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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Free to Be a Communist

Free to Be a Communist

October 25, 2012

I was reading one of the angrier conservative bloggers the other day when I

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The One-Party State

The One-Party State

October 18, 2012

In modern Anglo democracies, no more than one national election in ten offers a

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Anniversary of a Defenestration, Part II

Anniversary of a Defenestration, Part II

October 11, 2012

As promised last week, here is Part II of random ruminations on my fifteen

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Anniversary of a Defenestration

Anniversary of a Defenestration

October 04, 2012

This coming weekend marks the six-month anniversary of my fifteen minutes of

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A Day at the Opera

A Day at the Opera

September 27, 2012

I had my weekend nicely planned. Saturday: small catch-up stuff, paperwork, and

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Heavy Petting

Heavy Petting

September 20, 2012

In 1957 the Australian sci-fi writer Bertram Chandler—probably the only

Culture Clash

Losing Our Turbulence

Losing Our Turbulence

September 13, 2012

The country of my birth no longer much resembles the country of my birth,

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White People Are Pussies

White People Are Pussies

September 06, 2012

On a call-in radio program recently, we had been airing my infamous assertion

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Eat the Rich?

Eat the Rich?

August 30, 2012

Ah, the rich. The rich, as used to be said of the poor, are always with

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Odds, Sods, & Gods

Odds, Sods, & Gods

August 16, 2012

It’s been three months since I did a potpourri of unconnected items, so I shall

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Si Jeunesse Savait, Si Vieillesse Pouvait

Si Jeunesse Savait, Si Vieillesse Pouvait

August 09, 2012

Back on July 19th I wrote about taking the family shotgun apart. Curious

London 2012

Pathologies of Our Peculiar Age

Pathologies of Our Peculiar Age

August 02, 2012

The USA, I’m sorry to see, is currently behind China in gold medals,

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Birth of a Civil War Buff

Birth of a Civil War Buff

July 26, 2012

Growing up in England, one didn’t hear much about the American Civil War.

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Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

July 19, 2012

Or if they don’t, we can take them apart. We do not want the bolt lock pin to

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NAMs Kill NAMs, and They Blame the Pilgrims

NAMs Kill NAMs, and They Blame the Pilgrims

July 12, 2012

Back in 1982 a faction of Lebanese Arabs massacred Palestinian Arabs at two

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Down and Out in Laos

Down and Out in Laos

July 05, 2012

It’s a slow news week and I’m temporarily out of outrageous opinions, so here

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Partying With the Right Side on the Left Coast

Partying With the Right Side on the Left Coast

June 28, 2012

I am just recovering from a splendid weekend in Seattle, a conference organized

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Places White People Like

Places White People Like

June 14, 2012

I hadn’t read The Smithsonian for years. Back in the 1970s I actually

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Embracing Unemployment

Embracing Unemployment

June 07, 2012

We had better start learning to embrace unemployment. There aren’t that many

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Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite

May 31, 2012

My lifetime engagement with the pharmaceutical industry has been minimal. This,

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Going out With a Bang Instead of a Whimper

Going out With a Bang Instead of a Whimper

May 24, 2012

As I was stuck in New York’s Pennsylvania Station (“lead us not into Penn

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It’s My Column and I’ll Write What I Want To

It’s My Column and I’ll Write What I Want To

May 17, 2012

Partly because I can’t find any large issues in the news about which I have a

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Ridding Myself of the Day

Ridding Myself of the Day

May 10, 2012

I read a novel over the weekend. It was Émile Zola’s 1880 bestseller Nana. A

Modernity Watch

The Chinese Advantage

The Chinese Advantage

May 03, 2012

Which nation will own the 21st century? The leading candidates are the USA and

Multiculturalism

The Basis of a Real Conversation

The Basis of a Real Conversation

April 26, 2012

Of all the comments I read during the brouhaha over my April 5th Taki’s Mag

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The Endless Pursuit of Happiness

The Endless Pursuit of Happiness

April 19, 2012

There is a story, very likely apocryphal, that shortly after Charles de Gaulle

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