War is supposed to be full of action. Men are supposed to dive over barbed wire and charge at the enemy while being shot. The enemy is supposed to be tough and unrelenting but ...
"You"re so lucky living in Italy," people tell me. "The food's so divine." Oh no, it isn"t. Italian food is tedious"so tedious that I gave up going to ...
The Dictator is Sacha Baron Cohen's fourth and"surprisingly"funniest movie, a definite improvement over his biggest hit Borat. But critics, who raved in 2006 about how ...
Like the French language, the liberal brain works in reverse. Where we say "the red book," the French say "le livre rouge." They start with a blank book and work ...
MIAMI BEACH—I thought it a good time to visit, no Spring Break debauchery nor fashionista pretense. So I signed up yet again for the judo championships, trained very hard, and ...
Partly because I can’t find any large issues in the news about which I have a thousand words to say...partly because my poor brain has been turned to bean curd by yet ...
In Tom Stoppard's 1982 drama The Real Thing, a middle-aged playwright and his daughter discuss Elvis Presley's death: Henry: I never went for him much. "All Shook Up" was ...
The delightful readers of Taki's Magazine have spoken! I hereby declare this week's column to be a Hollywood-free zone. There will be no look into director Joel Schumacher and his ...
"I want you to shoot me," he said. He must have been joking. It was a struggle to drive, never mind listen to rubbish like this, but he was serious. I was following an ...
We are endlessly told that white people are racist and that white men are sexist. But in my experience people of a different color are much more racist and men of a different ...
I read a novel over the weekend. It was Ãmile Zola’s 1880 bestseller Nana. A few days previously I’d sat next to Tom Wolfe, the USA’s greatest living ...
Judging from last week's comments, there are not many Kardashian fans here on Taki's Mag. Though the fuss was to be expected from our highbrow readership, every rag needs a gossip ...
I’m not religious, nor am I a proponent of intelligent design (ID). But I am amused by alleged rationalists who think strident disbelief makes them enlightened primates ...
The Afghanistan war started over ten years ago. We"ve seen maps and graphics on the news, but without Googling it, can you name the capital? What languages do they speak? ...
Thank God for the Italian spring. It reminds me that there is more to life than the Italians and the euro. Yesterday I drove out of the provincial city of Forlì in the ...
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