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.
Derbtown
The Endless Pursuit of HappinessApril 19, 2012 There is a story, very likely apocryphal, that shortly after Charles de Gaulle |
Derbtown
Talking BackApril 12, 2012 Goodness, what a fuss! The topic here is of course my Taki’s Mag column of |
Racial Politics
The Talk: Nonblack VersionApril 05, 2012 There is much talk about “the talk.” “Sean O’Reilly was 16 when his |
Takimag Classic
Multiculturalism: When Will the Sleeper Wake?March 29, 2012 London Mayor Boris Johnson spoke the other day about the riots that devastated |
Healthcare
My Mother the NurseMarch 22, 2012 Obamacare, Romneycare, Ryancare…are you up to speed on this stuff? Don’t look |
Cultural Caviar
When Sci-Fi Dared to DreamMarch 15, 2012 Here’s a cultural artifact of the minor sort: Issue Number 82 (July 1957) of |
Vile Bodies
Life at Half-SpeedMarch 08, 2012 I’ll admit it: I was apprehensive about the chemo. Some decades ago a female |
Media
Firing My Own Bu-cannonMarch 01, 2012 Having recently enthused about Pat Buchanan’s latest book and then about the |
Conspiracy
Something’s Rotten in the RepublicFebruary 23, 2012 If you hang out at dissident-right websites you surely know the Berthold Brecht |
The Stupid Party
Facing Down the ThugsFebruary 16, 2012 Call me naïve, but the left’s coarse brutishness still shocks me. The only |
Lit Crit
Pat Buchanan: The Noble RelicFebruary 09, 2012 Has Pat Buchanan been fired from MSNBC, or hasn’t he? He hasn’t been seen on |
Tech Overload
Over the Hill at 35February 02, 2012 A lady recently asked Barack Obama why the government is issuing and extending |
Pathetic Politicians
They Don’t Have a ClueJanuary 26, 2012 Watching President Obama deliver his State of the Union Address, I got to |
Immigration
The Right Not to Commit SuicideJanuary 19, 2012 The other evening one of my dinner clubs had a meeting. I’m getting addicted to |
Idiocracy
Killing the West With KindnessJanuary 12, 2012 A couple of hard-luck stories: First story: Randy Johnson of Marion, Indiana |
PC World
Revulsion TransferenceJanuary 05, 2012 I was reading Eric Dondero’s revelations about the time he spent working as |
Notes From the Edge
The Year in the Rear-ViewDecember 29, 2011 A week is proverbially a long time in politics. A year is 52.14 times longer |
Semantics
Ron Paul Drops the H-BombDecember 22, 2011 My dream of a Bachmann-Paul Republican ticket in 2012 is fading fast. Vain are |
Race
Preserving the Arctic AllianceDecember 15, 2011 A couple of years ago I floated the notion of an Arctic Alliance wherein people |
World
Down, But Still RussianDecember 08, 2011 Walking around central Moscow, the thing you notice is the Russians—I mean, |
Life at the BottomDecember 01, 2011 I’ve read few things more depressing than this GQ piece about the gang rape |
Zeitgeist
Silver LiningsNovember 24, 2011 I am a pessimist, for reasons I have expatiated upon at book length. In that |
Travel
Warming Up to the Sunshine StateNovember 17, 2011 It really is possible to change your attitudes, even in…well, let’s say |
Race
A Black Gift for Politics?November 10, 2011 In Seth Forman’s book American Obsession: Race and Conflict in the Age of |
Heart of Darkness
The Rude MultitudeOctober 27, 2011 Macbeth knew what would be coming to him once his domestic enemies had the |
Lit Crit
The Melancholy Roar of RetreatOctober 20, 2011 One of the schoolmasters in charge of my Anglican religious instruction used to |