John McCain

Is Modern Conservatism a Mental Illness?

Jonah Goldberg in his new collection of meditations, The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas and Andrew Ferguson in his latest Weekly Standard opinion ...

George Zimmerman

What if Zimmerman Walks Free?

Three months ago, George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., shot and killed Trayvon Martin. Handcuffed, taken in and interrogated, Zimmerman told police ...

Has the Bell Begun to Toll for the GOP?

Among the more controversial chapters in Suicide of a Superpower, my book published last fall, was the one titled, “The End of White America.” It dealt with the ...

Anarcho-Tyranny

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George Clooney and Barack Obama

President O’s Hollywood Cult

Hollywood's making a funny new documentary featuring a handful of half-asleep champagne socialists who worship a charismatic government leader and then empty their wallets for his ...

European Nationalism: Golden Dawn or Old and Gone?

Greece, the cradle of Western Civilization, seems destined to become either the West's coffin or the site of its rebirth. The nation's debt crisis, combined with the fact that ...

The PC Gods Must Be Crazy

Every time a human sacrifice is made to appease the gods of political correctness, the Sane Community yells questions such as, "€œWait! What exactly did the person do that was ...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Busting the Frogs

So Sarko and Bruni are out, Hollande is in, and I’m off to the Actor’s Studio to brush up on my acting lessons. (Stanley Kowalski is reborn. Stel-LAAA!) My friend Edward Jay ...

The Antietam of the Culture War

It took Joe Biden’s public embrace of same-sex marriage to smoke him out. But after Joe told David Gregory of “Meet the Press” he was “absolutely ...

How Black Studies Avoids Studying Blacks

Another day, another person fired from a prestigious writing gig for perceived racism. This time it's Naomi Schaefer Riley, who was recently fired from her position at the ...

It’s Hard to Win When You”€™re Playing Against the Referee

The Italian political theorist and longtime socialist journalist Carlo Galli recently published a short volume called Perché ancora destra-sinistra (roughly translated, ...

The Son of Julia

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Chris Rock

The Curse of King Martin

Rich Lowry owes John Derbyshire an apology. When Lowry fired Derbyshire from National Review for writing a “racist” column here at Taki’s, he took particular ...

Is This the End of ‘One Europe’?

How Europe’s crisis resolves itself as yet remains unknown. But with Sunday’s returns from France and Greece, the mega-trends on the Old Continent are unmistakable. ...

Ralph Macchio in the Karate Kid, 1984.

Deterring Bullies: The “€œKarate Kid”€ Program

The Obama Administration has declared war on school bullies. The Department of Education recently issued guidelines to prevent what Secretary Arne Duncan called bullying's ...

Crossing Bridges on May Day

How was your May Day? Mine was all right. Actually, that's not true. It started off left, turned right, stayed right, and then went left again. I went to an OWS protest, sent out ...


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