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The World of Null-T—Next Time, We Need A Cadre Who Know Their Way Around
• January 22, 2021
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Earlier, by Peter Brimelow: A Long Farewell To Donald Trump, Immigration Patriot. And Thanks. Back in the Golden Age of Science Fiction seventy-something years ago there was a novel everyone read, title The World of Null-A. It was about a future planet Earth that... Read More
Crisis #1 for Biden—Double Jeopardy System for Badwhites Will Get Officer Derek Chauvin. But First There May be Blood
• January 16, 2021
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] See, earlier, May 30, 2020: Even Right Abandoning Accused Minneapolis Cop—But They Shouldn't The incoming new administration will, with high probability, face three major crises in the next year or so. China will probably invade Taiwan. The stock market bubble will burst and the... Read More
"Part of Me Was Cheering Them On"—the Case for "Turbulence"
• January 8, 2021
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] I'm going to open with a confession here: watching those protestors rampaging through the halls of Congress on Wednesday afternoon, there was a part of me that was cheering them on. I hasten to add that it was only a part. My very strong... Read More
How Did America Become A Lawless Nation? "Gradually, Then Suddenly"
• January 2, 2021
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Yet more evidence, if more were needed, that we live in an increasingly lawless society showed up in New York City news outlets last week. Here's the story. December 24th last year … sorry: 2019, December 14th 2019, in the Bronx, sixty-year-old Juan Fresnada was out walking with a friend when a group of teenagers... Read More
DECEMBER DIARY [10 ITEMS]: Cruz Kills Hong Kong Influx Bill; Picking Chinese Nits with AMREN's Jared Taylor; James Flynn RIP; Philocaption
• January 1, 2021
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Footnote to that: I've known that quote for as long as I can remember, but without recalling why I know it. I've never read William Cobbett, so it must have been somewhere else I saw it. The mystery was solved as an indirect result of my posting, in last month's diary, a few words of... Read More
"Systemic Racism," the Patriarchy, and Rushton's Rule of Three.
• December 26, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Earlier by Steve Sailer: Biden Vows To Rip Out Roots Of Systemic Racism, i.e. Seize The Equity In Your Home You have surely heard the phrase "Systemic Racism" recently. What is it, though? A friend has directed my attention to a speech by Derrick... Read More
Jodie Turner-Smith As Anne Boleyn—Worst Casting Decision of 2020?
• December 18, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] See, earlier: NO, William The Conqueror Did NOT Have A Black Advisor. SJWs Are Just Rewriting English History (Sound Familiar?) A British TV channel is producing a costume drama about Anne Boleyn, who was the second wife of King Henry VIII of England back... 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
U.S Senate (INCLUDING Republican Senators) to U.S. Citizen Tech Workers—Drop Dead!
• December 5, 2020
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Earlier: Turkeys Vote For Christmas—GOP Votes To Import Leftist Indian Overclass (And Also Depress Tech Wages) Outrage of the week was surely Utah Senator Mike Lee getting his S.386 bill through the U.S. Senate. S.386 means a massive loosening of the rules for foreign workers to take up white-collar jobs in the U.S.A. Washington Watcher... Read More
NOVEMBER DIARY (13 ITEMS): Our Third World Election. Suzie Wong, Kyle Smith, Bruce Lee, and Indira Gandhi, Etc.
• December 1, 2020
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The election? I called it—a year and a half ago. Better yet, although it gives me no pleasure to report the fact: I called it for the right reasons. The quality of the opposition. This wasn't as big a factor as I predicted. Joe Biden was barely a candidate at all; he just stayed in... Read More
If Trump Has Lost—A “Biden Rush” for the U.S. Border?
• November 14, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] The fog of battle surrounding the November 3rd election has cleared somewhat, but there are still uncertainties about the consequences. Plainly there was much more than the usual amount of skullduggery in the registering and counting of votes, and it all seems to have... Read More
October Diary: Gypsy Quotations, Paleolithic Pleasure, Escape from Lockdown, and the White Tiger, Etc
• November 2, 2020
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"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." So said Ralph Waldo Emerson in his Phi Beta Kappa address, July 18th 1876, according to my 1955 Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2nd edition). I'm a sucker for quotations, and I know why. Among my Dad's books was a biggish one-volume... Read More
Give Us Liberty or Give Us Artificial Intelligence Victory Over China? I Choose Liberty
• October 24, 2020
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Earlier (2011): John Derbyshire On Understanding China And The Chinese [Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Having been writing about China for forty years, I was naturally interested to see what Trump and Biden had to say about the country in last Thursday’s debate. Answer: Nothing with any real insight... Read More
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The Moral Case for Trump—He Made His Money In Business, Biden Made His In Politics
• October 23, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Earlier: Biden Calls For Nation-Busting Amnesty In Final Debate That President Trump will lose his re-election bid is a common opinion among people who wish otherwise. It’s not just me. I got an email from an old friend who is nine times smarter than... Read More
"Hate Has No Home Here" = "Prosecuted and Convicted and Removed from Our Society." Thanks for Telling Us, Keith Olbermann!
