Taki Theodoracopulos

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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 Frogs

Busting the Frogs

So 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 Touch

Online and Out of Touch

NEW YORK—I have settled into my Big Bagel routine as if I never went away: up early,

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’57 Grand Prix

’57 Grand Prix

The first friend I made at Lawrenceville School was Reuben Batista, eldest son of the

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New York: The Movie

New York: The Movie

NEW YORK—Seeing Manhattan rising from the distance is always a treat. I am not sure

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When Hemingway Lectured Fitzgerald

When Hemingway Lectured Fitzgerald

Papa Hemingway’s recently published letter to an Italian male friend purportedly

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A Ten for Courage and a Zero for Sensitivity

A Ten for Courage and a Zero for Sensitivity

Dr. David Starkey is a great man, a Tudor historian, and one of the few academics who

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Stung by a Flower

Stung by a Flower

In 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 Ever

The Divine Comedy: Funnier Than Ever

GSTAAD—It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas: nonstop snowfall, an empty main

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Between Love and Madness

Between Love and Madness

Who 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 Sour

Boxing: From Sweet Science to Sour

Briefly 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 Fear

Skiing With a Lady Named Fear

GSTAAD—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 Default

Trapped Between Debt and Default

Who is worse—the pusher or the addict? I’d say it’s fifty-fifty as they sustain

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My Mild English Rose

My Mild English Rose

GSTAAD—Here I go again! I hear music and there’s no one there I smell blossoms and

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Mussolini’s Last Words

Mussolini’s Last Words

At ten minutes past four on the afternoon of April 28, 1945, a plumber named Moretti

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Bailouts and Knockouts

Bailouts and Knockouts

GSTAAD—OK, sports fans! The Davos irrelevance is over, Gstaad is covered with the

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A Tale of Two Wilsons

A Tale of Two Wilsons

Edmund Wilson was America’s premier man of letters during the middle of the 20th

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Putting Gatsby to Shame

Putting Gatsby to Shame

GSTAAD—“Mick Flick Invites you to the Roaring Twenties,” read the black-and-white

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The Sin of Avoiding Pleasure

The Sin of Avoiding Pleasure

GSTAAD—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 Decade

Skiing Downhill Into The Lost Decade

GSTAAD—For a cultural pessimist such as myself, things have never looked rosier. With

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Thirty-Five Years of Spectating

Thirty-Five Years of Spectating

Seeing 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 Toast

Here’s a Toast Before We’re All Toast

My end-of-the-year Christmas party was the best yet. The festivities began at 10PM and

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The Resurrection of Christmas

The Resurrection of Christmas

Let’s start with the bad news: In honor of China’s economic rise, a Chinese-looking

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The Great Eurozone Bestiality Party

The Great Eurozone Bestiality Party

Most of us Westerners are a happy bunch despite our countries being wracked by debt,

Antigone: Rebel With a Conscience

Antigone: Rebel With a Conscience

NEW YORK—Today’s protesters could learn something from Sophocles. A man before his

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Nixon’s Yoda

Nixon’s Yoda

In a recent New York Times book review, Henry Kissinger says that according to Dean

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My Wild Week and Wunderbar Weekend

My Wild Week and Wunderbar Weekend

NEW YORK—I had a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious week—so good, it took a weekend

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