From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
Steve Sailer
July 30, 2025
I’m not much of a traveler, so my recent trip to North Central Europe for a conference was my first visit to the mother continent since a single day in Istanbul in 2009.
I’d never been to that part of Europe before, so I stuck to the obvious destinations: Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Krakow, and Warsaw. I’m a tourist, not a traveler, so I wanted to see the stereotypical sights.
Hence, don’t expect me to offer on-the-spot insights into the great issues of the time, such as immigration. I mostly stuck to the expensive old towns that arose within the medieval walls.
Read the whole thing there.
Regarding ''Lady with an Ermine": Pets and their owners really do come to resemble each other.
Steven, since you mentioned American students studying abroad in nice places. Many students make the mistake of doing a semester abroad in a fun metro area for a tourist to be in such as London Paris, Rome, Vienna. However, that semester abroad is not going to help on most LinkedIn pages or resumes due to so many students doing exactly the same thing. That gives the advantage to the students who do a semester abroad outside of very white Europe.