John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire

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

White Women Win

The U.S. women's soccer team is whiter than a Bernie Sanders campaign ...

Quarterly Potpourri

Advice to investors. In last week's column "€œDon"€™t Sup With a FUP"€ I offered a golden nugget of life advice to the younger generation: Avoid fucked-up people. Now that we know that Greece is the geographical equivalent of Lindsay Lohan, perhaps I should do another advice column, this ...

Trump-Coulter 2016!

Political conformity has settled like a thick fog over the whole American ...

Don”€™t Sup With a FUP

This week's column is in the noble Derbian tradition of advice to the younger generation. From the aery height of three score and ten I offer you nuggets of wisdom, wrenched with difficulty and some pain from a lifetime's observation and reflection. Pay attention, you millennials and Gen Z-ers! ...

Donald Trump

A Trump Candidacy

Professional politicians are, according to me, such loathsome, repulsive critters that non-politicians are always appealing by ...

Doom Fiction

In the realm of science fiction, few things are as much fun to read about as the near extinction of the human race. Some awful catastrophe strikes humanity, wiping out all but a tiny remnant. Assuming the annihilated masses had some foreknowledge of the event, how did they behave as doom ...

Michelle Obama

The Narrative Gets a Boost

The media here are sprinkling gasoline around in a smoking ...

Nothing Is Real

T.S. Eliot's observation that "€œhuman kind cannot bear very much reality"€ is surely up among the half-dozen wisest things ever said about our common nature. There is, of course, individual variation in how much reality we can bear. I flatter myself by believing I am up toward the high end. ...

Generation Snowflake

Israel seems pretty well able to defend itself; and her enemies don't seem very ...

Two Great Wars

Every nation has, in its collective psyche, a special place for its bloodiest war: a place warmed with intense emotions and turbulent with unresolved"€”probably unresolvable"€”controversies. For Americans that place is occupied by the Civil War, the 150th anniversary of whose ending in April ...


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