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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
Decline of American Science—PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW Promotes "Antiracist Psychology"
• April 5, 2024
• 700 Words • 37 Comments • Reply
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
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
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
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
So Now "Picnic" and “Good Morning” Are Racist?
• November 3, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] In common with most sensible people, I believe that public funding for higher education in the United States, including student-loan support, should be strictly limited to mathematics and the real sciences—physics, chemistry, biology, and a few borderline areas like linguistics. If you want to... Read More
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"Nobody Wants An 0.76 Percent Black Harvard. the Oceans Would Boil, the Earth Would Crash Into the Sun."
• June 30, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] A few days ago, I had the delightful and instructive experience of sitting down to dinner with Charles Murray, whose latest book, Facing Reality came out just two years ago. The "reality" in the title is reality about race differences, most particularly differences in... Read More
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WAITING for SCOTUS: It’s Obvious the Ivies Discriminate Against Asians. Do They Also Discriminate In Favor of Jews?
• June 19, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Sometime very soon—perhaps as you are hearing or reading this—the U.S. Supreme Court will, in the last month of its judicial term, bring forth a ruling on the constitutionality of Affirmative Action in college admissions. This ruling will be the final act in the... Read More
NOVEMBER DIARY [10 ITEMS]: Dismantling Meritocracy; Nurturism Is Hate; the Equity Chimera; WW1 Reflections; ETC. ETC.
• December 1, 2022
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I think it was Steve Sailer who first observed that the now-ubiquitous initialism DEI, for "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion," should more properly be written DIE, as in: "DIE, WHITEY!" Nowhere is that more apt than in the field of medical education, as we were reminded early in November when the Association of American Medical Colleges... Read More
The Affirmative Action Circle Simply Can’t be Squared. Time to Try Freedom of Association?
• November 5, 2022
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Earlier, by Peter Brimelow (Forbes, 1993): When Quotas Replace Merit, Everybody Suffers [Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Monday this week the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases concerning Affirmative Action in college admissions. The plaintiff in the case is a nonprofit called Students For Fair Admissions,... Read More
Red vs. Expert? Three and A Half Case Studies from Soviet America
• May 20, 2022
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] See also: VDARE.com’s Brimelow: “This Is A Communist Coup. But White America Is On The Move” Communism has always suffered from tensions caused by the need for both political rectitude and expertise in fields of practical knowledge. Fields like medicine, for example. Lenin nursed... Read More
Putin Is Right!—About Wokeness
• January 21, 2022
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Earlier, by Steve Sailer: What If Wokeness Is A Russian Conspiracy To Ruin America? I'm starting to be irritated by the word "Wokeness," I'm not sure why. When "Woke" and "Wokeness" first came up, I thought they were sort of cute. Since the 1980s,... Read More
Race and Sex—Across the Anglosphere, Universities Can’t Handle Them
• October 15, 2021
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] The horrors of Wokeness in higher education have been a staple of conservative commentary for decades—at least since the publication of Roger Kimball's book Tenured Radicals back in 1990. So the recent flap at Yale Law School did not cause me to swoon in... Read More
Those Georgetown Law School Lynchings—Ruling Class Revolt Against Reality Going Off the Chart
• March 20, 2021
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Earlier: Georgetown Law Prof Says She Feels Angst Over Low Performance Of Her Black Students, Gets Fired and Second Georgetown Law Prof Is Out. His Crime? Saying "Mmmhhhhhh" Eleven years ago I spoke at a conference organized by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. I gave them a... Read More
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Race Denial Fanatics vs. Law Enforcement, Academic Reality
• December 12, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] The core ideology of our Ruling Class, which citizens contradict at peril of losing their livelihood, is Race Denialism. Statistical differences in outcome by race cannot possibly be biological in origin. The only reasons for those differences you may discuss in public are social:... Read More
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Georgia Book Burning Shows White Students Not All PC-Whipped After All!
• October 18, 2019
• 900 Words • 98 Comments • Reply
In my podcast this week, I’ve got comments on various kinds of lunacy going on (appointing illegal aliens to state policy-making boards in Gavin Newsom’s California, closing, and presumably emptying onto the streets, a prison in De Blasio’s New York) and general sense that the world is going nuts. But, trying to look on the... Read More
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“Something Happened In 2013-2014”—Haidt and Codevilla On the Elite Drive for Civil War
• August 30, 2019
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Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively on VDARE.com This comes to you from beneath the sign of Saturn. I am glum. It's nothing personal, thank God; I'm glum about the state of my country. Coming from the author of a book titled We Are Doomed, I guess that's not an astonishing thing to... Read More
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Amy Wax, “National Conservatism,” and the Futility of Nuance—Why Not An Immigration Moratorium?
• July 26, 2019
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Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively on VDARE.com Amy Wax, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, in trouble again—in a way that points to the fundamental contradictions of Yoram Hazony’s recent National Conservatism conference a.k.a. The Gatekeeper’s Ball. In March last year, Prof. Wax did a Bloggingheads interviews with black Economics... Read More
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Trump Derangement Syndrome Blocks Action On Immigration, Higher Ed Crises (They're Related)
• May 6, 2019
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So I sit down after dinner to watch some political shows on TV. What are they talking about? The Mueller Report. Still talking about it, still getting heated about it. I get to thinking about the opportunity cost of all the anti-Trump passion that is still, after more than two years, roiling our national legislature.... Read More
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Jim Goad's New Book: A Banquet of Anti-Anti-Whiteness!
