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.
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Free to Be a CommunistOctober 25, 2012 I was reading one of the angrier conservative bloggers the other day when I |
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The One-Party StateOctober 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 IIOctober 11, 2012 As promised last week, here is Part II of random ruminations on my fifteen |
Review
Anniversary of a DefenestrationOctober 04, 2012 This coming weekend marks the six-month anniversary of my fifteen minutes of |
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A Day at the OperaSeptember 27, 2012 I had my weekend nicely planned. Saturday: small catch-up stuff, paperwork, and |
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Heavy PettingSeptember 20, 2012 In 1957 the Australian sci-fi writer Bertram Chandler—probably the only |
Culture Clash
Losing Our TurbulenceSeptember 13, 2012 The country of my birth no longer much resembles the country of my birth, |
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White People Are PussiesSeptember 06, 2012 On a call-in radio program recently, we had been airing my infamous assertion |
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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, & GodsAugust 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 PouvaitAugust 09, 2012 Back on July 19th I wrote about taking the family shotgun apart. Curious |
London 2012
Pathologies of Our Peculiar AgeAugust 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 BuffJuly 26, 2012 Growing up in England, one didn’t hear much about the American Civil War. |
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Things Fall ApartJuly 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 PilgrimsJuly 12, 2012 Back in 1982 a faction of Lebanese Arabs massacred Palestinian Arabs at two |
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Down and Out in LaosJuly 05, 2012 It’s a slow news week and I’m temporarily out of outrageous opinions, so here |
Alternative Right
Partying With the Right Side on the Left CoastJune 28, 2012 I am just recovering from a splendid weekend in Seattle, a conference organized |
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Places White People LikeJune 14, 2012 I hadn’t read The Smithsonian for years. Back in the 1970s I actually |
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Embracing UnemploymentJune 07, 2012 We had better start learning to embrace unemployment. There aren’t that many |
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Napoleon DynamiteMay 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 WhimperMay 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 ToMay 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 DayMay 10, 2012 I read a novel over the weekend. It was Émile Zola’s 1880 bestseller Nana. A |
Modernity Watch
The Chinese AdvantageMay 03, 2012 Which nation will own the 21st century? The leading candidates are the USA and |
Multiculturalism
The Basis of a Real ConversationApril 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 HappinessApril 19, 2012 There is a story, very likely apocryphal, that shortly after Charles de Gaulle |