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'''''Taki's Magazine''''', called '''''Takimag''''' for short, is an [[online magazine]] of politics and culture published by the Greek [[Paleoconservatism|paleoconservative]]<ref name="vox2">{{cite web |last1=Matthews |first1=Dylan |date=6 May 2016 |title=Paleoconservatism, the movement that explains Donald Trump, explained |url=https://www.vox.com/2016/5/6/11592604/donald-trump-paleoconservative-buchanan |access-date=12 July 2019 |website=Vox}}</ref> commentator and socialite [[Taki Theodoracopulos]] and edited by his daughter Mandolyna Theodoracopulos. It has published articles by [[Far-right politics|far-right]] figures such as [[Gavin McInnes]] and the [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] [[Jared Taylor]]; the white supremacist [[Richard B. Spencer|Richard Spencer]] was an early ''Taki's'' editor.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last=Martin |first=Nick R. |date=October 19, 2018 |title=Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes has been using the same anti-gay slur hurled in the NYC attack for at least 15 years |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/19/proud-boys-founder-gavin-mcinnes-has-been-using-same-anti-gay-slur-hurled-nyc-attack-least |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hawley |first=George |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/990778368 |title=Making sense of the alt-right |date=2017 |isbn=978-0-231-54600-3 |location=New York |oclc=990778368}}</ref><ref name=":62">{{Cite web |title=Taki's Magazine {{!}} Center on Extremism |url=https://extremismterms.adl.org/glossary/takis-magazine |access-date=2022-08-16 |website=[[Anti-Defamation League]] |language=en}}</ref>
'''''Taki's Magazine''''', called '''''Takimag''''' for short, is an [[online magazine]] of politics and culture published by the Greek [[Paleoconservatism|paleoconservative]]<ref name="vox2">{{cite web |last1=Matthews |first1=Dylan |date=6 May 2016 |title=Paleoconservatism, the movement that explains Donald Trump, explained |url=https://www.vox.com/2016/5/6/11592604/donald-trump-paleoconservative-buchanan |access-date=12 July 2019 |website=Vox}}</ref> commentator and socialite [[Taki Theodoracopulos]] and edited by his daughter Mandolyna Theodoracopulos. It has published articles by [[Far-right politics|far-right]] figures such as [[Gavin McInnes]] and the [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] [[Jared Taylor]]; the white supremacist [[Richard B. Spencer|Richard Spencer]] was an early ''Taki's'' editor.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last=Martin |first=Nick R. |date=October 19, 2018 |title=Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes has been using the same anti-gay slur hurled in the NYC attack for at least 15 years |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/19/proud-boys-founder-gavin-mcinnes-has-been-using-same-anti-gay-slur-hurled-nyc-attack-least |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hawley |first=George |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/990778368 |title=Making sense of the alt-right |date=2017 |isbn=978-0-231-54600-3 |location=New York |oclc=990778368}}</ref><ref name=":62">{{Cite web |title=Taki's Magazine {{!}} Center on Extremism |url=https://extremismterms.adl.org/glossary/takis-magazine |access-date=2022-08-16 |website=[[Anti-Defamation League]] |language=en}}</ref>
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== History ==
== History ==
Founded on 5 February 2007, the intent of the site, according to Theodoracopulos, was to "shake up the stodgy world of so-called 'conservative' opinion."<ref name=":12">{{cite web |title=Taki's Magazine - Article Page |url=http://takimag.com/about#axzz4fZ6OJY11 |access-date=15 August 2017 |website=takimag.com}}</ref> Theodoracopulos said: "''Takimag'' is a [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] webzine. We believe the best stories are smart, cheeky, and culturally relevant. We take our politics like we take life—lightly."<ref name=":12" /> Theodoracopulos, a "New York society gadfly",<ref name=":32">{{Cite web |last=Matthew |first=Zoie |date=2019-10-03 |title=How Gavin McInnes Went from Vice to the Far Right |url=https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/gavin-mcinnes-interview/ |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=Los Angeles Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> the playboy son of a Greek shipping magnate, and co-founder of ''[[The American Conservative]]'', had been a controversial columnist in publications like ''[[The Spectator]]'', and noted for his use of racial and ethnic slurs.<ref name=":22">{{Cite web |last=Bell |first=Matthew |date=2010-05-15 |title=What's the point of Taki if he isn't offensive any more? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/what-s-the-point-of-taki-if-he-isn-t-offensive-any-more-1974383.html |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":72">{{Cite web |date=August 16, 2012 |title=Prominent White Nationalists Fired from National Review |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2012/prominent-white-nationalists-fired-national-review |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gollner |first=Adam Leith |date=July–August 2021 |title=Original Sins |url=https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2021/7/original-sins |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":32" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Grant |first=Drew |date=2012-05-16 |title=To Slur, With Love: 'Ironic Racism' is More Than Just Taki |url=https://observer.com/2012/05/to-slur-with-love-ironic-racism-is-more-than-just-taki/ |access-date=2022-08-16 |website=Observer |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":42">{{Cite web |last=Read |first=Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Noreen Malone, Max |date=2017-04-30 |title=Beyond Alt: Understanding the New Far Right |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/04/beyond-alt-understanding-the-new-far-right.html |access-date=2022-08-16 |website=Intelligencer |language=en-us}}</ref> ''Taki's Magazine'' drew note for its inclusion of [[white nationalist]] and white supremacist authors.<ref name=":62" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=November 7, 2016 |title=Anti-Immigrant Center for Immigration Studies Continues to Promote White Nationalists |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/11/07/anti-immigrant-center-immigration-studies-continues-promote-white-nationalists |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref> ''[[Vox (website)|Vox]]'' called it "openly racist" in 2016.<ref name="altRightExplained2" /> ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine in 2017 said ''Taki's'' appealed to "hepcat paleoconservatives and cosmopolitan racists".<ref name=":42" />
Founded on 5 February 2007, the intent of the site, according to Theodoracopulos, was to "shake up the stodgy world of so-called 'conservative' opinion."<ref name=":12">{{cite web |title=Taki's Magazine - Article Page |url=http://takimag.com/about#axzz4fZ6OJY11 |access-date=15 August 2017 |website=takimag.com}}</ref> Theodoracopulos said: "''Takimag'' is a [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] webzine. We believe the best stories are smart, cheeky, and culturally relevant. We take our politics like we take life—lightly."<ref name=":12" /> Theodoracopulos, a "New York society gadfly",<ref name=":32">{{Cite web |last=Matthew |first=Zoie |date=2019-10-03 |title=How Gavin McInnes Went from Vice to the Far Right |url=https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/gavin-mcinnes-interview/ |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=Los Angeles Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> the playboy son of a Greek shipping magnate, and co-founder of ''[[The American Conservative]]'', had been a controversial columnist in publications like ''[[The Spectator]]'', and noted for his use of racial and ethnic slurs.<ref name=":22">{{Cite web |last=Bell |first=Matthew |date=2010-05-15 |title=What's the point of Taki if he isn't offensive any more? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/what-s-the-point-of-taki-if-he-isn-t-offensive-any-more-1974383.html |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":72">{{Cite web |date=August 16, 2012 |title=Prominent White Nationalists Fired from National Review |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2012/prominent-white-nationalists-fired-national-review |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Gollner |first=Adam Leith |date=July–August 2021 |title=Original Sins |url=https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2021/7/original-sins |access-date=2023-09-02 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":32" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Grant |first=Drew |date=2012-05-16 |title=To Slur, With Love: 'Ironic Racism' is More Than Just Taki |url=https://observer.com/2012/05/to-slur-with-love-ironic-racism-is-more-than-just-taki/ |access-date=2022-08-16 |website=Observer |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":42">{{Cite web |last=Read |first=Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Noreen Malone, Max |date=2017-04-30 |title=Beyond Alt: Understanding the New Far Right |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/04/beyond-alt-understanding-the-new-far-right.html |access-date=2022-08-16 |website=Intelligencer |language=en-us}}</ref> ''Taki's Magazine'' drew note for its inclusion of [[white nationalist]] and white supremacist authors.<ref name=":62" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=November 7, 2016 |title=Anti-Immigrant Center for Immigration Studies Continues to Promote White Nationalists |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/11/07/anti-immigrant-center-immigration-studies-continues-promote-white-nationalists |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref> ''[[Vox (website)|Vox]]'' called it "openly racist" in 2016.<ref name="altRightExplained2" /> ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine in 2017 said ''Taki's'' appealed to "hepcat paleoconservatives and cosmopolitan racists".<ref name=":42" />


