Travel
An American’s Guide to Moving to AustraliaIn spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of … emigrating. And when |
Mental Health
Paging Dr. HouseOnce, in the years B. D. (Before Deinstitutionalization), Australia’s mental hospital |
Haiti
Heartbreak HotelIn 1935, British journalist James Agate admitted to obsession with a juicy but |
That’s Professor Ozzy Osbourne to You!It |
A Campus CorrigendumA 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 DroneThis story (the title of which alludes to Jessica Mitford’s October 1974 Atlantic |
MediaThe Hoax Down UnderSay what you like against us Australians, there is one activity where we excel, and |
Orwell on ObamaWhile post-poll recriminations fly and whizz like bullets among the various pressure |
WorldThe Diversity Meltdown Down UnderKaren De Coster’s article on “The Standard of Living Bubble” leaves open, inevitably, |
Takimag Classic20th 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 & MeYou have no idea what joy lies in discovering that there is another human being in |
MediaBuchanan & Lukacs—Getting PersonalMay I, even at this late stage of the John Lukacs controversy, offer a few thoughts |
The Customer is Always WrongWhat 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 SubsidiesClearly something went horribly wrong with classical music in or shortly after 1945, |
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 OrganistThere’s no limit to what troublemaking choristers can achieve. I have been present when |
Falstaff in a FedoraIf Taki were a singer, he would be George Melly. Alas, if Taki were George Melly, he |
Un-Killing Whitey: The Achievement of Sam FrancisTo those of us who knew and respected for years the journalism of Samuel Francis |
Britain in the Ashtray: Notes on a ScandalThere is no reason to suppose that this film's near-perfect depiction of nihilism |