Career
His column "High " has appeared in The Spectator since 1977, and he has also written for other United States and United Kingdom publications. In 1984, Taki served three months in Pentonville Prison for the possession of cocaine. He documented his prison experiences in Nothing to Declare: Prison Memoirs (1991).
In 2002, Taki founded The American Conservative magazine with Pat Buchanan and Scott McConnell.
He was also the publisher of the British magazine Right Now! He currently publishes and writes for Taki"s Magazine, described as a libertarian webzine of "politics and culture."
Taki appeared in the 2013 James Toback film Seduced and Abandoned as himself. Taki has an interest in Oriental martial arts, holds a black belt in karate and owned a yacht named Bushido (after the code of honour of Japanese Samurai warriors).
The yacht was put up for sale in 2012. In 2004, The Guardian accused Taki of using ethnic slurs, in an article criticizing Spectator editor (and later London mayor) Boris Johnson for employing him.
While Scotland Yard investigated Taki for some of his alleged racial comments, no charges were made.
Fraser Nelson, editor of the Spectator, publicly endorsed Taki when taking up his post in September 2009: "Ah, Taki! Foreign decades it has been traditional for a new Spectator editor to be inundated with calls to show his commitment to civility by hiring a new High columnist. But this time, not a soul has asked for him to be sacked. All I hear is how the old rogue has never been in better form.
This won"t please him much, as he prides himself on calls for his resignation.
But it"s not that Taki is conforming to the world. The world, I think, is finally conforming to him."
We should be so lucky" in which he justified membership of the Golden Dawn organisation, a "Greek far-right party" according to Press Gazette, as reaction to the corruption of the political elite of Greece.