• April 25, 2019
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See, earlier: Vance’s HILLBILLY ELEGY: A Dissent From Personal Experience, by Jim Goad When, in the Winter 1967 issue of Partisan Review, Susan Sontag told us that "The white race is the cancer of human history," she had lit such a candle as, it seems 52 years later, will never be put out. Anti-whiteness is... Read More
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MORE Race Denialism the Poor Old NYT? They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
• February 25, 2019
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Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, availableexclusively on VDARE.com Sub-Saharan Africans, and their descendants in the New World, are a local variety of our species homo sapiens. That they present their own particular statistical profile on heritable characteristics—which includes traits of behavior, intelligence, and personality—is deeply unsurprising. So do dog breeds; and what artificial selection... Read More
Then They Came for Amy Wax (Again). America’s Cultural Revolution Is Speeding Up.
• March 27, 2018
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Amy Wax, a tenured Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania is now being subjected to a SECOND Two Minutes Hate by our Emerging Totalitarian Left. I should say—having some slight acquaintance with the lady—that Professor Wax is a formidable person to take on in combat, not only intellectually but also in personality. I... Read More
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Campus Craziness Will Awaken Trump’s Silent Majority Like the ’68 Riots Did Nixon’s
• March 9, 2018
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In open, civilized societies there is a tolerance for some level of disorder, as being the price citizens collectively pay for their liberties. But the key words in what I just said: “some level.” Today, in the year 2018, we are fifty years on from 1968, when public tolerance of disorder was tested to breaking... Read More
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Time to Stop Importing an Immigrant Overclass
• December 10, 2017
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Last week, I ventured some remarks about the Justice Department case against Harvard University for discriminating against Asian Americans. This brought in a surprising number of emails. I’ll take just two main points: First main point raised by readers: Import an overclass? We already did that! Listeners who made this point were referring of course... Read More
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Of Course Harvard Discriminates Against Asians
But Maybe That’s Good For Americans?
• December 5, 2017
• 1,300 Words • 833 Comments • Reply
There hasn’t been a whole lot of news about the Department of Justice investigation of Harvard University since I last mentioned the issue back in August. To refresh your memory: the DOJ was responding to a complaint from a coalition of Asian-American groups that their people, Asian-Americans, are discriminated against by Harvard admissions officers. Back... Read More
Berry Library at Dartmouth: not a \"safe space\" for white students, assaulted by \"Black Lives Matter\" demonstrators in 2015.
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The Extraordinary Case of Macklin Fleming and Affirmative Action
• October 30, 2017
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I recently got to meet social psychologist Lee Jussim [Email him] of Rutgers University. Back in 2001 I had reviewed a book Dr. Jussim had written in collaboration with two other scholars, book title Stereotype Accuracy: Toward Appreciating Group Differences. My review was titled “Stereotypes Aren’t So Bad,” which is more or less the message... Read More
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Derb Williams College Talk Cancelled After Violence Threats –President Falk Caved!
• August 10, 2017
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Today’s Wall Street Journal carries an op-ed by Zachary Wood (above) the Williams College student who invited me to speak to his “Uncomfortable Learning” group last February. The invitation was rescinded by the college president, Adam Falk “in the best interests of students and our community.” You can read Wood’s op-ed at the Journal website... Read More
CultMarx Witch-Hunters Go for Ray Wolters
• April 18, 2017
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Some of the most fun I’ve had as a writer was compiling the education chapter (Chapter Six) of We Are Doomed. For the connoisseur of human folly, education is a banquet. I wrote: Sane books about education do occasionally get published, though. Two years ago almost to the day, I reviewed one such here at... Read More
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Academic Nationalism for Black Americans
• April 5, 2017
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On Radio Derb recently I have been promoting a theme of “academic nationalism.” Higher education, I have argued, is a precious resource; and our own citizens should have first call on it. As I observed in the February 17th podcast: I enlarged on this theme March 17th, commenting on an article in The Economist’s bimonthly... Read More
Berry Library at Dartmouth: not a \"safe space\" for white students, assaulted by \"Black Lives Matter\" demonstrators in November. Credit: VDare.com.
Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard: Black Privilege (And Leftist Loony) Watch In Academe
• June 4, 2016
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Living as a white guy in America after having grown up elsewhere, I must say, I don’t see much ill-will towards blacks among my fellow whites. There are traces of it, I know; I read the comment threads. The vast majority of white Americans, however, wish no harm to blacks, nor any restriction of their... Read More
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Fear and Loathing At Williams College (But Mostly Fear)
• March 7, 2016
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There have been some later developments in the storm-in-an-academic-teacup over Williams College President Adam Falk [Email him] canceling a talk I was invited to give to the “Uncomfortable Learning” student group. The National Association of Scholars (of which I am a member) has been on the case. NAS is, to quote their mission statement, “a... Read More
“Troubled” N. Dakota State President Bresciani Declares Year Zero On American History
• February 29, 2016
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One of the great weasel words of our time is the word “troubling.” When a Social Justice Warrior tells you that such-and-such a thing is “troubling,” you’re meant to imagine him sitting there with furrowed brow, agonizing over the possibility that whatever it is might hurt the feelings of someone, somewhere. Given that hurt feelings... Read More
The Proper Study
I am ill-read.
• November 28, 2011
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"Should I read Thomas Mann?" Miss Straggler wanted to know. She has enrolled in some sort of freshman Western Lit. course at college, and keeps coming up with these questions. What to say? I have never, to my knowledge, read a single word Thomas Mann ever wrote, though I did sit through that sappy Dirk... Read More
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About John Derbyshire

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.