Taki Theodoracopulos 
Taki is an ex-Greek Davis Cup player as well as a former captain of the Greek national karate team. He has won the U.S. national veterans judo championship twice, and in 2008 was world veterans judo champion 70 and over. Since 1967, when he began his career with National Review, he has been a columnist for the London Spectator, the London Sunday Times, Esquire Magazine, Vanity Fair and Chronicles Magazine. In 2002 he founded The American Conservative with Pat Buchanan. He has covered the Vietnam War as well as the Yom Kippur War and the Cyprus conflict of 1974.
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Busting the FrogsSo Sarko and Bruni are out, Hollande is in, and I’m off to the Actor’s Studio to |
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Online and Out of TouchNEW YORK—I have settled into my Big Bagel routine as if I never went away: up early, |
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’57 Grand PrixThe first friend I made at Lawrenceville School was Reuben Batista, eldest son of the |
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New York: The MovieNEW YORK—Seeing Manhattan rising from the distance is always a treat. I am not sure |
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When Hemingway Lectured FitzgeraldPapa Hemingway’s recently published letter to an Italian male friend purportedly |
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A Ten for Courage and a Zero for SensitivityDr. David Starkey is a great man, a Tudor historian, and one of the few academics who |
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Stung by a FlowerIn the February 18 issue of the world’s greatest weekly I wrote that I had fallen |
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The Divine Comedy: Funnier Than EverGSTAAD—It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas: nonstop snowfall, an empty main |
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Between Love and MadnessWho was the first to declare that nothing counts a lot and very little counts at all? |
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Boxing: From Sweet Science to SourBriefly home from boarding school back in 1951, I went to a bar with a phony draft |
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Skiing With a Lady Named FearGSTAAD—It’s early in the silvery morning light as I look out my window up here in |
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Trapped Between Debt and DefaultWho is worse—the pusher or the addict? I’d say it’s fifty-fifty as they sustain |
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My Mild English RoseGSTAAD—Here I go again! I hear music and there’s no one there I smell blossoms and |
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Mussolini’s Last WordsAt ten minutes past four on the afternoon of April 28, 1945, a plumber named Moretti |
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Bailouts and KnockoutsGSTAAD—OK, sports fans! The Davos irrelevance is over, Gstaad is covered with the |
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A Tale of Two WilsonsEdmund Wilson was America’s premier man of letters during the middle of the 20th |
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Putting Gatsby to ShameGSTAAD—“Mick Flick Invites you to the Roaring Twenties,” read the black-and-white |
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The Sin of Avoiding PleasureGSTAAD—By the time you read this it will be mid-January and all your New Year’s |
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Skiing Downhill Into The Lost DecadeGSTAAD—For a cultural pessimist such as myself, things have never looked rosier. With |
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Thirty-Five Years of SpectatingSeeing as how man didn’t emerge from the caves until something like 6,000 years ago, |
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Here’s a Toast Before We’re All ToastMy end-of-the-year Christmas party was the best yet. The festivities began at 10PM and |
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The Resurrection of ChristmasLet’s start with the bad news: In honor of China’s economic rise, a Chinese-looking |
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The Great Eurozone Bestiality PartyMost of us Westerners are a happy bunch despite our countries being wracked by debt, |
Antigone: Rebel With a ConscienceNEW YORK—Today’s protesters could learn something from Sophocles. A man before his |
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Nixon’s YodaIn a recent New York Times book review, Henry Kissinger says that according to Dean |
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My Wild Week and Wunderbar WeekendNEW YORK—I had a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious week—so good, it took a weekend |
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