Opinions: The Culture

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Part of my job is to pass comment on "The Culture." That encompasses any kind of entertainment (though naturally with a strong emphasis on the stuff that entertains me) as well as issues relating to education, style and fashion, popular intellectual fads, and so on. Nostalgia pieces, which I am regrettably prone to, also come in here.

Date	Place	Title	Topic
2015
July 2, 2015	Taki's Magazine	Don't Sup with a FUP	Drink tea with the bourgeoisie.
June 18, 2015	Taki's Magazine	Nothing Is Real	A half-baked theory.
May 28, 2015	Taki's Magazine	Follow Heart Whatever Desire	Turning seventy.
May 21, 2015	Taki's Magazine	Nye Lied, I Sighed	You should see me in a thong.
May 7, 2015	Taki's Magazine	The Case for Natural Stupidity	Fending off the robocalypse.
April 16, 2015	Taki's Magazine	Cops and Robbers	Good cop, bad cop.
April 2, 2015	Taki's Magazine	A Civilization Steeped in Dishonesty	Groveling to the Homintern.
March 26, 2015	Taki's Magazine	The Nerdcom	In which our author watches a TV show.
March 19, 2015	Taki's Magazine	Quote, Unquote	Wind your watch, check your quotations.
March 12, 2015	Taki's Magazine	Hysteria, Bad Taste, and a Loss for Oklahoma	Why is bad taste a hanging offense?
February 26, 2015	Taki's Magazine	The Future of Girlification	Back to the Paleolithic?
February 12, 2015	Taki's Magazine	If You Were Curious …	FAQs.
January 22, 2015	Taki's Magazine	The Tyranny of the Bookish	And the poor souls trapped in Book Hell.
2014
December 11, 2014	Taki's Magazine	Derbyshire's Desert Island	Eight songs, a book, and a luxury.
October 23, 2014	VDARE	Opera Notes	Tolerance, Multiculturalism, Immigration — And Toreadors
October 23, 2014	Taki's Magazine	The Optimistic Column	Always look on the bright side.
September 4, 2014	Taki's Magazine	Alaska Diary	Visiting the Last Frontier.
July 31, 2014	Taki's Magazine	Red Pill Blues	The ups and downs of Depressive Realism.
July 24, 2014	Taki's Magazine	Sorry, Ladies: The Great Chain of CultMarx	Who? Whom?
July 10, 2014	Taki's Magazine	One Cheer for Meritocracy	Orwell and Waugh: the same man?
June 26, 2014	Taki's Magazine	Of Meth and Men	Breaking Bad.
June 12, 2014	Taki's Magazine	Shame's Cathedral	Visiting the 9/11 memorial & museum.
May 29, 2014	Taki's Magazine	Reason is Racism, Ignorance Is Strength	Debate debased.
May 22, 2014	Taki's Magazine	Confessions of a Middlebrow	Wading for clams.
April 3, 2014	Taki's Magazine	This I Believe	An exercise in clarification.
March 27, 2014	Taki's Magazine	Goodnight, Little Jim	101 improving gems.
February 13, 2014	Taki's Magazine	Baby Steps Towards Race Realism	PC won't last for ever.
January 30, 2014	Taki's Magazine	Dark Thoughts	Some British hacks discover the Dissident Right.
January 23, 2014	Taki's Magazine	Give Grass a Pass	Let 'em smoke it if they want to.
January 9, 2014	Taki's Magazine	You Rang, Sir?	Why do people like Downton Abbey?
2013
December 5, 2013	Taki's Magazine	Meet the Techintern	Will they secede?
November 14, 2013	Taki's Magazine	Seven Hours in Coach	Come fly with me.
November 7, 2013	Taki's Magazine	When the Military Pushed Back	Thd Curragh Mutiny remembered.
October 24, 2013	Taki's Magazine	A Harangue About Slang	Language is, like, the dress of thought, innit?
October 17, 2013	Taki's Magazine	A Whining Pretension to Goodness	Clear your mind of cant.
September 19, 2013	Taki's Magazine	The Lost Art of Stasis	Don't just do something — sit there!
September 5, 2013	Taki's Magazine	The Cruelty of the Overclass	Vae victis.
June 27, 2013	Taki's Magazine	The Cold Civil War Grinds On	Some current skirmishes.
June 13, 2013	Taki's Magazine	The Sexual Harassment Panic	Mars and Venus.
May 30, 2013	Taki's Magazine	Three's a Charm	1953, 1963, 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003, 2013, …
May 23, 2013	Taki's Magazine	Cultural Marxism Demands a Sacrifice	The appalling case of Frank Borzellieri.
