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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.

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

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

Wengen, Switzerland

High Life

Nil Desperandum

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

Politics

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

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

William Kristol

Politics

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...

Cultural Caviar

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

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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...

Politics

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

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

High Life

Grandfather Clause

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

Takimag Classic

Return of the Fifth Columnists

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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

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

New York, NY

High Life

Watch Your Mouth

Taki

There is fear and loathing in this city, with men looking over their shoulders for the tho...

Scandal

The World Looks the Other Way

Taki

Is Mohammad bin Salman a murderer? Is it fair to say he is a hairy coward who has starved ...

Countess Maya von Schoenburg

High Life

Teutonic Tales

Taki

The bells are ringing, the bells are ringing, ding-dong, ding-dong. The cows are down from...

Ronan Farrow

Politics

London, Under One Condition

Taki

To London for much too brief a visit for a wedding, lunch with commodore Tim Hoare, and a ...

High Life

Soc, Witt, and Taki

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The grandest view of Gstaad and the surrounding Saanen valley bar none—and that includes...

High Life

Who the Hell is Manny Klein?

Taki

Perception and reality, truth and falsehood, black and white; nowadays the salivating chat...

Serena Williams

High Life

Reading and Raging

Taki

A letter from a reader in South Africa mentions that the writer’s father insisted a whit...

Politics

PC Marches On

Taki

Some of you oldies will never believe this, but London is no longer the place of The Blue ...

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