John Derbyshire

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

Quarterly Potpourri

Advice to investors. In last week's column "€œDon"€™t Sup With a FUP"€ I offered a ...
Donald Trump

RADIO DERB

A Trump Candidacy

Professional politicians are, according to me, such loathsome, repulsive critters that non-politicians are always appealing by comparison.

Derbtown

Doom Fiction

In the realm of science fiction, few things are as much fun to read about as the near exti...

Derbtown

Nothing Is Real

T.S. Eliot's observation that "€œhuman kind cannot bear very much reality"€ is surely...

Derbtown

Two Great Wars

Every nation has, in its collective psyche, a special place for its bloodiest war: a place...
Amphitheater of Athens, Greece

RADIO DERB

Nothing to Declare

It got terrific reviews, even the Guardian gave it a good review. It didn’t sell at all, I don’t know why.

Bill Nye

Derbtown

Nye Lied, I Sighed

Bill Nye the Science Guy gave a commencement speech at Rutgers on Sunday. Reading the spee...

RADIO DERB

Mug Us Again!

From 2001 to 2013 more than 1.6 million people from predominantly Muslim countries were issued green cards for permanent settlement in the U.S.A.

RADIO DERB

All Mx-ed Up

Normal people feel there’s something a bit bizarre, and slightly comical, about transsexuals, and no amount of propaganda is going to expunge that.

RADIO DERB

Lather, Rinse, Repeat

The media lefties, dodging the falling masonry, make their escape back to their cozy doorman buildings and gated suburbs. Everything goes quiet for a few weeks. Then …

Thomas Cromwell

Derbtown

Serving the Tiger

Having already confessed to being a reader of middlebrow fiction, I get occasional emails ...

RADIO DERB

Cold Numbers

Most people, including most of the people paid to write public commentary, are innumerate; and that makes much of what they say worthless.

Derbtown

Camp of the Stupids

The mass drowning of eight or nine hundred"€”nobody knows precisely"€”illegal immigran...

Derbtown

Cops and Robbers

What was your first thought on seeing that video clip of the white cop shooting the fleein...
United Nations Complex, New York

RADIO DERB

Is Nationalism a Dirty Word?

Nationalists want all the diverse peoples of the world to be secure in their own cultures and traditions, each in a sovereign nation of its own.


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