''Taki's Magazine'' had [[Richard B. Spencer|Richard Spencer]] as its editor for about two years, through 2009;<ref name="altRightExplained2" /><ref name=":52">{{cite book |last1=Neiwert |first1=David |title=Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump |title-link=Alt-America |date=2017 |publisher=[[Verso Books]] |isbn=9781786634238 |location=Brooklyn, NY |page=236 |author-link=David Neiwert}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Harkinson |first=Josh |date=October 27, 2016 |title=Meet the white nationalist trying to ride the Trump train to lasting power |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/richard-spencer-trump-alt-right-white-nationalist/ |access-date=2022-08-17 |website=Mother Jones |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Connor |first=Meg |title=Hate Goes Mainstream With the Miami Proud Boys |url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/inside-miami-alt-right-and-proud-boys-chapter-10945821 |access-date=2022-08-17 |website=Miami New Times |language=en}}</ref> Spencer's tenure played a role in marshaling and naming what would eventually become the [[alt-right]].<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13">{{cite web |last1=Stahl |first1=Jeremy |date=21 November 2016 |title=Meet the Neo-Nazi Whom Steve Bannon's Site Described as a Leading "Intellectual" |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/11/meet-the-neo-nazi-steve-bannons-site-described-as-a-leading-intellectual.html |access-date=12 July 2019 |website=Slate Magazine}}</ref><ref name=":14">{{cite news |last1=Seiger |first1=Theresa |title=Who is Richard Spencer? 5 things to know about prominent white nationalist |newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/national/who-richard-spencer-things-know-about-prominent-white-nationalist/SSmffIguAxdRIGEGjiWGiN/ |access-date=12 July 2019}}</ref> ''Taki's'' under Spencer published a 2008 speech by [[Paul Gottfried]] at the H.L. Mencken Club (a group he had formed with Spencer's help that year) with the headline "The Decline and Rise of the Alternative Right",<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Hartzell |first=Stephanie L. |date=2018 |title=Alt-White: Conceptualizing the "Alt-Right" as a Rhetorical Bridge between White Nationalism and Mainstream Public Discourse. |journal=Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric |volume=8 |issue=1/2 |pages=6–25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Siegal |first=Jacob |date=November 29, 2016 |title=The Alt-Right’s Jewish Godfather |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/spencer-gottfried-alt-right}}</ref> and the magazine also began to use the phrase frequently in other articles about the development of a new, less neo-conservative, more [[Racialist attitude|racialist]] politics emerging in the conservative movement.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Moffitt |first=Benjamin |date=2023-02-02 |title=What Was the ‘Alt’ in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On ‘Alt’ as a Political Modifier |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00323217221150871 |journal=Political Studies |language=en |pages=003232172211508 |doi=10.1177/00323217221150871 |issn=0032-3217}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":52" /> This term was later adopted and shortened to "alt-right".<ref name=":52" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Alt-Right |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/alt-right |access-date=2022-08-16 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref>
''Taki's Magazine'' had [[Richard B. Spencer|Richard Spencer]] as its editor for about two years, through 2009;<ref name="altRightExplained2" /><ref name=":52">{{cite book |last1=Neiwert |first1=David |title=Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump |title-link=Alt-America |date=2017 |publisher=[[Verso Books]] |isbn=9781786634238 |location=Brooklyn, NY |page=236 |author-link=David Neiwert}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Harkinson |first=Josh |date=October 27, 2016 |title=Meet the white nationalist trying to ride the Trump train to lasting power |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/richard-spencer-trump-alt-right-white-nationalist/ |access-date=2022-08-17 |website=Mother Jones |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Connor |first=Meg |title=Hate Goes Mainstream With the Miami Proud Boys |url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/inside-miami-alt-right-and-proud-boys-chapter-10945821 |access-date=2022-08-17 |website=Miami New Times |language=en}}</ref> Spencer's tenure played a role in marshaling and naming what would eventually become the [[alt-right]].<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13">{{cite web |last1=Stahl |first1=Jeremy |date=21 November 2016 |title=Meet the Neo-Nazi Whom Steve Bannon's Site Described as a Leading "Intellectual" |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/11/meet-the-neo-nazi-steve-bannons-site-described-as-a-leading-intellectual.html |access-date=12 July 2019 |website=Slate Magazine}}</ref><ref name=":14">{{cite news |last1=Seiger |first1=Theresa |title=Who is Richard Spencer? 5 things to know about prominent white nationalist |newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/national/who-richard-spencer-things-know-about-prominent-white-nationalist/SSmffIguAxdRIGEGjiWGiN/ |access-date=12 July 2019}}</ref> Using the headline "The Decline and Rise of the Alternative Right", ''Taki's'' under Spencer published a 2008 speech by [[Paul Gottfried]] to the H.L. Mencken Club, a group Gottfried had formed with Spencer's help that year.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Hartzell |first=Stephanie L. |date=2018 |title=Alt-White: Conceptualizing the "Alt-Right" as a Rhetorical Bridge between White Nationalism and Mainstream Public Discourse. |journal=Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric |volume=8 |issue=1/2 |pages=17–19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Marantz |first=Andrew |date=2017-07-06 |title=The Alt-Right Branding War Has Torn the Movement in Two |language=en-US |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-alt-right-branding-war-has-torn-the-movement-in-two |access-date=2023-09-04 |issn=0028-792X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Siegal |first=Jacob |date=November 29, 2016 |title=The Alt-Right's Jewish Godfather |work=Tablet |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/spencer-gottfried-alt-right}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=June 18, 2020 |title=Alt Right: A Primer on the New White Supremacy {{!}} ADL |url=https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/alt-right-primer-new-white-supremacy |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=[[Anti-Defamation League]] |language=en}}</ref> The magazine also began to use the phrase "alternative right" frequently in other articles about the development of a new, less neo-conservative, more [[Racialist attitude|racialist]] politics emerging in the conservative movement.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Moffitt |first=Benjamin |date=2023-02-02 |title=What Was the 'Alt' in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On 'Alt' as a Political Modifier |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00323217221150871 |journal=Political Studies |volume=72 |issue=3 |language=en |pages=903–923 |doi=10.1177/00323217221150871 |s2cid=256566202 |issn=0032-3217}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":52" /> This term was later adopted and shortened to "alt-right".<ref name=":52" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Alt-Right |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/alt-right |access-date=2022-08-16 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref>


