Lyncher, Faker, Mischief Maker

When Democrats lose big, one thing is for sure"€”the pitchforks and hangin"€™ ropes are coming out. Using lynchings to deal with defeat is as old as, well, how old is the ...

All Hail Lord Zuckerberg!

The millennial Master of the Universe Social Media is taking a stand for veritas in journalism. His personal playground known as Facebook just announced it will no longer allow ...

“€˜NR”€™ Is Not Relevant

Like many, Donald Trump's stunning capture of the United States presidency caught me by surprise. I had written off his unorthodox campaign as untenable in the age of safe spaces ...

Stop the Press!

I hope and pray that October 17, 2016, will be remembered as the day press credibility in America died. The Center for Public Integrity, a liberal nonprofit based in Washington, ...

Afflicting the Comfortable

By and large, most professional journalists are more than willing to cop to errors. In the course of my work, I"€™ve been able to get Steve Handelsman, senior national White ...

BBC Media City, Manchester

Beeb Fever

If Taki's readers know about Maclean's magazine at all, it's because Pat Buchanan alerted them to a trial under way in Canada in 2008 to determine whether or not Canada's oldest ...

Erick Erickson

Erickson’s Unholy Crusade

There are many things to enjoy about Donald Trump's unlikely climb to the head of the Republican Party. The media outcry, the resurgence of America First policy, the internet ...

Fourth Estate Hate

Let it not be said that I started the indignant repulsion. That honor belongs to Takimag's own Joan of Snarkadia, the great Kathy Shaidle. Her latest call to arms over the ...

Bill Kristol

Kristol’s At It Again

"€œMitt in Talks for 3rd Party Bid"€ ran the Boston Herald's headline this Sunday. "€œJesus Christ,"€ I thought to myself, "€œwhat's Bill Kristol up to now?"€ ...

Los Angeles Times Building

Race and Unreason in L.A.

By any measure, the Los Angeles Times is a bad newspaper. Sure, it's the fourth-largest paper by circulation in the U.S., but that's akin to calling someone the ...

A Christmas Miracle: CNN Discovers “€œJewish Terrorism”€!

Well, I"€™ll be damned. The mainstream media has finally discovered the Jewish Defense League. And only a decade or two too late. But why nitpick? Any old fool can condemn a ...

The Anthony Cumia Network: An Apology-Free Zone

"€œRacist Rant Shelves Shock Jock,"€ screamed the front page of New York's Daily News in July of last year. Anthony Cumia was fired from his twenty-year gig with The Opie ...

An Inopportune Rape (Or, How I Learned to Hate the Left)

Did you hear? CNN took the photo of biracial Umpqua College mass killer Chris Harper-Mercer and turned him white! Lightened his skin, thinned his nose, flared his ...

Cracked Gets Whacked

"€œWho the hell is David Wong?"€ I asked that at my blog back in September 2007. I"€™d just read a pretty impressive essay called "€œ7 Reasons the 21st Century is ...

Defeating the Terrorist Organization Known as Gawker

When four Soviet diplomats were captured by jihadis in Beirut in 1985, the Russians returned the favor by capturing, castrating, and butchering a close relative of a Hezbollah ...

Pylloxera

From Boring to Baffling

The Japanese company Nikkei has bought the Financial Times, and I wish them well of it. There can be few duller publications in the world, in whose pages, unless one is interested ...


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