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December 2024 Diary
• December 31, 2024
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The first big news story of the month was President Joe Biden's pardoning of his son for any crimes he may have committed by selling his Dad's name to ChiCom gang bosses and East Slavic corruptocrats. For students of Chinese philosophy a much-discussed passage from midway through the Analects of Confucius came to mind. In... Read More
November 2024 Diary
• December 2, 2024
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According to Philip Larkin: We know what he meant. Human beings were making the beast with two backs long before 1963, as Larkin — born in 1922, vigorously heterosexual, never married — surely knew, but the place of sex in our lives — in our society, in our imaginations — underwent some kind of radical... Read More
October 2024 Diary
• November 1, 2024
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October in the northern hemisphere is, let's face it, a melancholy month. Walking the dog through the quiet streets of our bosky suburb one chilly morning, a mild wind came up, filling the air with downwards-drifting dead leaves in slow showers. The pop-music standard Autumn Leaves of course surfaced in my head and got stuck... Read More
September 2024 Diary
• October 1, 2024
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Because I don't know the Bible very well I often get caught out by scriptural references. So it was the other day when I was browsing my September 2024 issue of The New Criterion. That magazine always includes some original poetry. The poet in this issue was George Bradley, whose most recent collection, Late Montale,... Read More
August Diary
• September 3, 2024
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I have thought, ever since reading his 1959 classic The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, that Erving Goffman's distinction between the "front" and the "back" is a good starting-point for a lot of sociological commentary. Here I was, for example, diarizing about a trip to Mexico that we enjoyed six years ago: The performing... Read More
July 2024 Diary
• August 1, 2024
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An oddity of this election season is that nobody — well, nobody in my admittedly partial reading and viewing — has mentioned the Presidential election of nineteen twenty-four, one hundred years ago. Garland S. Tucker III wrote a rather good book about that election. He pointed out how peculiar it looks in retrospect: both major-party... Read More
Thinking About Political Assassinations (Remember Percival V. Bellingham?)
• July 20, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Shall I always remember where I was and what I was doing when I got the news about the Trump assassination attempt last Saturday? Probably not; I can't remember my kids' names. For the record, though, I was at the desk in my study... Read More
Blowhard Gives Boring Speech, But Hard Not to Catch RNC Enthusiasm
• July 19, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Yes, the Republican Party's National Convention in Milwaukee, Monday through Thursday was quite a spectacle. To begin at the end, though, I have a confession to make. Checking in on X this morning, Friday morning, I saw a tweet from Rod Dreher, whom I... Read More
U.K. Not A Happy Country. But It Knows How to Hold Elections.
• July 5, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] On Thursday July 4, our mother nation, the U.K., had a general election for its main legislature, the House of Commons. If one political party wins a majority of seats in the Commons, the leader of that party gets summoned to Buckingham Palace for... Read More
JUNE DIARY: [7 ITEMS] Milestones, Muggeridge, MANIA, and Math
• July 1, 2024
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A hot, slow, still month, the only social event of any note a sad one (more later). I trimmed my hedges, mowed my lawn, walked my dog, paid my estimated taxes, showed up for my annual physical. Concerning that last, I went over all the numbers with our family physician. You know the numbers I... Read More
ON the DEBATE: The Next 18 Weeks Will be Better Than Show Business!
• June 28, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] The big news story of the week was of course the televised debate between President Biden and his almost certain challenger for the November election, former President Donald Trump. The debate was advertised to us well in advance as the Greatest Show on Earth.... Read More
Germany Seething As Government Fines Truthtellers, Hides Muslim Violence
• June 23, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] So after my last two foreign affairs items, I can hear you muttering. "For goodness' sake, Derb, Iceland, Hungary, … what's this thing you have for small, inconsequential countries? How about somewhere important?" OK, how about Germany? Most populous country in Europe, with the... Read More
Pirate Party Defeated In Iceland—Failed Asylum Seekers Must Go Elsewhere
• June 21, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] We don't get much news out of Iceland. It's another one of those un-newsworthy places, like Uruguay or New Zealand, slumbering in quiet, contented prosperity away from the noise and fuss that prevails elsewhere. When we do get news out of Iceland it's usually... Read More
"NOBODY IS ABOVE the LAW"? Yeah, Right—Except for Illegals, Boston Shoplifters, Burglars, Vice Presidential Influencer ...
