Athens & Jerusalem

Geert Wilders is a Dutch parliamentarian, and leader of the Freedom Party (PVV). He, and sixty percent of the Dutch population, “considers mass immigration to be the worst ...

Dredging Up the Past

With the current administrators of the Department of Justice promising to beef up its focus on "€œcivil rights"€ complaints, thereby spotlighting pending cases tied to racial ...

Kayne West Hates White People

When country artist Taylor Swift won the “Best Female Video” award at the MTV Music Awards Sunday night, hip-hop artist Kanye West jumped onstage, grabbed her ...

Creatures of Habit

Whether doing our best or worst, collectively we develop countless imperfect habits, customs and traditions - or “culture” - that give expression to our humanity. ...

Far From the Sea of Tranquility

July 16, 2009 marks the fortieth anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, which led four days later to perhaps the signature American accomplishment of the twentieth century, the ...

National Holiday

The Declaration of Independence"€”whose proclamation, on July 4, 1776, we celebrate today"€”has been mocked out of meaning. To be fair to the liberal establishment, ordinary ...

Are We All Liberals Now?

Kevin Gutzman, citing leftist historian Louis Hartz"€™ The Liberal Tradition in America, first informed Takimag readers that liberalism is the only political tradition in the ...

America’s Descent into Marxism

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless ...

Whiteout

Thanks to a group of disgruntled firemen, the question of what it means to be white is back in the news. By late June, the Supreme Court will decide whether the city of New Haven, ...

Richard Neuhaus”€”The Failures of a “€œPublic Intellectual”€

Under Discussion: American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile, Richard John Neuhaus, Basic Books (2009), 270 pages. Richard Neuhaus, the recently deceased editor of First ...

Rendering Unto Caesar

At the request of the White House, Georgetown University covered up all the symbols in Gaston Hall, before the Great Man spoke, including IHS, the millennia-old monogram for the ...

America’s One-Way Conversation on Race

During a speech in honor of Black History Month, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said last week that America is a "€œnation of cowards"€ because we "€œsimply do not talk ...

A Saint on Capitol Hill

When one reads the new atheists, one gets the impression that the influence of Christianity has been entirely baleful, that Christianity’s contribution to morality has been ...

The War on the High Life

The Damn Boomers Are Ruining All the Fun! In the midst of all the bad news"€”political, economic, and military"€”clustering around the memory of 2008 and the first few weeks ...

Reefer Madness

When Michael Phelps was awarded a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, it was a moment of great pride for the young swimming champion and his country. Phelps ...

Four Fashion Trends That Must Be Nuked in 2009

I’m still a youngster"€”right on the borderline between Baby Boomer and Generation Xer. I’m considered to be cool, I still say “hip,” but I’m ...


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