May 16, 2013	Taki's Magazine	Ideological Castration	Civilization's front line troops desert their posts.
May 2, 2013	Taki's Magazine	Where the Men Are	Chicks who dig psychopaths.
April 25, 2013	Taki's Magazine	Boston Bombing Footnotes	Ironies, coincidences, and historical echoes.
March 27, 2013	VDARE	Homosexual Marriage: Could the Pendulum Swing Back?	You can't second-guess history.
March 14, 2013	Taki's Magazine	Plus Ça Change	Things don't change much, until they do.
February 21, 2013	Taki's Magazine	The Book: An Elegy	We won't burn books; we'll just forget about them.
January 31, 2013	Taki's Magazine	Spare a Thought for the Late Abandoners.	Pry my KEDIT from my cold dead hands.
January 24, 2013	Taki's Magazine	One World, One Song	My pitch for the 2017 Inauguration.
January 10, 2013	Taki's Magazine	Sectionalism, Then and Now	An American invariant.
2012
December 20, 2012	Taki's Magazine	Grief, Chaos, and Silence	Responding to a massacre.
November 29, 2012	VDARE	Keeping Up With The Dark Enlightenment	My Google Reader roll.
September 27, 2012	Taki's Magazine	A Day at the Opera	Absurd, but enchanting.
September 20, 2012	Taki's Magazine	Heavy Petting	The sure sign of a rational being.
August 30, 2012	Taki's Magazine	Eat the Rich?	Nah — just the politicians.
August 15, 2012	VDARE	My Future As a Zek	I contemplate life in the camps.
August 9, 2012	Taki's Magazine	Si Jeunesse Savait, Si Vieillesse Pouvait	Getting things done.
August 2, 2012	Taki's Magazine	Pathologies of Our Peculiar Age	The 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.
July 19, 2012	Taki's Magazine	Things Fall Apart	Or if they don't, we can take them apart.
June 7, 2012	Taki's Magazine	Embracing Unemployment	As jobs disappear.
May 31, 2012	Taki's Magazine	Napoleon Dynamite	A vision on the Jericho Turnpike.
May 24, 2012	Taki's Magazine	Going Out With a Bang Instead of a Whimper	I will not wear diapers.
May 16, 2012	VDARE	Derb — The Gift That Keeps On Giving!	This show will run and run.
May 10, 2012	Taki's Magazine	Ridding Myself of the Day	The age of distraction.
May 3, 2012	VDARE	The Kindness of Strangers	And a modest tithing.
March 22, 2012	Taki's Magazine	My Mother the Nurse	A centenary.
March 15, 2012	Taki's Magazine	When Sci-Fi Dared to Dream	Growing up in the Golden Age.
2011
December 29, 2011	Taki's Magazine	The Year in the Rear-View	That was the year that was.
December 1, 2011	Taki's Magazine	Life at the Bottom	The bungled and botched.
November 17, 2011	Taki's Magazine	Warming Up to the Sunshine State	With the help of Salvador Dalí.
October 6, 2011	Taki's Magazine	Is the Present Better Than the Past?	Yes, with qualifications.
August 15, 2011	National Review	The Failing of the Fishwrap	Will your breakfast newspaper meet the News of the World in oblivion?
July 21, 2011	Taki's Magazine	What Shall We Do With the Kids?	Repeal child-labor laws!
July 14, 2011	Taki's Magazine	How D'Ya Like Them Apples?	Another skirmish in the Forever War.
June 30, 2011	Taki's Magazine	You're Not Supposed to Notice	Striving to be a good American.
June 16, 2011	Taki's Magazine	Wishing I'd Played the Ponies	Just to keep 'em going.
February 24, 2011	Taki's Magazine	Make Love, Not War	Castrating the military.
2010
December 8, 2010	Taki's Magazine	The Virtue of Selective Mourning	Who loves ya?
December 1, 2010	Taki's Magazine	The Pleasures of Travel	Pat me down, please.
November 3, 2010	Taki's Magazine	It's That Man Again	The one with the Charlie Chaplin moustache.
October 27, 2010	Taki's Magazine	Reading the New York Times	So you don't have to.
October 20, 2010	Taki's Magazine	The Solipsism of John Edgar Wideman	Black black blackety black.
September 8, 2010	Taki's Magazine	Still Bowling Alone	Robert Putnam's hopes (mostly) dashed.
August 27, 2010	NRO	Race to Nowhere	Tear down that school!
August 18, 2010	Taki's Magazine	Lost in Time	Tracking the Zeitgeist.
