https://www.takimag.com Takimag is a Libertarian webzine. We believe the best stories are smart, cheeky, and culturally relevant. We take our politics like we take life - lightly. Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:13:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.5 https://www.takimag.com/article/diplomacy-of-debauchery/ https://www.takimag.com/article/diplomacy-of-debauchery/#respond <![CDATA[Taki Theodoracopulos]]> Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Top Drawer]]> https://www.takimag.com/?p=35219 <![CDATA[I no longer read today’s shysters, those grubby-fingered leeches called journalists, mostly because they’re as far removed from fairness and the truth as I am from LGBQTVMGM. The fact that Trump has won has not reminded them of their primary duty, which is to inform, not to convert. Most of them are envious creatures who […]]]> https://www.takimag.com/article/diplomacy-of-debauchery/feed/ 0 https://www.takimag.com/article/hegseth-grilled-by-feminist-fantastists/ https://www.takimag.com/article/hegseth-grilled-by-feminist-fantastists/#comments <![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]> Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Huh]]> https://www.takimag.com/?p=35223 <![CDATA[Wouldn’t you know it? Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s grilling by the Senate Armed Services Committee about his opposition to women in combat would have to come the very week that Los Angeles’ all-female leadership team was performing so masterfully at subduing wildfires. The way things are going, the fires should be out by Memorial […]]]> https://www.takimag.com/article/hegseth-grilled-by-feminist-fantastists/feed/ 2 https://www.takimag.com/article/is-los-angeles-doomed/ https://www.takimag.com/article/is-los-angeles-doomed/#comments <![CDATA[Steve Sailer]]> Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:55:54 +0000 <![CDATA[Home Front]]> https://www.takimag.com/?p=35215 <![CDATA[I’m writing on Monday night, so when you read this, you’ll know more than I did about how badly the Los Angeles fires flared back up during Tuesday’s forecasted windstorm. The coming annihilation of Los Angeles has been a persistently popular topic over the past century, which has once again flared up with the current […]]]> https://www.takimag.com/article/is-los-angeles-doomed/feed/ 3 https://www.takimag.com/article/flame-retardeds/ https://www.takimag.com/article/flame-retardeds/#comments <![CDATA[David Cole]]> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Apocalypse Now]]> https://www.takimag.com/?p=35211 <![CDATA[It’s not that most people are stupid (though way too many are). It’s that they become stupid when out of their element. I know girls from high school, dumb as bricks back then, not exactly rocket scientists today. But in the forty years since, they’ve raised great families; they’re brilliant at momming. I know rugged […]]]> https://www.takimag.com/article/flame-retardeds/feed/ 6 https://www.takimag.com/article/droning-on-exorcizing-tucker-carlsons-demonic-ufos/ https://www.takimag.com/article/droning-on-exorcizing-tucker-carlsons-demonic-ufos/#comments <![CDATA[Steven Tucker]]> Mon, 13 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Bizarro World]]> https://www.takimag.com/?p=35206 <![CDATA[The first question I want answered when Donald Trump takes office next week is: “What’s with all those mystery drones flying over USAF bases in America and England lately?” Given Trump’s admirable willingness to talk matters ufological with podcast bro-hosts like Joe Rogan in the preelection run-up, I’m optimistic he might provide us with an […]]]> https://www.takimag.com/article/droning-on-exorcizing-tucker-carlsons-demonic-ufos/feed/ 2 https://www.takimag.com/article/the-week-that-perished-328/ https://www.takimag.com/article/the-week-that-perished-328/#comments <![CDATA[Takimag]]> Sat, 11 Jan 2025 07:03:57 +0000 <![CDATA[The Week That Perished]]> https://www.takimag.com/?p=35198 <![CDATA[The Week’s Most Swelling, Smelling, and Biden-Farewelling Headlines GRANDMA THROWSES Animal rights, animal wrongs. A new study claims that vegans are more likely to be depressed. Perhaps it’s the diet, or perhaps it’s weeping over the grave of every chicken turned into KFC. Here’s a story of two decidedly non-vegans who were perfectly happy until […]]]> https://www.takimag.com/article/the-week-that-perished-328/feed/ 4 https://www.takimag.com/article/the-rape-of-britain/ https://www.takimag.com/article/the-rape-of-britain/#comments <![CDATA[Hannes Wessels]]> Fri, 10 Jan 2025 07:14:49 +0000 <![CDATA[Britain]]> https://www.takimag.com/?p=35202 <![CDATA[Growing up as I did, in post–UDI Rhodesia, I was exposed early to the deceptive habits of wily British politicians. My adolescent naivete notwithstanding, I was puzzled and distressed by the fact that none of them seemed to have any interest in knowing the true situation on the ground, let alone allowing the facts to […]]]> https://www.takimag.com/article/the-rape-of-britain/feed/ 2 https://www.takimag.com/article/beyond-goodness/ https://www.takimag.com/article/beyond-goodness/#comments <![CDATA[Theodore