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		<title>Goodbye, and Good Luck</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Editors]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Loyal Readers of Taki’s Magazine, After 17 years as editor of my father’s eponymous online rag, I have decided to resign for personal reasons as well as for the health of the website. I took over from Richard Spencer, whom you may remember from his subsequent role as the soi-disant leader of the alt-right, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dream Dinner</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Taki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When browsing the sports pages of the New York Post, a tabloid hard to find nowadays at even-harder-to-locate newsstands, I always read up on the tail end of some sports hero’s interview. I said the tail end because the rest is too embarrassingly banal even for my 7-year-old grandson. The last question is always whom [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Is No Way to Gimme Shelter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Moore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Front]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Americans today are justifiably angry about the price of rents and mortgages. Home prices have roughly tripled over the last 25 years, and the median home price is now $415,000. The 30- and 40-somethings are having a tough time buying a first home. Young families may need to pay a whopping $75,000 on a down [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Politics of Disorder</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In early January 2026, Minneapolis once again rediscovered its true civic vocation. Not commerce. Not culture. Not even ice fishing. Riot rehearsal. Once known as Prince’s hometown and briefly famous for the Vikings’ annual postseason collapse, the city has spent the past half decade rebranding itself as America’s most reliable supplier of moral tantrums, ever [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Warmth of Collectivism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Stossel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[The Untold Story]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism!&#8221; says my new socialist mayor. Sounds so nice &#8230; No more greedy capitalists hoarding wealth. People share. It&#8217;s the socialist dream. What will replace capitalism and individualism? One model is the commune &#8211; that socialist system where people share, rather than greedily chasing money. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thoughtless Experiment</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theodore Dalrymple]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Zeitgeist]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is all too easy to claim analogies with Nazi Germany whenever you want to decry something. All the same, one can’t help thinking of Dr. Mengele and his experiments on children when one reads that a number of prepubertal children in Britain are to be the subject of an experiment in which they will [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Platonic Ideal</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Taki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Top Drawer]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Good old Plato, he was a hell of a fellow. I’ve been reading up on him, and boy, do we ever need people like the ancient one nowadays. Here he is on self-love, a condition that afflicts most politicians and world leaders since time immemorial: “The greatest of all evils, innate in the souls of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stop Pretending That Colleges Are Nonprofit Institutions</title>
		<link>https://www.takimag.com/article/stop-pretending-that-colleges-are-nonprofit-institutions/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Moore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Death and Taxes]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a recent story from the Chicago Tribune that jumped off the page when I read it. Northwestern University is finishing up the construction of a new $800 million football stadium. This is supposedly a nonprofit &#8220;educational&#8221; entity. Uh-huh. Northwestern &#8212; an &#8220;institution of higher learning&#8221; located outside of Chicago &#8212; is flush with cash. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>After the Unipolar Moment</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[The Take]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, while the foreign-policy priesthood was still arguing over footnotes in President Trump’s new National Security Strategy (NSS), American special operators were busy writing history in Caracas. Under the code name Operation Absolute Resolve, a blitz of more than 150 aircraft and coordinated cyber strikes suppressed Venezuelan air defenses, elite Delta Force units swept [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Life and Debt</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theodore Dalrymple]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 06:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Deep Thoughts]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Going through great piles of aging printed detritus in my study the other day, I came across an unopened copy of The Spectator dated 13 December 2008. It is sometimes instructive to look back into the distant recent, or recent distant, past (distant or recent according to one’s perspective), for we are apt to suppose [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Philosophy of Decline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Taki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Top Drawer]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the cofounders of The American Conservative, the great Pat Buchanan, once asked what is probably the most important question about the future of this country of ours: “Can a civilization survive both low fertility and mass immigration from alien cultures?” The answer of course is obvious, and one only has to look across [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Hasn&#8217;t Trump Repealed Biden&#8217;s $50 Billion Backdoor Business Tax Increase?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Moore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Death and Taxes]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration took a well-deserved victory lap last week for repealing more than 100 Biden-era rules for every new regulation. This will save U.S. businesses potentially hundreds of billions of dollars of unnecessary costs. Gone are discriminatory racial preferences, Green New Deal mandates and electric vehicle mandates &#8212; to name a few. President Donald [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Billion-Dollar Day-Care Racket</title>
		<link>https://www.takimag.com/article/the-billion-dollar-day-care-racket/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Scandal]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to steal from the public purse. Some require a Swiss banker, a Caribbean shell company, and a lawyer who bills by the vowel. Others require only a badly spelled sign, a locked door, and a state government too terrified of being called “insensitive” to knock. Welcome to Minnesota. For years, we [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Adult Toys, Infant Mentalities</title>
		<link>https://www.takimag.com/article/adult-toys-infant-mentalities/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Tucker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Bizarro World]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Christmas period has now been and gone, and no doubt your household will have been full of toys for the duration of it—whether there happen to be any children in the building or not. Although many areas of the world economy are stalling, one sector to escape largely unscathed is the toy industry, its [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Doomed?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Stossel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Back]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[While campaigning, President Donald Trump said, &#8220;We&#8217;re a nation in decline.&#8221; Now that he&#8217;s president, the left agrees. &#8220;We are witnessing the collapse and implosion of the American empire,&#8221; says Cornell West. Are the predictors of doom correct? Will America collapse like so many civilizations before us? If we don&#8217;t learn from history, says historian [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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