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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.

Barbara Walters

High Life

Little Black Book

Taki

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

High Life

Upside-Down Planet

Taki

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

Sir Bob Geldof

High Life

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

High Life

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

Taki

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

Taki

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

High Life

The Mourning After

Taki

The lockdown and its enforced boredom have been replaced by a consistent feeling of loss, ...

Johnny Depp

High Life

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

Taki

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

The Untold Story

Be Careful of Answered Prayers

Taki

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...

Roman Polanski

High Life

Q and A-holes

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GSTAAD—I thought of Nietzsche while the mayhem and destruction of monuments were going o...

High Life

Madness Is Contagious

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GSTAAD—Oh, to be in America, where cultural decay and self-destruction compete equally w...

Vienna, Austria

High Life

Waltzing With Taki

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VIENNA—Somebody once described Vienna as a top opera performed by understudies. The rema...

Tyrol, Austria

High Life

Papou Was a Rolling Stone

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AUSTRIA—I finally understand what’s wrong with the modern world: motorways! These dehu...

Nighthawks, Edward Hopper

All About Me

People Are Overrated

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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

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

High Life

Another Pandemic

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

High Life

The China Syndrome

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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

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

Modern Weapons

The Hustle Is On

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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

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

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