By Drew Grant 4/09/12 2:24pm

Media and Race

Taki Theodoracopulos with 'Greek Pudding' Arianna Huffington (PcM)

Taki’s Mag Founder Speaks Out on John Derbyshire Race Controversy: ‘It’s Nice to Be Light Sometimes’

“I don’t think he did anything that extraordinary, to point out what Blacks themselves point out,” Taki Theodoracopulos told The Observer over the phone this afternoon.

He was talking about National Review journalist John Derbyshire’s controversial article, “The Talk: Nonblack Version,” written for Mr. Theodoracopulos’ namesake webzine, Taki’s Mag.

Within 72 hours after its publication, the Review announced that it was “parting ways” with Mr. Derbyshire, saying that the author was using the conservative publication’s name to “to get more oxygen for views with which we’d never associate ourselves otherwise.” National Review‘s Editor-In-Chief Rich Lowry said the piece “lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible.”

Mr. Theodoracopulos, who called himself a “great fan” of Taki’s Mag (which is actually edited by his daughter, while dad plays the role of curator, pulling in big names from his thick Rolodex), had his own opinion of why Mr. Derbyshire was let go. Read More

By Steve Kornacki 3/14/08 11:45am

Hillary’s New Conservative Friends

On a hot August night in the Astrodome 16 years ago, Pat Buchanan stood before the Republican National Convention and declared that America was in the throes of a religious and cultural war, with the opposition party pushing an “amoral” agenda of unregulated abortion, rampant homosexuality and unrestricted pornography.

In particular, he singled out the Read More

By Tom Scocca 9/06/04 12:00am

Off the Record

Despite war, terror and economic anxiety, the late-summer stretch of the Presidential campaign has kept turning to more esoteric questions: Where is the border between Vietnam and Cambodia? Who does the Iraqi soccer team support?

And now: What’s the difference between Madison Square Garden and the inside of Lewis Lapham’s skull?

Mr. Lapham, the Read More

By George Gurley 12/15/03 12:00am

Power Punk: Rich Lowry

Buckley brat is right wing’s flapper in the city; ‘normal’ American ‘guy,’ dates vegetarian.

Rich Lowry, the editor in chief of National Review magazine, was having dinner at the Union Square restaurant Coffee Shop near his office and apartment. It was early November, and Mr. Lowry, 35, was in the middle of promoting Legacy: Paying Read More

By Richard Brookhiser 3/19/01 12:00am

The Right’s Ideas Matter, Even in Mayoral Races

It is not true that every editor of National Review must run for Mayor of New York. William F. Buckley

Jr., who founded the magazine, ran as a Conservative in 1965, and Rich Lowry,

who edits it today, is considering a run this year. But John O’Sullivan, who

served in between them, never pined for Read More