John Derbyshire

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John Derbyshire is a novelist, pop-math author, reviewer, and opinion journalist, living with his wife and children on Long Island, New York.


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Cultural Marxism Demands a Sacrifice

Cultural Marxism Demands a Sacrifice

May 23, 2013

It has been nearly a hundred years since Sir James Frazer completed his

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Ideological Castration

Ideological Castration

May 16, 2013

People who live among words, books, and ideas, and who are scholars, or hobnob

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The Incredible Talking Weiner

The Incredible Talking Weiner

May 09, 2013

I keep getting surprised by my own naïveté. The case here is that of Anthony

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Where the Men Are

Where the Men Are

May 02, 2013

My favorite jailhouse sex scene is the one in The Longest Yard. Burt Reynolds

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Boston Bombing Footnotes

Boston Bombing Footnotes

April 25, 2013

The Boston Marathon bombing story came garnished with an unusual number of

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Why Isn’t Racism Cool?

Why Isn’t Racism Cool?

April 18, 2013

We all had a lot of fun at the American Renaissance bash the other weekend. A

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Capitalism’s Champion

Capitalism’s Champion

April 11, 2013

Margaret Thatcher had some direct impact on my life in three ways that I can

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Mankind’s Collective Personalities

Mankind’s Collective Personalities

March 28, 2013

Here is an old Soviet-era joke, from the subgenre in which dimwitted peasant

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Genes and Smarts

Genes and Smarts

March 21, 2013

A couple of months ago here on Taki’s Mag I reviewed responses to geek website

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Plus ça Change…

Plus ça Change…

March 14, 2013

Nelson Mandela is home from the hospital. The guy is 94 years old and not in

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Quarterly Potpourri

Quarterly Potpourri

March 07, 2013

It’s been three months: time for another potpourri of unrelated items.

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Women Spoiling Men’s Fun

Women Spoiling Men’s Fun

February 28, 2013

The war between the sexes is fought on many fronts, some of them very far

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The Book: An Elegy

The Book: An Elegy

February 21, 2013

I’m nine months out of chemotherapy and getting back up to speed now. I

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Anti-Amnesty Talking Points

Anti-Amnesty Talking Points

February 14, 2013

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. As in days of old, business

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Arriving Late to the HBD Party

Arriving Late to the HBD Party

February 07, 2013

An occasional point of discussion among us commentators on the dissident right

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Spare a Thought for the Late Abandoners

Spare a Thought for the Late Abandoners

January 31, 2013

You’ve probably heard the phrase “early adopters” used for the first brave

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One World, One Song

One World, One Song

January 24, 2013

Inauguration Day is a grand national spectacle, seen by the whole world! The

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What, Me Worry?

What, Me Worry?

January 17, 2013

Although not afflicted with a crippling deficiency of self-esteem, I once in a

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Sectionalism, Then and Now

Sectionalism, Then and Now

January 10, 2013

Some years ago, before I attained wisdom, I got a bit closer than I should have

Lit Crit

Paul Gottfried’s Calm Despair

Paul Gottfried’s Calm Despair

January 03, 2013

Gottfried, Paul. War and Democracy: Selected Essays 1975-2012. London; Arktos

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Grief, Chaos, and Silence

Grief, Chaos, and Silence

December 20, 2012

The shooting at a Connecticut elementary school last Friday was a dreadful

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When Prejudices Collide

When Prejudices Collide

December 13, 2012

Did you ever have two different news stories collide in your head, leaving both

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Dusting off the Crystal Ball

Dusting off the Crystal Ball

December 06, 2012

Predictions are in the air, or at least in the dwindling little pocket of air

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The Quarterly Potpourri

The Quarterly Potpourri

November 29, 2012

OK, three months are up. Time for another potpourri of unconnected items. I

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Waiting for Darwin

Waiting for Darwin

November 22, 2012

There has been an outbreak of realism recently. I noticed it first in the

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Brooms and Shovels

Brooms and Shovels

November 15, 2012

It is traditionally said that after the Lord Mayor’s Parade come the guys with

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