[[John Derbyshire]] was fired by ''[[National Review]]'' in 2012 after he wrote a derogatory column for ''Taki's Magazine'' responding to "[[The talk (racism in the United States)|the talk]]" given by American black parents to their children.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Byers |first=Dylan |title=National Review fires John Derbyshire |url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/04/national-review-fires-john-derbyshire-119887 |access-date=2022-09-17 |website=POLITICO |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Davidson Sorkin |first=Amy |date=2012-04-09 |title=Why the National Review Fired John Derbyshire |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/why-the-national-review-fired-john-derbyshire |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |access-date=2022-09-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fisher |first=Max |date=2012-04-08 |title=The Talk: What Parents Tell Their Children About John Derbyshire |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/04/the-talk-what-parents-tell-their-children-about-john-derbyshire/255578/ |access-date=2022-09-17 |website=The Atlantic |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":72" />
[[John Derbyshire]] was fired by ''[[National Review]]'' in 2012 after he wrote a derogatory column for ''Taki's Magazine'' responding to "[[The talk (racism in the United States)|the talk]]" given by American black parents to their children.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Byers |first=Dylan |title=National Review fires John Derbyshire |url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/04/national-review-fires-john-derbyshire-119887 |access-date=2022-09-17 |website=POLITICO |date=7 April 2012 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Davidson Sorkin |first=Amy |date=2012-04-09 |title=Why the National Review Fired John Derbyshire |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/why-the-national-review-fired-john-derbyshire |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |access-date=2022-09-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fisher |first=Max |date=2012-04-08 |title=The Talk: What Parents Tell Their Children About John Derbyshire |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/04/the-talk-what-parents-tell-their-children-about-john-derbyshire/255578/ |access-date=2022-09-17 |website=The Atlantic |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":72" />


