Taki Theodoracopulos

Latest by Taki Theodoracopulos in ITO

• Literature

  December 31, 2020

  What the Editors are Reading: 'Our Man: Richard Holbrooke'

  2 ½ min

  Taki Theodoracopulos discusses Our Man Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer.

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• Culture

  November 4, 2019

  Twitter Princess

  4 ¼ min

  How long will British royalty, or the British public for that matter, be able to tolerate Meghan Markle's leftist grandstanding from such a position of privilege and power?

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Latest by Taki Theodoracopulos in Chronicles

• Columns

  September 2021

  The Spartans and Simone

  4 ¼ min

  Sports people outing themselves as suffering from mental health problems is turning from a trickle into a steady flow. What would the ancient Spartans think of our modern-day athletes?

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• Columns

  August 2021

  An Especially Unethical Hack

  4 ¼ min

  Princess Diana went to her death thinking the royals were out to get her, all based on lies invented by an especially unethical practitioner of modern journalism, one who would not stand out at The Washington Post or New York Times.

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• Columns

  July 2021

  Nothing's Easy About Israel

  4 ¼ min

  I started covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the ’60s as an ardent defender of Israel. I've since become sympathetic to the Palestinians and critical of Israel’s heavy-handed actions, even as it puts me in uneasy agreement with the left.

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• Columns

  June 2021

  Me and Macho ‘Papa’

  4 ¼ min

  Ernest Hemingway embodies a masculine kind of writer now out of favor: patriotic, courageous, and beautiful, spartan American prose. I first spotted the man known as ‘Papa’ swaggering down Fifth Avenue when I was home from boarding school...

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• Columns

  April/May 2021

  A Badge of Honor

  4 ¼ min

  In our current era, even William Shakespeare is getting "canceled." If a writer hasn't been canceled in one way or another, they're probably no good.

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