Was It The Oil, All Along?
Take note of a compelling article in the London Review of Books late last month by Jim Holt entitled “It’s the Oil, Stupid”. I did plan to comment upon it and bring it to the attention of the readership of ...
Take note of a compelling article in the London Review of Books late last month by Jim Holt entitled “It’s the Oil, Stupid”. I did plan to comment upon it and bring it to the attention of the readership of ...
The neocon tactic of shouting “anti-Semitism” has become a Pavlovian reaction to anyone and everyone who is not in tune with their agenda. Their latest victim is my friend Paul Belien, a political writer of ...
There is some evidence that Poe sporadically had more than just two drinks. What is less well known is that he had very low tolerance for alcohol and usually drank less in a year than the likes of Taki or I do in a week. ...
Robert Mugabe hates black people more than the most technical architects of apartheid ever could and he's never been shy about demonstrating it. From 1982-1985, he waged a full scale slaughter against the minority Ndebele ...
Yesterday I noticed an article in the New York Post about two adjoining apartments off Central Park East that had contributed tens of millions of dollars to both Hillary and Rudy. These two brick-stone apartments by themselves ...
The current regime of Rand-handlers offer an application of the principles of "Objectivism" to foreign policy that is unique in the annals of individualist thought: uniquely bloodthirsty. According to them, America ...
As the Bush administration, with the full-throat support of an unhinged media, whips up the public for a looming war with Iran, a sober citizen's thoughts run naturally to the Apocalypse. One's next thought, inevitably, is of ...
If Faustus was willing to sell his soul to the Devil for sex, wealth and power, Eliot Spitzer, governor of New York, has settled for power— sensing full well that the other two follow naturally. Mind you, money ...
One feature of Mr. Greenspan's memoirs that has caused Beltway politicos to contract a case of the vapors is his statement that the invasion of Iraq was "largely about oil." In only one day, he issued one of ...
No man can create an animal, but history shows men terribly capable of making animals of themselves. To be fair to the lower orders of creation, however, they don't deserve to be grouped together with self-debased humans. ...
There's no limit to what troublemaking choristers can achieve. I have been present when a tenor has simply walked out of the choir in the middle of Mass, apparently because he was afraid that if he stood near the sopranos and ...
About two weeks ago Justin Raimondo mentioned on a blog that Ron Paul's enemies had begun to smear him as an anti-Semite and racist. From the references I assumed that the sources of the attack were the neoconservatives, an ...
Even in some of my saner moments, however, I can detect within myself a tendency of character that transforms me into a kind of Taki of the Gutter. Thus I may be the only writer you will ever read who has met both Paris Hilton ...
In the 1970s, as Pope Paul VI faced wholesale rebellion by progressives in the Church, he wielded his papal authority instead to persecute the small numbers of Catholics who resisted the most expansive readings of Vatican II. ...