• June 15, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] The Hunter Biden verdict—guilty of lying about his drug use on a federal firearms application—is a small propaganda triumph for the Ruling Class. "See," they're all jeering, "NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW!" Yeah, right. NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW … except for the untold... Read More
MAY DIARY [8 ITEMS]: 12 O'Clock High; Trangressing Woman; Gadget Enstupidation; Thanatophobia—My Existential Issue; ETC.
• June 2, 2024
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For V-E Day a friend sent me a link to the full-length YouTube showing of Twelve O'Clock High, a 1949 movie about World War 2. From the storyline at IMDb: I don't know why I got through those 75 years without ever seeing Twelve O'Clock High. If I mention it to friends of my own... Read More
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Trump’s Verdict, Clinton’s Narcissism, and the Ruling Class’s “Wound That Will Not Heal”
• May 31, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Earlier: Trump And VDARE.com: Victims Of Third-World Justice So a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on all thirty-four charges of having falsified business records in 2017 with the intent to cover up another crime. What was that other crime? I don't know. Does anybody?... Read More
"Migrants" Big Business As Biden Regime Imposes Them from Broadway NY to Armpit ME
• May 24, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Here’s the late Judy Garland with "Give my regards to Broadway …" Ah yes, Broadway; the Great White Way, the Street of Dreams. Does any thoroughfare in the United States have such a romantic, evocative name? And on West 50th Street, halfway between Broadway... Read More
The Great Ann Corcoran vs. the Open Borders Wolf Pack
• May 19, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] When the United States has been restored as a proper nation with demographic stability, well-managed borders, and a proper concern for the continuity of our national culture, a monument should be erected in tribute to all those who helped make it happen. I doubt... Read More
Bomb Ivy League to Rubble, Sow Ground with Salt! Oh, and Stop Women Voting
• May 18, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Pretty much all the news that comes out of our colleges and universities nowadays is unsightly. A good proportion of it is disgusting. Back in January, following the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay, I quoted Amy Wax, speaking about the administration at her... Read More
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Swept Away By Eva Vlaardingerbroek—and Samuel Huntington
• May 12, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] My acquaintance with CPAC [Conservative Political Action Conference] has been minimal. I attended the February 2012 CPAC in Washington, D.C. and gave a speech there. You can find the speech archived for posterity here: Will Our Multicultural Elites Ever Become Race Realists? That one... Read More
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Opposes House Anti-Semitism Bill—Asks "What About Anti-Gentilism?"
• May 4, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act, giving the federal Department of Education the power to cut off funding to schools and colleges that tolerate “Antisemitism”—as defined in the Act. From the account given in The Washington Post, it... Read More
APRIL DIARY: [11 ITEMS!] Eclipse In Cleveland, Eclipse On Mars?; Middle East Disavowal; VDARE Conference; the Young Ones; ...
• May 1, 2024
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I don’t know about April being the cruelest month, but for me April 2024 has the busiest month for a long time. April was bracketed, beginning and end, by two long (500 miles, 320 miles) road trips. In between were two dinner clubs in Manhattan, at one of which I gave a speech, and a... Read More
Decline of American Science—PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW Promotes "Antiracist Psychology"
• April 5, 2024
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Yet another academic outrage, although this one concerning not the classroom but published science journals. We science geeks have long since got used to the fact that Scientific American magazine, which we once revered, now has an editorial board composed entirely of hysterical 13-year-old girls. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Blogger Turfed Out—Defenestrations Will Continue Until Morale Improves... Read More
MARCH DIARY [11 ITEMS!] Hanging On the Cross, Our One-Party State, and Have I Been Canceled?, Etc.
• April 1, 2024
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Glum news this week for VDARE.com friends and contributors. It looks as though we, financed as we are solely by the generosity of donors, shall have to surrender to the mighty armies of lawyers and judges fielded by New York State Attorney General Letitia James, financed by bottomless funds of public money. That follows news... Read More
NYAG Letitia James vs. Donald Trump—Not Just Politicized Justice, But Peculation?
• March 23, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] See also: Manafort, Marlborough, And Robert E. Lee: Criminalizing Policy/ Personnel, Differences— U.S. Politics Regressing To The Primitive Settling in the U.S.A. in my forties, I brought with me from the Mother Country some preconceptions. Foremost was the U.S.A. I'd seen from a distance... Read More
Bloodbaths, “Wet Work” and the Non-Zero Chance That Donald Trump Will be Assassinated (By A Drone?)