[[Gavin McInnes]]' ''Taki's'' column, which began around 2011, made casual use of racial and anti-gay slurs, as described by the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]].<ref name=":02" /> In 2016, McInnes announced on the ''Taki's'' website the founding of his [[Neo-fascism|neo-fascist]]<nowiki/> street-fighting group the [[Proud Boys]].<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last1=Wilson |first1=Jason |last2=Squire |first2=Megan |date=February 18, 2022 |title=Prolific White Nationalist Personality Identified |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/02/18/prolific-white-nationalist-personality-identified |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite journal |last1=Kriner |first1=Matthew |last2=Lewis |first2=Jon |title=Pride & Prejudice: The Violent Evolution of the Proud Boys |journal=[[CTC Sentinel]] |publisher=[[Combating Terrorism Center]] |volume=14 |issue=6 |pages=26+}}</ref>
[[Gavin McInnes]]' ''Taki's'' column, which began around 2011, made casual use of racial and anti-gay slurs, as described by the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]].<ref name=":02" /> In 2016, McInnes announced on the ''Taki's'' website the founding of his [[Neo-fascism|neo-fascist]] street-fighting group the [[Proud Boys]].<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last1=Wilson |first1=Jason |last2=Squire |first2=Megan |date=February 18, 2022 |title=Prolific White Nationalist Personality Identified |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/02/18/prolific-white-nationalist-personality-identified |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite journal |last1=Kriner |first1=Matthew |last2=Lewis |first2=Jon |title=Pride & Prejudice: The Violent Evolution of the Proud Boys |journal=[[CTC Sentinel]] |publisher=[[Combating Terrorism Center]] |volume=14 |issue=6 |pages=26+}}</ref>


