Ruling the Mat in Miami

MIAMI BEACH—To the Mecca of brutalism, a place that rivals Marbella for vulgarity, with sprawling, marble-clad palaces, boxy condo blocks, and concrete lumps replacing Old World ...

Daniel Day-Lewis

Lincoln: A Tall Man in a Small Film

With his unimpeachable performance in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (which opens nationwide on Friday), Daniel Day-Lewis seems ready to become the first man ever to win three Best ...

Bo Svenson in Kill Bill vol.2

OH, NO, JU-DON’T!

Taki Theodoracopulos wins the world 70+ judo championship by forcing tough-guy actor Bo "Walking Tall" Svenson into ...

Julian Assange

Who Guards Those Who Guard the Guardians?

In July 2011, in response to public anger at a few tabloid journalists"€™ illegal activities, David Cameron reluctantly announced the Leveson Inquiry into the specific ...

10 Good Reasons Not to Assassinate Obama

America has now elected its first half-black president to a second term, which, if you understand math, means that America has finally elected a fully black president to one term. ...

How Bimbos Saved the American Republic

Another American election has come and gone, this one noteworthy for its complete absence of candidates from America's richest, most famous family dynasties. As far as I can tell, ...

Election Special!

The attraction to Obama was mostly purchased through the time-honored method, fundamental to democracy, of shoveling public money to key ...

Joseph Goebbels

Dear Barack Obama (A Letter From Joseph Goebbels)

I realize receiving a letter from a time traveler can be confusing, and you may believe this is some kind of a prank. To verify my time-traveling skills, I have enclosed within ...

U.S. Army Rangers

Ballots and Bullets

OK, so I did vote after all, my lofty apathy indifference of three weeks ago notwithstanding. It was my son that sent me off to the polling booth. Danny Derbyshire has for years ...

The Calm Between the Storms

Hurricane Sandy's floodwaters have ebbed and the American Northeast's ravaged infrastructure has begun stitching itself back together. Taki's Mag mainstay John Derbyshire finally ...

Jimmy Savile

Jimmy Savile: Emblem of an Age

On New Year's Day 1964, a louche, longhaired Leeds lad presented the first edition of the BBC's Top of the Pops from inside a converted Manchester church. Featured acts included ...

Lindsay Lohan

The Wrath of Sandy

NEW YORK—Trains and buses have shut down, people have been evacuated from eastern New Jersey and the southern tip of Manhattan, and as of this writing Hurricane Sandy has hit ...

The Lord Black of Crossharbour

Anti-Black Prejudice

Ex-media mogul and ex-con Conrad Black is doing press for his new book A Matter of Principle, and to watch him skewer the biased media who try to corner him is heavenly. I ...

Nadya Suleman

Octomom, Please Octodie

Nadya Suleman, you are everything that is wrong with the world at the moment. The question isn"€™t what's wrong with you"€”that's obvious. Everything is wrong with you. The ...

Donald Trump

Obama’s Bumbling Nemesis

Some of my best friends are "€œbirthers."€ So far I"€™ve resisted the temptation to sign up with them, although I loved that bit about the signature on that Hawaiian ...

The End of Adventure

Judith Schalansky. Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands"€”Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will. London, New York: Penguin, 2012. 240 pp. The West is writing over all the ...


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