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 ...
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 ...
Taki Theodoracopulos wins the world 70+ judo championship by forcing tough-guy actor Bo "Walking Tall" Svenson into ...
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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
The attraction to Obama was mostly purchased through the time-honored method, fundamental to democracy, of shoveling public money to key ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, 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 ...
Some of my best friends are "birthers." So far I"ve resisted the temptation to sign up with them, although I loved that bit about the signature on that Hawaiian ...
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 ...