July 15, 2010	NRO	Jobs Americans Should Not Have To Do	Both manual and clerical.
2009
July 27, 2009	Taki's Magazine	Gossipedia	Dealing with Wikipedia.
May 7, 2009	NRO	Snow on Mt. Olympus	"Two Cultures," 50 years on.
February 23, 2009	The American Conservative	How Radio Wrecks the Right	Where on the air waves is middlebrow conservatism?
February 14, 2009	NRO	Love, Love, Love	Romance heads back to the Paleolithic.
February 2009	The New Criterion	On Being Translated into Russian	On the pleasures of fellowship at the margins of literary life.
January 16, 2009	NRO	Short-changing the Gifted	No more Advanced Placement Italian.
2008
July 22, 2008	NRO	Talking to the Plumber	Living with a cognitive elite.
February 14, 2008	NRO	The Mendacity of Hope	He'll do — the case for "settling."
January 15, 2008	VDARE	Flashman, Ron Paul, James Kirchick — And Liberty	Revenge of the geezers.
2007
November 20, 2007	VDARE	Diversity Boot Camp	Indoctrination at Delaware U.
August 29, 2007	NRO	When Foreigners Were Funny	They still are, but we can't say so.
August 2007	New English Review	Happy Talk	No bad news, please.
July 9, 2007	NRO	Lost Eden.	Heinlein's America.
July 2, 2007	The American Conservative	Better Dead than Rude.	Thoughts on political correctness.
May 9, 2007	NRO	From A to B	The traffic of the world.
March 1, 2007	NRO	Mind You Don't Get Zumboed	Passion and solidarity on gun rights.
February 9, 2007	NRO	Fly Me to the Moon	Astronaut love triangle.
January 8, 2007	NRO	Big Easy	Fleeting impressions of New Orleans.
2006
November 27, 2006	NRO	Well I Never	Never did this, never did that.
August 23, 2006	NRO	Rocky Mountains Diary	Derbs do the Rockies.
July 31, 2006	NRO	Penny for Your Thoughts	My two cents' worth.
May 1, 2006	NRO	Ner's One-Time Revolution	The founder of Playboy turns 80.
May 2006	New English Review	The Joy of Vex	A useful word.
March 9, 2006	NRO	You Don't Know Jack	Getting to know people(s).
February 22, 2006	NRO	The Lotus Eaters	Decline of the American working class.
2005
November 23, 2005	NRO	The Luckiest Generation	A boomer marvels at his luck.
October 27, 2005	NRO	Teach Your Children Well	Am I a good parent?
October 13, 2005	NRO	Does Anyone Have a Clue?	Not me.
September 28, 2005	NRO	Don't Think Twice	An appreciation of Bob Dylan.
May 25, 2005	NRO	Pop Culture Is … Nourishing	According to Steven Johnson.
February 22, 2005	NRO	Down Among the Diversitoids	I mingle with the pod people.
January 12, 2005	NRO	We And They	With charity towards some.
January 5, 2005	NRO	A Day in the Life	First "working" day of the year.
2004
December 13, 2004	NRO	Leading Lights	Who are our intellectuals?
September 22, 2004	NRO	Dear Derb	Readers write: I respond.
July 19, 2004	NRO	Sleepless in Suburbia	In the long dark watches of the night.
June 21, 2004	NRO	Derbsday	Move over, James Joyce.
June 14, 2004	NRO	The Cant of Our Age	"Bigotry and prejudice," etc.
March 24, 2004	NRO	Beyond Tolerance	Derb vs. Peggy
March 22, 2004	National Review	The Abolition of Sex	No sex, please, we're British.
March 4, 2004	NRO	Calling Down Fire On Your Own Position	A storm in a "diversity" teacup.
February 20, 2004	NRO	The Book of Love	Squishy, Tweety, Froggy, Cozyball, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
January 9, 2004	NRO	Britney's Wedding — Oh, the Humanity!	A terrible warning.
January 6, 2004	NRO	The Deplorable Words	You know the words I mean.
2003
November 10, 2003	National Review	NASCAR Nation	I go to a stock car race.
October 24, 2003	NRO	Alabama Diary (2)	I visit the Cotton State (Part 2).
October 22, 2003	NRO	Alabama Diary (1)	I visit the Cotton State (Part 1).
August 1, 2003	NRO	The Importance of Not Thinking Too Much	Analysis paralysis.
July 10, 2003	NRO	White Like Me	An exercise in Whiteness Studies.
July 2, 2003	NRO	Feelings, Wo Wo Wo Feelings	Let me share.
