Don’tcha Just Hate It When the Neo-Nazis Are Right?

Did I ever tell you about the time I had dinner with a war criminal? It’s not exactly my funniest story, but it’s still somewhat instructive. It was September 1992. The United ...

The Ignorance of Trump’s Moralizing Critics

If there is one thing we can count on in our age of expert ignorance, it is that experts in their intellectual and moral smugness will offer opinions that, if acted on, would ...

Google “Internet,” Media!

Journalists know absolutely nothing about immigration and refuse to learn, so when I cited the fraudulent “humanitarian” cases on TV Sunday night, I footnoted myself ...

Trump and the Invasion of the West

“It is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart,” says former first lady Laura Bush of the Trump administration policy of “zero tolerance,” under which ...

Meanwhile, 10 Miles from the White House

Now that Trump has solved Northeast Asia’s problems, maybe he can get to a problem in our country—in fact, within 10 miles of the White House. For some reason, The ...

The Irish Aren’t Red-Headed Mexicans

In an interview with NPR last Friday, Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly described the illegal aliens pouring across our border in the most gentle manner imaginable. He said ...

The Eternal Lure of Nationalism

In a surprise overtime victory in the finals of the Olympic men’s hockey tournament, the Russians defeated Germany, 4-3. But the Russians were not permitted to have their ...

Thurmond, West Virginia

David Brooks Demands New, Improved Americans 2.0

As I predicted in my two previous Taki’s columns, the Trump administration offered to Democrats an extremely moderate and generous compromise immigration package. Trump proposed ...

Trump: In Immigration Debate, Race Matters

President Trump “said things which were hate-filled, vile and racist. ... I cannot believe ... any president has ever spoken the words that I ... heard our president speak ...

Immigration and the Tragic Sense of Life

Like much of the world, El Salvador is an unhappy place. Poverty and gang violence abound. And Mother Nature can be cruel. The country was ravaged by a couple of earthquakes in ...

The Zeroth Amendment

A little-known survey revealed the single most decisive reason Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton: White Democrats have drifted into ideological extremism over not regulating ...

The Case for Continentalism

Remarkably, European solidarity, once the progressive cause par excellence, is increasingly viewed as hateful racism, as suggested by the conventional wisdom's berserk reaction to ...

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Alone Perhaps, but Is Trump Right?

At the G-20 in Hamburg, it is said, President Trump was isolated, without support from the other G-20 members, especially on climate change and trade. Perhaps so. But the crucial ...

The Forever War?

On May 22, Salman Abedi, 22, waiting at the entrance of the Ariana Grande pop concert in Manchester, blew himself up, killing almost two dozen people, among them parents waiting ...

Angela Merkel

The Genetic Dead Ends Who Rule Europe

When France decided to slit its own throat last week and elect the childless Emmanuel Macron as its president over the bustier and more fecund Marine Le Pen, it made him the ninth ...

We Are All Mongrels

Byron Rogers, a journalist whose work I always enjoy, has a nice story about some discovery relating perhaps to King Arthur that spawned a conference that caught the attention of ...


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