Here is a thing that happened in the Civil War. If you know your Civil War minutiae, it"ll be familiar to you, in which case I beg your pardon. I can"t resist a good ...
The disappearing middle. A study out of Oxford University, written up on Slate.com, says that 47 percent of US jobs are “at risk” of being automated in the next 20 ...
Talk about biting off more than you can chew! Since taking up the Civil War (War Between the States, War of Northern Aggression, whatever) as a part-time study, I’ve been ...
It’s coming up to new laptop time, so I headed down to Best Buy. All they had were Windows 8 machines. The assistant gave me a tour of this new operating system. It was ...
From Daily Mail Online, September 8th: ...director Steve McQueen…is dividing viewers with a new film about the horrors of slavery….The movie, 12 Years a Slave, caused ...
Here is David Gelernter’s classic take on Virginia Military Institute being forced by the US Supreme Court in 1996 to admit women: The elite hated VMI, and no doubt VMI ...
This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. I have no recollection of the 1963 event myself, but I have good ...
In last week’s Radio Derb I uttered some unkind words about Oprah Winfrey. The week before that, in a VDARE column, I had been uncharitable about the movie Ms. Winfrey has ...
Human nature is in the news: intelligence and prejudice. First, disgraced conservative analyst Jason Richwine published a piece on Politico.com under the rather plaintive title ...
So where are we with this democracy business? Last time I brought it up I left you with Robert A. Heinlein's time traveler: "How were things when you left? Especially, how is ...
Last Friday I had an idle chat with a middle-aged Chinese lady (not Mrs. Derbyshire). I mentioned that the following day, July 20th, would be the 40th anniversary of the death of ...
Well, thank goodness that's over. Some themes from the political and social commentary are still hanging in the air, though, like wisps of smoke after a brushfire. I"ll note a ...
Oops, I did it again. I’m so out of touch with the zeitgeist, I’m always honestly surprised when something I write stirs people up. “You’ve done it ...
There’s been more than the usual amount. Some reflections. Zimmerman. “It’s hard to find a sympathetic character in the entire saga,” opined our editors ...
Back in January I drew some parallels between the Civil War whose 150th anniversary is upon us and the lesser conflicts that disturb our domestic peace nowadays. I quoted Senator ...
I was slow on the uptake in understanding Chinese communism's awfulness. I"d been a lefty in my student days without knowing anything much about China. Toward the end of those ...
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