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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.

Conrad Black

High Life

Black’s Life Matters

Taki

Goody, goody gumdrops! The Donald has pardoned Lord Black and I couldn’t be happier. Con...

Grand Central Station

High Life

Adios, Manhattan

Taki

This is my last week in the Bagel and I’m going to give it the old college try. Two week...

Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Helen Tamiris

High Life

Actually Great Theater

Taki

Here’s a question for you: If your wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, even toy boy li...

High Life

Big Man on Campus

Taki

Charlottesville is an enchanting Virginia college town graced by the neoclassical architec...

Maya Angelou Street Art, Montreal

Zeitgeist

Just Say No to Saying Sorry

Taki

Woke is the concept that everything must be inclusive and inoffensive. Oh dear! Being hype...

High Life

Feel Free Again

Taki

NEW YORK—David Niven’s younger son Jamie, now an old man like yours truly and a bit ov...

High Life

What’s the Next Fake News?

Taki

NEW YORK—On April 21, 1980, Rosie Ruiz won the fabled Boston Marathon in record time and...

The Untold Story

National Reckoning, My Eye

Taki

Okay, sports fans, get your wallets out and start giving. That’s the latest brainstorm f...

High Life

We’re All Harvey Weinsteins Now

Taki

Okay, chaps, keep your hands where people can see them, and don’t touch. And try not to ...

High Life

A Tale of Extravagant Greed

Taki

I first met the man whose opioid products have supposedly killed 200,000 Americans 51 year...

Manhattan, N.Y.

High Life

One Bad Apple

Taki

NEW YORK—This place feels funny, a bit like Beirut, where Christians, Muslims, Druze, an...

New York

High Life

Nothing but Phonies

Taki

NEW YORK CITY—Goodbye, snowcapped peaks; hello, swampy brown East River. So long, fresh ...

High Life

Taki Jokes

Taki

As Emperor Maximilian told his convulsed-by-tears servants while he was about to be execut...

High Life

Put the Grandkids in Charge

Taki

As everyone knows, the definition of serendipity is searching for a needle in a haystack, ...

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 ...

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