• March 22, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Colorful rhetoric was in the news this week, the color being red. Campaigning in Ohio for a Republican Senate candidate in last Tuesday's primary, Donald J. Trump had words to say about automobiles being imported from China. The actual words: The Regime Media promptly... Read More
On St Patrick’s Day—Are the Irish Rebelling Again?
• March 16, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Earlier: St. Patrick's Day Is NOT Immigration Day—Irish-Americans Are White, And Being Replaced Like The Rest Of Us Tomorrow, Sunday March 17th, we mark St. Patrick's Day. I'm sure you all know the story of St. Patrick, but I'll offer a very brief reminder.... Read More
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Canada, Britain, Slipping Into Soft Totalitarianism
• March 10, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] See earlier: Majority Deport: Canada's Pre-Crime Hate Speech Law and Sam Melia: UK Man Convicted Of Hate Speech For Saying ”It's OK To Be White” And "Reject White Guilt,” Etc. Two items here on the rapid decline of free speech in parts of the... Read More
America’s Law Problem—Does It Mean A Wave of Squatters?
• March 1, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Mr. Bumble, the beadle in Dickens’ Oliver Twist, was present when his wife sold stolen goods. He therefore shared responsibility for that offense, he was told, because “the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction.“ Mr. Bumble, a man of spirit, replied... Read More
FEBRUARY DIARY [9 ITEMS!]: Immigration Patriot Triumphalism? Mass Deportations? Uhtceare? ETC. ETC!!!
• February 29, 2024
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I think I'm detecting some faint stirrings of triumphalism among my fellow immigration restrictionists. My boss Peter Brimelow is smiling over at X about an exit poll from the February 24th South Carolina primary. Immigration led as "Most important issue" with 41 percent of those polled. Peter: "VDARE has waited a long time for this."... Read More
Letitia James's Totalitarian Justice In New York
• February 27, 2024
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The biggest news story of the last few days has been the ruling by a New York Court that Donald Trump had, over several years, overvalued some of his properties in filings with banks and insurance companies. The prosecutors argued that those overvaluations got the Trump Organization better terms than it would otherwise have got... Read More
White Men Need Not Apply—In New York State, Hollywood, or Google Gemini
• February 24, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] I hope readers will forgive me for yet another long grumble about New York State, where I live. I believe there are some general deductions to be made—issues bigger than just the Empire State. I opened my January Diary with the plain declaration that... Read More
Biden, Adams vs. Noboa, Bukele. Which Way America?
• February 17, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] I started out my January Diary grumbling about New York, the state of which I am a tax-paying resident. Quote from me: "I love my country but I don't much like my state." Well, as bad as New York State may be, New York... Read More
Just WHY Did the US Deep State Declare War On Russia?
• February 10, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Yesterday, I mentioned David Goldman's scorn in his recent Asia Times piece (Mike Pompeo’s four China mistakes in one sentence, January 31, 2024) for what I called "our foolish and feckless China policy." I was still chuckling over Goldman’s critique when I settled down... Read More
On Chinese New Year’s Eve, Why Is U.S. China Policy So Foolish and Feckless?
• February 9, 2024
• 1,600 Words • 59 Comments • Reply
[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] As I write this, I hear food preparation noises—the clatter of pots and pans, perhaps. That's because this evening, February 9th, is Chinese New Year's Eve (the Language Police now demand we call it Lunar New Year) so there is some serious food prep... Read More
The Coming Null-T Annulment?
• February 3, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Back at the beginning of the Biden administration—the very beginning: I'm looking at my podcast dated January 22, 2021, two days after the inauguration —I tried to float a meme. That's a thing I have tried many times to do, with no success; but... Read More
Communist Coup Official!—Ivy League Elite Overwhelmingly Thinks Americans Have Too Much Freedom
• February 2, 2024
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Earlier (by Sam Francis, 2002): Poll Exposes Elite-Public Clash On Immigration [Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] I had never heard of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity until this week, when a reference to them showed up on Twitter. Going to their website I see that they are a lobby... Read More
JANUARY DIARY [8 ITEMS!] Squatter Story from Awful New York State; Epileptic Dwarf Pilots?; Saluting All Over; Lessons In ...
• February 1, 2024
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I love my country but I don’t much like my state. If I could start over, New York would, from what I know of the other forty-nine, rank very low in my preferences for a state to live in—down in the mid-forties, I’m pretty sure. A criminal-coddling, corrupt Governor competing with Gavin Newsom in clueless... Read More
How MANY Indian Immigrants Do We Want? or ARE WE NOT ALLOWED to ASK?
