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
Ridding Myself of the DayI read a novel over the weekend. It was Émile Zola’s 1880 bestseller Nana. A few days |
Modernity Watch
The Chinese AdvantageWhich nation will own the 21st century? The leading candidates are the USA and China. |
Multiculturalism
The Basis of a Real ConversationOf all the comments I read during the brouhaha over my April 5th Taki’s Mag column, |
Derbtown
The Endless Pursuit of HappinessThere is a story, very likely apocryphal, that shortly after Charles de Gaulle resigned |
Derbtown
Talking BackGoodness, what a fuss! The topic here is of course my Taki’s Mag column of last week, |
Racial Politics
The Talk: Nonblack VersionThere is much talk about “the talk.” “Sean O’Reilly was 16 when his mother gave |
Takimag Classic
Multiculturalism: When Will the Sleeper Wake?London Mayor Boris Johnson spoke the other day about the riots that devastated London |
Healthcare
My Mother the NurseObamacare, Romneycare, Ryancare…are you up to speed on this stuff? Don’t look at me. |
Cultural Caviar
When Sci-Fi Dared to DreamHere’s a cultural artifact of the minor sort: Issue Number 82 (July 1957) of Authentic |
Vile Bodies
Life at Half-SpeedI’ll admit it: I was apprehensive about the chemo. Some decades ago a female relative |
Media
Firing My Own Bu-cannonHaving recently enthused about Pat Buchanan’s latest book and then about the man |
Conspiracy
Something’s Rotten in the RepublicIf you hang out at dissident-right websites you surely know the Berthold Brecht quote: |
The Stupid Party
Facing Down the ThugsCall me naïve, but the left’s coarse brutishness still shocks me. The only thing |
Lit Crit
Pat Buchanan: The Noble RelicHas Pat Buchanan been fired from MSNBC, or hasn’t he? He hasn’t been seen on the |
Tech Overload
Over the Hill at 35A lady recently asked Barack Obama why the government is issuing and extending H-1B |
Pathetic Politicians
They Don’t Have a ClueWatching President Obama deliver his State of the Union Address, I got to thinking of |
Immigration
The Right Not to Commit SuicideThe other evening one of my dinner clubs had a meeting. I’m getting addicted to these |
Idiocracy
Killing the West With KindnessA couple of hard-luck stories: First story: Randy Johnson of Marion, Indiana was laid |
PC World
Revulsion TransferenceI was reading Eric Dondero’s revelations about the time he spent working as personal |
Notes From the Edge
The Year in the Rear-ViewA week is proverbially a long time in politics. A year is 52.14 times longer than that. |
Semantics
Ron Paul Drops the H-BombMy dream of a Bachmann-Paul Republican ticket in 2012 is fading fast. Vain are the |
Race
Preserving the Arctic AllianceA couple of years ago I floated the notion of an Arctic Alliance wherein people of |
World
Down, But Still RussianWalking around central Moscow, the thing you notice is the Russians—I mean, the |
Life at the BottomI’ve read few things more depressing than this GQ piece about the gang rape of an |
Zeitgeist
Silver LiningsI am a pessimist, for reasons I have expatiated upon at book length. In that book’s |
Travel
Warming Up to the Sunshine StateIt really is possible to change your attitudes, even in…well, let’s say late middle |
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