June 30, 2003	National Review	Throw the Bums Out	From "vagrant" to "homeless."
June 13, 2003	The New York Sun	Filial Reflections	Father's Day thoughts.
June 5, 2003	NRO	Justice Turned Upside Down	Britain's gun laws, and New York's.
May 22, 2003	NRO	Journalists Are Scum	And I can prove it.
May 19, 2003	NRO	End of the Line	San Francisco's homeless.
May 5, 2003	National Review	How Cheap Is Your Manhood?	Warrior envy.
April 28, 2003	NRO	The Life	Parents vs. Bohemia
March 5, 2003	NRO	Spongebob Squarepants	Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
February 21, 2003	NRO	Children of a Conservative God	Homage to the Bundys.
February 13, 2003	NRO	Necessary But Impossible	Things we should do but can't.
February 11, 2003	NRO	More Wrestling Than Dancing	What's going on? I haven't a clue.
February 6, 2003	NRO	The Last Days?	The end of a golden age.
January 29, 2003	NRO	The Old, Weird America	Tribute to Hank Williams.
January 15, 2003	NRO	You Heard It Here First	I told you so.
January 20, 2003	NRO	Onomastic Diversity	Vollie Mae, meet Dozine.
2002
December 24, 2002	NRO	FAQs 2002	The things people ask.
December 21, 2002	NRO	On Liberty	Is there a road back?
November 14, 2002	NRO	The Age of Google	Praise for a search engine.
November 12, 2002	NRO	The Law's Delay	Dysfunction in the criminal justice system.
November 5, 2002	NRO	That's Not Funny	What makes us laugh.
October 11, 2002	NRO	Like An Owl Exploding	The Poet Laureate of New Jersey speaks.
October 3, 2002	NRO	Hymn to Western Civ	Things the PC police can't hide.
October 1, 2002	NRO	Hate, Horace, and Homer	They say it's OK.
September 12, 2002	NRO	Niggling Doubts	The PC word killers … and a point of civility.
August 2, 2002	NRO	Unpleasant Truths	You hate to hear them.
June 18, 2002	NRO	Outrages of the Week	John Gotti, Jiang Zemin, and Mick Jagger.
May 24, 2002	NRO	Better Dead Than Rude	Let's not offend anyone.
April 8, 2002	NRO	Excuse Me …	Mind your manners.
March 8, 2002	NRO	A Day in the Life	Civilization and its discontents.
March 1, 2002	NRO	The Ghoul Impulse	Getting to know the Grim Reaper.
February 26, 2002	NRO	The Hidden Hand of EFTA	It's easier for them.
February 14, 2002	NRO	Kill Two Cops, Write a Book	A case for capital punishment.
February 8, 2002	NRO	Sweet and Sour	Not even Mike Tyson can kill boxing.
February 7, 2002	NRO	Caveat Enron	Capitalism, it's wonderful.
February 5, 2002	NRO	How Much Has Really Changed?	Since 9/11/01, that is.
January 28, 2002	NRO	Minoritarianism	Cure worse than disease.
January 17, 2002	NRO	Less Guns, More Crime	Dodge City, UK.
January 15, 2002	NRO	Take Me to Your Leader	Leadership, and where to find it.
January 11, 2002	NRO	Af-Am Nonsense	Harvard's race problems.
2001
December 20, 2001	NRO	Make Your Yuletide Gay	But watch out for Sodomite patrols!
December 18, 2001	NRO	The Pointe of It All	Nuts about the Nutcracker.
December 17, 2001	National Review	Studyin' War Some More	Who wants to?.
December 13, 2001	NRO	The Nincompoop Prize	Don't know art but know what I like.
November 28, 2001	NRO	Making the Grade	Grade inflation at Harvard.
November 22, 2001	NRO	Sing, con allegria!	But nobody does any more..
November 8, 2001	NRO	Dreaming for the Whole World	Why is the West so creative?
October 30, 2001	NRO	XPect the Worst	Upgrade? Me? Not bloody likely.
October 23, 2001	NRO	Emotional Correctness	It's OK to laugh … but at what?
October 15, 2001	National Review	At First Glance	The new world of racial profiling.
October 3, 2001	NRO	The Other War	Appreciating The New Criterion.
October 1, 2001	National Review	Maternal Madness	Honey, I drowned the kids.
September 28, 2001	NRO	Pest Control	I kill a rat.
September 3, 2001	National Review	Do Tell	The joy of gossip.
August 28, 2001	NRO	It's a Woman's World	Males are surplus to requirements.
August 23, 2001	NRO	Scribble, Scribble, Scribble	My new novel.