''Taki's'' published articles by Theodoracopulos in support of the Greek [[neo-Nazi]] political party [[Golden Dawn (Greece)|Golden Dawn]].<ref name="vox2" /><ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" /><ref name="altRightExplained2" />
''Taki's'' published articles by Theodoracopulos in support of the Greek [[neo-Nazi]] political party [[Golden Dawn (Greece)|Golden Dawn]].<ref name="vox2" /><ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" /><ref name="altRightExplained2" />

== ''Taki's Top Drawer'' ==
The name ''Taki's Top Drawer'' also refers to a section which appeared in the ''[[New York Press]]''. Edited by Theodoracopulos and Sam Schulman,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/sam/schulman060899.asp|title=Sam Schulman|website=jewishworldreview.com|access-date=15 August 2017}}</ref> it featured Taki's regular [[column (newspaper)|newspaper column]], as well as contributions from other notable paleoconservatives, such as [[Alexander Boot]], and libertarians, including [[George Szamuely]]. [[Scott McConnell]] has also contributed, and the site carries syndicated columns by [[Ann Coulter]], [[Pat Buchanan]] and [[Michelle Malkin]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}


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Taki's Magazine, called Takimag for short, is an online magazine of politics and culture published by the Greek paleoconservative[1] commentator and socialite Taki Theodoracopulos and edited by his daughter Mandolyna Theodoracopulos. It has published articles by far-right figures such as Gavin McInnes and the white supremacist Jared Taylor; the white supremacist Richard Spencer was an early Taki's editor.[2][3][4]

Initially called Taki's Top Drawer, the site was redesigned and relaunched under its current title in March 2008 with a subsequent redesign in 2010.[5] Taki's received criticism for publishing articles in support of the Greek neo-Nazi political party Golden Dawn.[1][6][7][8]

History

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Founded on 5 February 2007, the intent of the site, according to Theodoracopulos, was to "shake up the stodgy world of so-called 'conservative' opinion."[9] Theodoracopulos said: "Takimag is a libertarian webzine. We believe the best stories are smart, cheeky, and culturally relevant. We take our politics like we take life—lightly."[9] Theodoracopulos, a "New York society gadfly",[10] the playboy son of a Greek shipping magnate, and co-founder of The American Conservative, had been a controversial columnist in publications like The Spectator, and noted for his use of racial and ethnic slurs.[11][12][13][10][14][15] Taki's Magazine drew note for its inclusion of white nationalist and white supremacist authors.[4][16] Vox called it "openly racist" in 2016.[8] New York magazine in 2017 said Taki's appealed to "hepcat paleoconservatives and cosmopolitan racists".[15]

Taki's Magazine had Richard Spencer as its editor for about two years, through 2009;[8][17][18][19] Spencer's tenure played a role in marshaling and naming what would eventually become the alt-right.[9][20][21] Using the headline "The Decline and Rise of the Alternative Right", Taki's under Spencer published a 2008 speech by Paul Gottfried to the H.L. Mencken Club, a group Gottfried had formed with Spencer's help that year.[22][23][24][25] The magazine also began to use the phrase "alternative right" frequently in other articles about the development of a new, less neo-conservative, more racialist politics emerging in the conservative movement.[26][22][17] This term was later adopted and shortened to "alt-right".[17][27]

John Derbyshire was fired by National Review in 2012 after he wrote a derogatory column for Taki's Magazine responding to "the talk" given by American black parents to their children.[28][29][30][12]

Gavin McInnes' Taki's column, which began around 2011, made casual use of racial and anti-gay slurs, as described by the Southern Poverty Law Center.[2] In 2016, McInnes announced on the Taki's website the founding of his neo-fascist street-fighting group the Proud Boys.[31][32]

