trump’s United State...

Cultural Caviar

The Power of the Pen

Taki

The troubles with the modern world are too numerous to list, technology being among the wo...

High Life

Tell It to the Saudis

Taki

This is party time in Gstaad. From the richest billionaires down to some impoverished soul...

High Life

Crash Course

Taki

Who was it who said we always hurt those we love the most? I did just that last week, skii...

High Life

Life’s Too Short for Envy

Taki

Here in Gstaad there is no worker alienation. Nor are the rich especially worried. The tal...

Boris Johnson

High Life

Slop-Ed

Taki

“The British political class has offered to the world an astounding spectacle of mendaci...

Bitch, Please!

Analyze This

Taki

Everyone’s rather angry nowadays. Women, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, blacks, Hispanics, A...

Roger Federer

High Life

Tennis Is the Best Medicine

Taki

Asked how he was feeling as he was about to give a speech to a ladies’ group, Mark Twain...

Ava Gardner

Cultural Caviar

Legends Have It

Taki

It is normal in the hyperbolic times we’re living in to call people iconic or legendary....

Wengen, Switzerland

High Life

Nil Desperandum

Taki

Do any of you know what a cisgender is? I just found out. A cisgender is a term describing...

High Life

Resist, I Guess

Taki

Funny thing is, I was in school with a man named Ted Widmer, and I recently read that one ...

High Life

All Downhill From Here

Taki

GSTAAD—My annual end-of-year party in the Bagel was a bust. Too many people brought thei...

William Kristol

Media Death

Farewell to the Poisoned Dwarf and Four Pizzas

Taki

The demise of The Weekly Standard was a pleasure, not because I like to see print magazine...

Afternoon Delight

Orgy of the Species

Taki

Let’s begin 2019 with some truths and a few admissions: We humans have been evolving for...

Boniface de Castellane

Cultural Caviar

Speaking of Manners

Taki

Sometime during the 1920s, at an exclusive party at Count Boni de Castelanne’s, a great ...

Takimag Classic

Goodwill to Almost All Men

Taki

Here we are, once again writing for Takimag’s Christmas issue. Like every birthday of ou...

Catholicism

The Errors of Modernism

Taki

Father Munkelt is a New York City-based priest who is as intelligent and well-read as anyo...

New York, N.Y.

High Life

Time to Fly Away

Taki

NEW YORK—At times I used to think the place was real. The New York of films, that is. Th...

Takimag Classic

Start Getting Your Jokes Ready

Taki

They will finally have their way: In the year 2044, only a short 26 years from now, white ...

High Life

Only in New York

Taki

What I should have done is gone out and bought a lottery ticket. I’ll explain: The snow ...

High Life

Grandfather Clause

Taki

NEW YORK—A little Austrian count was born to my daughter last week in Salzburg, early in...

Takimag Classic

Return of the Fifth Columnists

Taki

A fifth columnist is a supporter or secret sympathizer of an enemy nation, and the phrase ...

High Life

Outrage All Around

Taki

NEW YORK—An old-fashioned party is a gathering of friends invited by the host or hostess...

High Life

Never Fuhgeddaboudit

Taki

NEW YORK— I now know it by heart. Brooklyn Heights, that is. It takes 35 minutes by cab ...

Brooklyn Bridge, NY

High Life

Stale Bagel

Taki

NEW YORK—In the dark she still looks good. The mystery and magnetism linger until dawn, ...

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