July 9, 2001	National Review	Stars Above!	Astrology in the ascendant.
June 25, 2001	National Review	Thanks for the Memories	The pleasures of rote learning.
June 21, 2001	Taki's Top Drawer	Playing the Flute	Thinking about fellatio.
June 19, 2001	NRO	Ma, Ma, Where's My Pa?	Fatherless kids on Father's Day.
June 11, 2001	National Review	Situation Normal	I'm normal, you're boring, he's conformist.
June 7, 2001	NRO	FAQs	Roundup from my emailbag.
June 5, 2001	NRO	The Demon Rum	Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.
May 28, 2001	National Review	The Problem with "Zero"	Zero tolerance in U.S. schools.
May 22, 2001	NRO	A Date with Ally McBeal	I watch TV.
May 17, 2001	NRO	Whoever Causes One of These to Sin	Turning young people into homosexuals.
May 8, 2001	NRO	Six of the Best	The case for child-beating.
May 3, 2001	NRO	The Pity of War	Who wants to be a soldier?
April 25, 2001	The Houston Review	How Perfectly Disgusting	Limits to the acceptance of homosexuality.
April 24, 2001	NRO	Linguistically Challenged	Who needs to talk foreign?
April 16, 2001	National Review	Is This All We Can Be?	The modern military, and what to do about it.
March 27, 2001	NRO	Fund Junoir ROTC	The case for high-school military training.
March 23, 2001	NRO	What Kind of Elite Do We Want?	David Brooks meets the meritocrats.
March 13, 2001	NRO	Lessons From an Asian Yugoslavia	Multiculturalism and multiracialism.
February 19, 2001	National Review	The Case for Racial Profiling	A modern shibboleth.
March 7, 2001	NRO	Senator Byrd's N-Word	Congress hit by Elderly Tourette's Syndrome.
February 13, 2001	NRO	Begging Your Pardon	Back online after two months.
February 9, 2001	NRO	Racial Profiling: A Rejoinder to Roger Clegg	My half of a web exchange.
February 6, 2001	NRO	Mister. Bill. O. Reilly	The man behind the Factor.
January 5, 2001	NRO	Race on Wall Street	Cost of doing business.
2000
December 21, 2000	NRO	Silent Night	My system has crashed.
November 20, 2000	National Review	The End of the Ectomorph	What happened to the skinny male?
November 2, 2000	NRO	Son of Ten More Things	Review of readers' reactions to "Ten More Things …"
October 31, 2000	NRO	Ten More Things You Can't Say In America	Some additions to Larry Elder's Ten Things You Can't Say In America.
October 26, 2000	NRO	Cha-a-arge!	On being a Yankee fan.
October 9, 2000	National Review	First Amendment First	It's the culture.
September 28, 2000	NRO	Rethinking the Olympics	Does the Olympics have any point? Maybe.
September 26, 2000	NRO	Aux Armes, Citoyens!	I attend a gun rally.
September 9, 2000	NRO	Shot Through the Heart	Me and my handgun.
August 28, 2000	National Review	The Future of English	Of the English language, that is.
August 21, 2000	NRO	Is Antisemitism Dead?	I don't think so.
August 10, 2000	NRO	She Was Just Someone	Execution of a low-IQ murderer in Texas.
August 8, 2000	NRO	Boomer Dilemmas	How perfectly tasteless.
July 18, 2000	NRO	Madam, You Are a Parallelogram	Hillary's ethnic slur.
July 17, 2000	National Review	The Longest, Awfullest Game	Soccer, of course.
July 1, 2000	NRO	Airing It Out	I jump out of a plane.
June 19, 2000	NRO	Stand There and Enjoy It	Attacks on women in Central Park.
June 19, 2000	National Review	Store of Stores	A hymn to the Big Orange.
June 13, 2000	NRO	Conservative Writer Seduced by Gays	I visit the meat-packing district.
April 17, 2000	National Review	Dr. Laura Non Grata	Dr. Laura Schlessinger's clash with the homosexual lobbies.
April 3, 2000	NRO	The Ph.D. With the Lamp	Nursing, then and now.
January 17, 2000	The Weekly Standard	The Onomastic Cringe	Who the hell are the Roma?
1998-1999
August 24, 1999	The New York Times	A Library That's All Too Free	NY Public Library should charge fees.
April 19, 1999	National Review	The Anxious Class	Revolutions in our private lives, financial and sexual.
March 22, 1999	National Review	The Vital Middle	In praise of suburbia.
October 26, 1998	National Review	Shall We Dance?	I discover ballroom dancing.

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