Taki's published articles by Theodoracopulos in support of the Greek neo-Nazi political party Golden Dawn.[1][6][7][8]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Matthews, Dylan (6 May 2016). "Paleoconservatism, the movement that explains Donald Trump, explained". Vox. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  2. ^ a b Martin, Nick R. (October 19, 2018). "Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes has been using the same anti-gay slur hurled in the NYC attack for at least 15 years". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  3. ^ Hawley, George (2017). Making sense of the alt-right. New York. ISBN 978-0-231-54600-3. OCLC 990778368.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ a b "Taki's Magazine | Center on Extremism". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  5. ^ Grant, Drew (9 April 2012). "Taki's Mag Founder Speaks Out on John Derbyshire Race Controversy: 'It's Nice to Be Light Sometimes'". Observer. New York. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  6. ^ a b Theodoracopulos, Taki (19 July 2013). "Black Belts and Golden Dawn". Taki's Magazine. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  7. ^ a b Rothschild, Mike (15 August 2018). "After Alex Jones, 4 Far-Right Voices Testing the Limits of Free Speech Online". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  8. ^ a b c d Matthews, Dylan (18 April 2016). "The alt-right is more than warmed-over white supremacy. It's that, but way way weirder". Vox. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  9. ^ a b c "Taki's Magazine - Article Page". takimag.com. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  10. ^ a b Matthew, Zoie (2019-10-03). "How Gavin McInnes Went from Vice to the Far Right". Los Angeles Magazine. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
  11. ^ Bell, Matthew (2010-05-15). "What's the point of Taki if he isn't offensive any more?". The Independent. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
  12. ^ a b "Prominent White Nationalists Fired from National Review". Southern Poverty Law Center. August 16, 2012. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  13. ^ Gollner, Adam Leith (July–August 2021). "Original Sins". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
  14. ^ Grant, Drew (2012-05-16). "To Slur, With Love: 'Ironic Racism' is More Than Just Taki". Observer. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  15. ^ a b Read, Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Noreen Malone, Max (2017-04-30). "Beyond Alt: Understanding the New Far Right". Intelligencer. Retrieved 2022-08-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ "Anti-Immigrant Center for Immigration Studies Continues to Promote White Nationalists". Southern Poverty Law Center. November 7, 2016. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  17. ^ a b c Neiwert, David (2017). Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump. Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books. p. 236. ISBN 9781786634238.
  18. ^ Harkinson, Josh (October 27, 2016). "Meet the white nationalist trying to ride the Trump train to lasting power". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  19. ^ O'Connor, Meg. "Hate Goes Mainstream With the Miami Proud Boys". Miami New Times. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  20. ^ Stahl, Jeremy (21 November 2016). "Meet the Neo-Nazi Whom Steve Bannon's Site Described as a Leading "Intellectual"". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  21. ^ Seiger, Theresa. "Who is Richard Spencer? 5 things to know about prominent white nationalist". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  22. ^ a b Hartzell, Stephanie L. (2018). "Alt-White: Conceptualizing the "Alt-Right" as a Rhetorical Bridge between White Nationalism and Mainstream Public Discourse". Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric. 8 (1/2): 17–19.
  23. ^ Marantz, Andrew (2017-07-06). "The Alt-Right Branding War Has Torn the Movement in Two". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  24. ^ Siegal, Jacob (November 29, 2016). "The Alt-Right's Jewish Godfather". Tablet.
  25. ^ "Alt Right: A Primer on the New White Supremacy | ADL". Anti-Defamation League. June 18, 2020. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  26. ^ Moffitt, Benjamin (2023-02-02). "What Was the 'Alt' in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On 'Alt' as a Political Modifier". Political Studies. 72 (3): 903–923. doi:10.1177/00323217221150871. ISSN 0032-3217. S2CID 256566202.
  27. ^ "Alt-Right". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  28. ^ Byers, Dylan (7 April 2012). "National Review fires John Derbyshire". POLITICO. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
  29. ^ Davidson Sorkin, Amy (2012-04-09). "Why the National Review Fired John Derbyshire". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
  30. ^ Fisher, Max (2012-04-08). "The Talk: What Parents Tell Their Children About John Derbyshire". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
  31. ^ Wilson, Jason; Squire, Megan (February 18, 2022). "Prolific White Nationalist Personality Identified". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  32. ^ Kriner, Matthew; Lewis, Jon. "Pride & Prejudice: The Violent Evolution of the Proud Boys". CTC Sentinel. 14 (6). Combating Terrorism Center: 26+.
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