• January 27, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Recently, I applauded Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s challenge to the Biden Regime’s treasonous determination to open the border to illegals (which continues). But I noticed the paradox that Abbott was doing this from India where he travelling to express support for India legal immigration... Read More
Abbott Opposes ILLEGALS At Texas Border —But Recruits LEGAL Immigrants In India
• January 26, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has been in the headlines this week. Even before those headlines, Abbott has become something of a hero to many (not all) immigration patriots this past three years. Under his Operation Lone Star, Texas state troopers have been arresting... Read More
Is the Blinken/ Mayorkas Gang of Two Plotting AMNESTY with AMLO? Why Do We Let Them?
• January 19, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] One heartening result from the Iowa caucuses is the one noted at length by our own correspondent Washington Watcher II on Tuesday: the salience of the immigration issue as a top concern among Iowa caucus goers, and among Republican voters in general, nationwide. The... Read More
Amy Wax, A Heroine for Our Time, vs. the "Midwit Gynocrats"
• January 12, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] I'm not sure what the etiquette is for a podcaster borrowing clips from another podcaster, but here's where I shall find out. The other podcaster I'm going to plagiarize here is Richard Hanania, whose book The Origins of Woke came out last year to... Read More
There IS (Partial and Incremental) Hope On Immigration!
• January 5, 2024
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Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] It’s my New Year podcast! As is customary, I'll take a quick glance back, and then one forward. I shall strive to be a little more upbeat than Robert Burns addressing his mouse. To a Mouse, by Robert Burns, 1759-1796 For immigration patriots the... Read More
DECEMBER DIARY: [7 ITEMS!] Eartha Kitt, Cold War Poetry, Espionage Failures, and Gadgets Galore, ETC.
• January 1, 2024
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People grumble about the corny old Christmas music played in department stores and other public places at this time of year. Not me: I love it. A lot of the voices I’m hearing are those that made an impression on me back in my childhood and early teen years, when I was most impressionable. Eartha... Read More
Home for Christmas!—and Podcasting, Against Rosie’s Advice
• December 22, 2023
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Earlier: Derb’s Disastrous December—A Sick Note For The Missing Podcast and Derb’s Disastrous December Continues [Adapted From Radio Derb, which will be posted later tonight] And Radio Derb is on the air! [And on pixel here!]. Greetings, listeners, from your domestically genial ho-ho-host John Derbyshire this Friday evening, December 22nd 2023. This week's podcast is... Read More
Give 'Em An Inch, They Take A (Harvard) Yard
• December 15, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Can I call 'em, or what? Yes, folks: You heard it here first. On November 10th, seven weeks ago, I wrote: Reading the news about our universities taking the side of Hamas after October 7th, I was a bit surprised to see that the... Read More
Another Cup of Cruelty In the Shameful Chauvin Story
• December 2, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Earlier, May 30, 2020: Even Right Abandoning Accused Minneapolis Cop—But They Shouldn't and March 31, 2021: Ann Coulter: Derek Chauvin, Human Sacrifice Last week, I mentioned in passing the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of an appeal by Derek Chauvin, the cop who was restraining... Read More
NOVEMBER DIARY [11 ITEMS]: Hyperinflation Centenary; Elon's Biography; Derb On AI; and Goodnight, Henry Kissinger; ETC.!!
• December 1, 2023
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This month, November 2023, marks [sic] a hundred years since the peak of the hyperinflation that afflicted Germany after World War One. In my English adolescence I knew an elderly couple of Silesian Jews, the ”Kellermans,” who had themselves been adolescents in Germany when hyperinflation hit. They had lurid tales about it: kitchen cabinets stuffed... Read More
Flickers of Sanity Against the Great Replacement In Europe—Especially In Ireland
• November 24, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Earlier: For Immigration Patriot Nationalist Parties, The Fences Are Coming Down All Over Europe There are flickers of sanity against the Great Replacement over in Europe—especially in Ireland, a proud member of the European Union and a popular destination for illegal aliens from Africa... Read More
Lessons from Britain’s National Extinction—Its Deep State Is As Bad As Ours
• November 18, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] I'm going to speak at length here about recent lessons from Britain, not because of lingering affection for the land of my birth, nor because I think it's of world-shaking importance in itself, but because of the parallel tracks that recent British and American... Read More
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John Derbyshire writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him. He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. His most recent book, published by VDARE.com com is FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle).His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.