Dalrymple]]> Fri, 10 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Deep Thoughts]]> https://www.takimag.com/?p=35185 <![CDATA[Recently, I read a small masterpiece of Soviet literature (or at least a masterpiece of literature written in the Soviet Period, which is perhaps not quite the same thing). It was Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya, written from 1937 to 1940, its survival a little miracle in itself. Chukovskaya was born in St. Petersburg and […]]]> https://www.takimag.com/article/beyond-goodness/feed/ 3 https://www.takimag.com/article/the-military-that-cried-white-supremacy/ https://www.takimag.com/article/the-military-that-cried-white-supremacy/#comments <![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]> Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:20:21 +0000 <![CDATA[The Untold Story]]> https://www.takimag.com/?p=35194 <![CDATA[In retrospect, maybe the military should have spent a little less time worrying about “white supremacists” and paid more attention to black Muslims. As you’ve no doubt heard by now, an Army veteran, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who happened to be a black Muslim, slaughtered 14 New Year’s revelers in New Orleans last week. For the past […]]]> https://www.takimag.com/article/the-military-that-cried-white-supremacy/feed/ 4 https://www.takimag.com/article/fine-lines/ https://www.takimag.com/article/fine-lines/#comments <![CDATA[Taki Theodoracopulos]]> Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Top Drawer]]> https://www.takimag.com/?p=35181 <![CDATA[I’ve received a very interesting letter from Nicholas Farrell, author of the best biography of Benito Mussolini yet written. It begins by introducing a good friend of his, a poet by the name of Paolo Gambi, a close relation to the last mistress of Lord Byron, Teresa Guiccioli. Teresa was most likely the last female […]]]> https://www.takimag.com/article/fine-lines/feed/ 2 https://www.takimag.com/article/victimhood-u/ https://www.takimag.com/article/victimhood-u/#comments <![CDATA[John Stossel]]> Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:26:33 +0000 <![CDATA[Education]]> https://www.takimag.com/?p=35190 <![CDATA[Colleges went mad. They charge students big bucks and then make them feel guilty. My new video looks at a new documentary called “The Coddling of the American Mind.” It persuasively suggests that today, young people are anxious and depressed because “adults” at their schools brainwashed them. Students like Lucy Kross Wallace at Stanford. “I […]]]> https://www.takimag.com/article/victimhood-u/feed/ 4 https://www.takimag.com/article/why-america-is-in-so-much-trouble/ https://www.takimag.com/article/why-america-is-in-so-much-trouble/#respond <![CDATA[Stephen Moore]]> Wed, 08 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Economy]]> https://www.takimag.com/?p=35177 <![CDATA[Shortly before Milton Friedman’s death in 2006, I had the privilege of interviewing him over dinner in San Francisco. The last question I asked him was: What are the three things we have to do to make America more prosperous? His answer I have never forgotten: “First, allow universal school choice; second, expand free trade; […]]]> https://www.takimag.com/article/why-america-is-in-so-much-trouble/feed/ 0 https://www.takimag.com/article/reap-on-elon/ https://www.takimag.com/article/reap-on-elon/#comments <![CDATA[David Cole]]> Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:57:39 +0000 <![CDATA[Oy Vey!]]> https://www.takimag.com/?p=35173 <![CDATA[In the 1964 movie Lady in a Cage, Olivia de Havilland stars as a fancy lady with a broken hip who finds herself trapped in her staircase elevator during a power outage. Her cries for help alert the “wrong element”; James Caan (his first substantial role) plays a burping, grunting thug who, along with his […]]]> https://www.takimag.com/article/reap-on-elon/feed/ 1 https://www.takimag.com/article/black-books/ https://www.takimag.com/article/black-books/#comments <![CDATA[Steven Tucker]]> Mon, 06 Jan 2025 07:38:12 +0000 <![CDATA[Lit Crit]]> https://www.takimag.com/?p=35169 <![CDATA[Looking at the unreadable trash that usually makes up the Christmas bestseller lists every year, my general thought is, “I wouldn’t want to have received any of those books as a present.” This sentiment in mind, I wondered what text might end up being this year’s most dumpstered offering. It may well be Taylor Swift’s […]]]> https://www.takimag.com/article/black-books/feed/ 10 https://www.takimag.com/article/the-week-that-perished-327/ https://www.takimag.com/article/the-week-that-perished-327/#comments <![CDATA[Takimag]]> Sun, 05 Jan 2025 08:21:02 +0000 <![CDATA[The Week That Perished]]> https://www.takimag.com/?p=35165 <![CDATA[The Week’s Most Aching, Staking, and Resolution-Breaking Headlines MALAISE AT REST Jimmy Carter has passed, and whatever your political affiliation, everyone can agree that it’s tragic when one dies so young. No one’s certain how old the former president was, but now that he’s dead they can saw him in half and count the rings. […]]]> https://www.takimag.com/article/the-week-that-perished-327/feed/ 5