Travel

An American’s Guide to Moving to Australia

An American’s Guide to Moving to Australia

In spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of … emigrating. And when

Mental Health

Paging Dr. House

Paging Dr. House

Once, in the years B. D. (Before Deinstitutionalization), Australia’s mental hospital

Haiti

Heartbreak Hotel

Heartbreak Hotel

In 1935, British journalist James Agate admitted to obsession with a juicy but

That’s Professor Ozzy Osbourne to You!

It

A Campus Corrigendum

A compatriot of mine, and a regular Takimag reader, has written to me to point out that

Torture

My Short Happy Life As a Knowledge Management Drone

My Short Happy Life As a Knowledge Management Drone

This story (the title of which alludes to Jessica Mitford’s October 1974 Atlantic

Media

The Hoax Down Under

Say what you like against us Australians, there is one activity where we excel, and

Orwell on Obama

While post-poll recriminations fly and whizz like bullets among the various pressure

World

The Diversity Meltdown Down Under

Karen De Coster’s article on “The Standard of Living Bubble” leaves open, inevitably,

Takimag Classic

20th Century Music—What Went Wrong?

The tale is told by M. F. Barnes, in her 1931 study Renaissance Vistas (and it has

Remembrance

Sam Francis & Me

Sam Francis & Me

You have no idea what joy lies in discovering that there is another human being in

Media

Buchanan & Lukacs—Getting Personal

May I, even at this late stage of the John Lukacs controversy, offer a few thoughts

The Customer is Always Wrong

The Customer is Always Wrong

What is lacking in Peter Gay's account of modern art is a serious effort (or any effort)

The Death of Music by the Spirit of Government Subsidies

The Death of Music by the Spirit of Government Subsidies

Clearly something went horribly wrong with classical music in or shortly after 1945,

Did I Kill Robert Lowell?

Did I Kill Robert Lowell?

I knew nothing of Lowell. I knew nothing of poetry, other than the sub rosa collection of

Confessions of an Australian Organist

Confessions of an Australian Organist

There’s no limit to what troublemaking choristers can achieve. I have been present when

Falstaff in a Fedora

If Taki were a singer, he would be George Melly. Alas, if Taki were George Melly, he

Un-Killing Whitey: The Achievement of Sam Francis

To those of us who knew and respected for years the journalism of Samuel Francis

Britain in the Ashtray: Notes on a Scandal

There is no reason to suppose that this film's near-perfect depiction of nihilism