Could the massive gathering for Charlie Kirk’s funeral become a turning point for the silent majority? I sure hope so but doubt it very much. Let’s look at the problem without our happy glasses, the ones that only see what pleases us. The 200,000-person crowd at his funeral doesn’t mean a thing to the mainstream media; the latter looks upon them as misguided Christian fools at best, as dumb and ignorant white fascists at ...

Okay, the colonials may have started it, but the Brits already viewed Americans as unruly, ungrateful, and in need of a caning. Even a moderate soul such as Samuel Johnson of dictionary fame denounced them as a “race of convicts, who ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.” Wow, Brits are known for hypocrisy, understatement, even insincerity, but this was out of character. What really happened ...

Here we are, back in the good old US of A, and nothing has changed, or so it seems at first. The war against Christianity continues; the destruction of the family is encouraged by subversives such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, and the main networks; and the ripping-apart of national identity is ongoing, as is the violence and the tyrannical wokeism in our universities. The reasons for these disasters are obvious: More ...

Canceling writers is pretty common nowadays, the latest being an old friend of mine, V.S. Naipul. V.S. won the Nobel Prize for Literature—among many other awards—something very few readable writers have achieved. The Swedish Academy likes to pick obscure writers from places unknown who write unreadable books, but sometimes the great talents of Papa Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, V.S. Naipul, and such stand out and cannot be ...

Here we go again. Going against the grain is right up my alley, especially when every single person who has ever heard of the word “tennis” disagrees. It happened last week at the US Open, and it had everyone agreeing that Taylor Townsend, a black female American tennis player, had been the victim of a racist attack by a Latvian white female player by the name of Ostapenko. Gee whiz, if everyone in the media and among the ...

Oh, to be in England, especially if you’re a Muslim, an African, or any minority. There’s freedom of speech in this here rainy place, the kind of free speech that gets you thrown in jail back home but not here. Britain is now the only place in the Western world where whites are careful what they say, shout, or put online. It’s called two-tier justice, with local whites judged harshly by woke white judges, and with heavy ...

Historical verisimilitude does not seem to concern Hollywood writers these days. Not that it ever did. Blatant misrepresentations in the movies are far too many to list here. The bloodthirsty George Custer was portrayed by an almost angelic-looking Errol Flynn in They Died With Their Boots On, while the desperate and homely Dutch hooker Mata Hari—guillotined by the cowardly French as a German spy—was embodied by Greta Garbo ...

Okay, Takimag readers, I will leave it up to you to decide. Do the following acts constitute anti-Semitism? Some Jewish passengers on an Iberia flight from Argentina to Spain received an unwanted message scribbled on their kosher meal. It read, horror of horrors, “Free Palestine.” The message was daubed on the packaging of the kosher meal and was duly reported to the head flight attendant. Salvador Auday, one of the Jewish ...

August is the month when I always write about Greece, where I find myself at present enjoying the Attic climate. This time Sparta is on my mind, perhaps because I’ve been thinking about the man in the white suit of late, and the Spartans were the ones who made him redundant. Death to a Spartan was like the proverbial cold, to be endured but not to be feared nor taken too seriously. All my mother’s antecedents were ...

How many of you readers out there sincerely want to be very rich? The get-rich tip is only for Takimag faithful, so keep it under your belt: You go to something called Seeking Arrangement, and when a certain David Geffen contacts you, take his call. The bad news is there’s some hanky-panky involved, the kind I know nothing about but is the one celebrated by a multicolored flag for a whole bloody month. You then sue him, and ...

Back in the good old days, before anyone had ever heard of the name Kardashian, the month of August signaled the smart set’s exodus from the French Riviera for cooler climes. The great unwashed, as they were then called, would arrive in droves, prepaid to do so by a socialist French government, hence the hasty departure of the rich and famous. Actually, I’m exaggerating, as it wasn’t as blatant or as obvious as all ...

I write this from Athens, the birthplace of the only democracy that worked to perfection because it was the selective type. Actually I am fifteen kilometers north of the city, in a wooded area where the well-heeled spend their summers to escape the city’s heat. It is the place where I was born. And every time I set foot here, Fotis, Kostas, and Stavros come to mind. Kostas and Stavros were my father’s chauffeurs, while ...

While New Yorkers are obsessing over the possibility of a socialist Muslim becoming mayor of their town this autumn, I have yet to read or hear anything about the Palestinian woman doctor who is still operating on the wounded and dying while nine—yes, nine—of her children were killed after an Israeli bombing attack. I suppose if I go on I will be accused of anti-Semitism, such is the grip the neocons and the Israeli lobby ...

Okay, you sport fans out there, The Gilded Age is back on our idiot boxes, and it’s a welcome respite from the garbage that untalented directors and writers of today have been shoving down our throats. At least garbage had its uses before it turned to waste, but this recent stuff...words fail me. When was the last time we watched a black man speaking normal English, smiling, and not using the f-word nonstop while threatening ...

Both the system and the word “democracy” were invented by the Greeks, specifically the Athenians. “Demos” was the ancient word for “people,” hence the rule of the people is democracy. I’ve always preferred the selective kind, as practiced by the Brits until late in the 19th century—when one needed to own property before qualifying to vote—and the kind that made ancient Athens great, an obligatory education ...

For any of you out there hoping against hope that Israel might stop the bombing of Iran, forget about it. Israel, along with Uncle Sam, who now wears a blondish haircut, will not stop until there is regime change in Iran. As oil prices go through the roof, Israel will continue to destroy an unarmed nation with help from America. The Iranians aside, the biggest loser in this one-sided war is Putin, who now has only China and ...