Fantasy Island, Libertarian Style

The modern age offers no refuge from the state. The world's habitable unpopulated regions are firmly under sovereign nations"€™ regulation. There is still adventure to be had in ...

Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio il Magnifico

The Italians are obsessed with bidets. They dismiss as dirty the people of any country that does not provide bidets in every bathroom, whether public or private. As a Briton who ...

The National Review Sensitivity Cruise

As many readers of Taki's Mag know, America has recently experienced a nasty outbreak of white racism. While the hate-mongering culprits have been duly punished, it is clear that ...

Punk Rockers Make Good Conservatives

I grew up playing in hardcore punk bands and fighting skinheads, and the political mantra for that scene was "€œAnarchy and Peace."€ It seems incredibly naïve in ...

Hugo Chávez

Chávez: Still Riding the Pink Tide

During Benedict XVI's recent trip to Cuba, the brothers Castro tumbled out to meet the pontiff. But there was another noted visitor to Cuba at the same time"€”one there for ...

Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama

Bibi’s Dilemma—and Barack’s

“Bibi” Netanyahu was disgusted. “My initial reaction is that Iran has gotten a freebie. It has got five weeks to continue enrichment without any ...

Same Election, Different Year

We are facing another US presidential election. The two candidates have been picked, most likely by hand. It is depressing how fast these contests come around and how similar and ...

Silvio Berlusconi

What Is it With You Italians?

Mitt Romney branded Barack Obama's economic policies "€œEuropean"€ in his speech last Tuesday after Rick Santorum's withdrawal from the Republican primaries. As a British ...

An International Review

In the years approximately 500 BC to 500 AD throughout the planet, various societies agreed in some concept of a flat Earth. This was obvious from mere visual observation, and ...

Barack Obama

Obama’s Zimmerman Problem

God save me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies. That thought must be coursing through the mind of President Obama right now as his White House rigs for silent running ...

William F. Buckley Jr. circa 1965

Talking Back

Goodness, what a fuss! The topic here is of course my Taki’s Mag column of last week, which has brought me worldwide fame, though no doubt only for the proverbial fifteen ...

Barack Obama

The Salesman Who Sold Out His Country

On the campaign trail in 2008, Barack Obama was charismatic and sold himself well. Unfortunately, he also sold out his country. In modern political history there has scarcely ...

Justin Trudeau

Shine Briefly, Little Pony

"€œI think it would be appropriate for Earth Hour in the interests of the environment for the Senator to punch Justin Trudeau's lights out."€ That was author Mark Steyn, ...

Mark Felt

The Outing of Deep Throat

As the 40th anniversary of Watergate impends, we are to be bathed again in the great myth and morality play about the finest hour in all of American journalism. The myth? That ...

The Uniforms Came in One Color

"€œThey"€™re racist and they"€™ll kick your head in,"€ a white man named Paul warned me outside a convenience store in Burnley. He"€™d heard I was starting basic ...

What the Hell is “€œThe West”€?

Being recently stuck for many hours in an exceedingly narrow space on a plane headed from London to DC, I was desperate enough to grab that garish British tabloid the Daily Mail ...


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