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January Jones

Bombs, Blockbusters, Babies, and Break-ins

This week brings a steamin’ hot plate of scandal, scandal, scandal"€”flour bombs, plastic babies, break-ins, drunk driving, Ecstasy, and placenta-eating. Be sure to save some room for dessert! The box-office ...

Banish the Burqa

From Pakistan to Turkey, from the Mediterranean to the Gulf, the insidious and colonising march of the burqa or niqab full face-and-body veil continues. Everywhere, anonymous and intimidating figures supposedly human, ...

Los Angeles, CA

Is Los Angeles Doomed?

I’m writing on Monday night, so when you read this, you’ll know more than I did about how badly the Los Angeles fires flared back up during Tuesday’s forecasted windstorm. The coming annihilation of Los Angeles has ...

Tyler Clementi: GLAAD Rag

When news of Tyler Clementi’s suicide broke last month, it outraged all the “right” people for most of the wrong reasons. Reeling with humiliation after falling victim to a vicious practical joke, this ...

Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills

Sleuth and Consequences

Regular readers know how much I detest rightist “sleuths.” As I wrote in 2020 (in a column Tucker Carlson got in trouble for sharing), “sleuthing” is the opposite of noticing. Noticing means acknowledging reality; ...

Covid’s Original Sins

At the request of those who think the Covid origin lab leak theory is “settled,” here’s the response you asked for. All studies/articles mentioned are linked. If this topic matters to you, read the links, don’t ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Vile, Worthwhile, and Bissextile Headlines MARCUS STARVEY According to The New York Times, there’s a growing movement of American blacks relocating to Africa. The black participants are calling it ...

Varanasi, India

India Welcomes the American Maharaja

On Monday, President Trump addressed over a hundred thousand Hindoos of every caste and Vedic creed. Liberal bubble-dwellers were stunned that so many brown people would exalt our Orange Maharaja, but for anyone who’s ...

Balaklava, Crimea

Boris Johnson Defies Vladimir Putin’s Claim to Crimea

About that clash between a British destroyer and Russian warplanes and warships in the Black Sea last week there are conflicting versions. The Kremlin version is the more dramatic. HMS Defender, says Moscow, entered the ...

Could the Latin Mass Save Western Civilization?

The health of the Catholic Church was and is integral to the health of the West. If our civilization is to withstand its current slate of internal and external foes -- throughout Europe and the Diaspora -- it must regain ...

Don’t Stop at Juneteenth!

Happy Juneteenth! I hope you all had a lovely week celebrating the nation's newest federal holiday, which commemorates the end of slavery throughout the Confederacy. How could you not? The media was chock-a-block with ...

Malcolm McLaren: The King of Teen Rebellion

1946—2010 The whole idea of a teenager began in the 1950s. Before that 13—19 just meant "€œyoung man."€ Shortly after the birth of adolescence, came the birth of cool and you don"€™t have cool without ...

Donald Trump

Media Gone Wild (Over Trump!)

If you really, really miss Donald Trump, MSNBC may just be for you! Biden is cratering, fuel prices are skyrocketing (hey, anybody seen Greta Thunberg?), hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens are pouring across our ...

Frances Bean Cobain

Freeloaders and Bloodsuckers

Hollywood has a rule: If it's true, it's strange. Kurt Cobain's widow Courtney Love recently voiced parental concern for her hapless spawn Frances Bean via Twitter. Rumors had been circulating that former Nirvana drummer ...

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Honesty is a Virtue (Even in Egypt)

Philosophy is a bit of a struggle for many of us, except, of course, if we’re professional footballers, pop stars, film actors, reality-TV performers, or hedge-fund managers. Although in last week’s Takimag I wrote ...

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