Taki Taki

High life

Taki lives the High Life

issue 18 September 2010

Gstaad

The new look requires a new, improved Taki. From now on gravitas will be my middle name. There will be no more of this jet-set stuff. Constant classical themes will mix with references to songs by Schubert, and stories inspired by Horace and Racine. Taki the social commentator is dead; long live Taki the philosopher, humanist and classical scholar. (And if you believe that, it’s time for the men in white coats.) But let me try, for this time only at least, to justify my new middle name.

Eight years ago Pat Buchanan, Scott McConnell and I founded the American Conservative, a national biweekly whose purpose was to expose what nation-building does to those stupid enough to want to build. It was my idea and I put up the moolah, Pat lent his famous name, and Scott edited.

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