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The Week That Perished

6 days ago | takimag.com | Theodore Dalrymple

The Week’s Most Papal-Votey, $1,000-Notey, and Gonna-Need-a-Bigger-Boaty HeadlinesKARMELO: NEITHER CALM, NOR MELLOWThe ongoing online fundraiser for accused black teenage knife-killer Karmelo Anthony has now raised more than $500,000. His family has been criticized for blowing much of it on moving into a new house and surrounding it with security guards to protect themselves from constant death threats, but what were they supposed to do?
May God Help Us!

6 days ago | takimag.com | Theodore Dalrymple

This is the saddest column I’ve had to write in fifty years: Two million Palestinians in Gaza, nearly half of them children, are now surviving eating once a day, if that, every two or three days. America’s great ally Israel is imposing the starvation as a tool of war, something not even Nazi Germany forced upon conquered people. Senior Israeli officials openly and unashamedly exploit starvation as a tactic to pressure Hamas to release the rest of the hostages.
Bad Language

1 week ago | takimag.com | Theodore Dalrymple

The only interesting question for me about insurance, health, or otherwise is whether the insurance companies or their clients are the more dishonest. No doubt there is a dialectical relationship between them; I have always rather casually supposed that insurance companies don’t really mind fraudulent claims because they can pass on the costs (plus a percentage) to their clients.
Barnaby and Red

1 week ago | takimag.com | Theodore Dalrymple

The opening sentence of a book can make or break it at times. Herman Melville’s “Call me Ishmael” intrigued to no end. No, it wasn’t Captain Ahab speaking but a minor character in the hard-to-read novel. The great Jane Austen’s “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a great fortune,” and so on really got the ball rolling for Pride and Prejudice.
Semitical Thinking

1 week ago | takimag.com | Steve Sailer

A number of own goals by the Trump administration led to Democratic resistance finally stiffening in April. Yet Trump’s impressively aggressive war on wokeness continues to steamroll along at a remarkable pace, considering how, until last November’s election, diversity seemed almost universally proclaimed to be America’s most sacred fetish.
Good Intentions: Bad Results

1 week ago | takimag.com | John Stossel

Government makes most things worse. Lyndon Johnson launched a War on Poverty; Richard Nixon a War on Drugs. Both had good intentions, but their “wars” do more harm than good. I believed the War on Poverty would lift people out of poverty. At the time I was a naive Princeton student who believed my professors when they said, “It’s wrong that in this rich country, people are poor, so government should fix that. Targeted programs will lift people out of poverty.”Have they?
The Week That Perished

1 week ago | takimag.com | Theodore Dalrymple

The Week’s Spermiest, Pink-Wormiest, and Clearly-Made-Up-Termiest HeadlinesPC LANGUAGEAs we all know, it’s always better to flick the arm with an old banana: Artificial intelligence proves it. A new investigation has revealed the amusing propensity of Google’s response-generating online AI chatbot, Gemini, to over-trustingly take people’s word for it whenever they ask the thing a trick question that is actually predicated upon a wholly false premise.
Right on Queue

2 weeks ago | takimag.com | Theodore Dalrymple

Consider the humble bus queue, what it tells us. People line up waiting for a bus to arrive and sometimes are disappointed because the bus is so full that there is not room for all of them. If the driver says that there is room for only five, it is the first five in the line who get on. No one complains of this; it seems perfectly natural to them. But it isn’t, as we shall soon see.
Paper Tigers

2 weeks ago | takimag.com | Theodore Dalrymple |Taki Theodoracopulos

“Protect America from America’s President,” screams a New York Times headline. “His officers grab people off the streets,” rants a columnist whose name reminds me of the nice doctor who administers colonoscopies. (Mind you, colonoscopies can benefit one; left-wing buffoons like Times columnists do not benefit anyone.) It is obvious even to the simpleminded that criminals are grabbed at times off the streets. As are illegal migrant criminals that Biden and his gang all but invited in.
Living Hell?

2 weeks ago | takimag.com | John Stossel

“Climate change will make earth a living hell!” claims popular astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson. I don’t believe him. The media say, “All Arctic ice will soon melt away! Polar bears are dying off! Global warming causes food shortages!”Bunk, bunk, bunk. They are addicted to scaring us. My new video covers four more myths about climate change:Myth 1: It’s worsening droughts.