• October 16, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] See also: You’re Next! If Biden/ Harris Win, A Crackdown On Whites Is Coming; You probably caught Keith Olbermann's October 9th address to the nation. In case you didn't, or need reminding, here it is: Trump can be, and must be, expunged. The hate... Read More
The Mathematical Association of America Defiles the Altar of Math
• October 9, 2020
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See also: “They Might As Well Put Bones Through Their Noses”— John Derbyshire On The Corruption Of Scientific America Posting on the contents of my email bag earlier in the week, I mentioned that many, many listeners and readers had directed my attention to the October 2nd statement by a committee of the Mathematical Association... Read More
SEPTEMBER DIARY: A Nation Gone Crazy ? (No, Pre-Revolutionary Russia); Into Manhatttan; Jeet?
• October 1, 2020
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The Derbs' weekly Netflix rentals this month included two not-bad movies — better than our recent average. Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, reviewed by our Steve Sailer at TakiMag was the better of the two. I didn't enjoy it as much as Steve did; but then, I don't know anything like as much as... Read More
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"They Might As Well Put Bones Through Their Noses"— the Corruption of Scientific American
• September 25, 2020
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Earlier: It’s Official: Even Hard Science Entering New Dark Age [Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Recently I had things to say about wokeness at the fine old magazine Scientific American. Their September issue had run a long article, headlined Reckoning With Our Mistakes, in which the editors groveled, rent... Read More
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Woke Capitalism (And A Nigerian Immigrant) At Goldman Sachs
• September 18, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Here’s a peek into Woke Capitalism. I shall tread carefully in this segment. I am working from inside information, and I don't want anyone to lose his job for being associated with an outlet as hatefully hateful as VDARE.com. The particular corner of capitalism... Read More
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The U.S. Needs MORE Incarceration. the U.K., Surprisingly, May Already Have It.
• September 11, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Earlier, by Ann Coulter: Mass Incarceration Saved Black America This headline from The Spectator, August 29th, naturally caught my eye: If anything, America has an under-incarceration problem. The byline is Pedro L. Gonzalez, a name not otherwise known to me. [VDARE.com Note: Read Pedro... Read More
"We Are All Michael Reinoehl Now! "(At Least, the American Psychological Association, Yale School of Medicine, WASHINGTON POST, and SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Say They Are).
• September 4, 2020
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Above, the head of the Black Psychological Association, Theopia Jackson, and the CEO of the American Psychological Association, Arthur C. Evans Jr. [Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] As I start writing here on Friday morning, the news headliner is that Michael Reinoehl was killed Thursday evening in a shoot-out... Read More
AUGUST DIARY: Hot Young Women At Rifle Ranges; "Anti-Racism" Oath At Rite-Aid; Woke Math; ETC. (12 ITEMS)
• August 31, 2020
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Walking up to my local chain drugstore, I saw a two-panel notice that I hadn't seen before, pasted on the inside of the automatic glass door. Left panel, blue letter on white: Right panel, white letters on blue: The quote is attributed to Heyward Donigan, President and CEO of Rite Aid. "A home"—what? So I... Read More
From Wisconsin to Washington D.C.—"Our Culture and Way of Life" Under Attack
• August 28, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Wisconsin got a visit from the Antifa mob following the shooting in Kenosha of a criminal suspect, 29-year-old Jacob Blake, who is black. The cops had been called on Mr. Blake for reasons now disputed. He'd arrived at some kind of sidewalk kerfuffle in... Read More
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GOP Has the National Anthem. Democrats Have the National Lie.
• August 21, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] There wasn't actually as much WhoWeAre-ism at this week's Democratic National Convention as I anticipated. Incredibly, Barack Obama got through a whole 19-minute speech without a single Who We Are. His lady Michelle made up for it with three Who We Ares in her... Read More
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United States of Antifa Converging On Peoples Republic of China?
• August 15, 2020
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Last week marked the third anniversary of the ambushing of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville VA. The organizers of that rally—a lawful, peaceful demonstration for which the organizers had obtained a permit—were attacked by the anarchist mob, who had no intention of being lawful or peaceful and no permit. The city police, under... Read More
Trump IS Dogwhistling to White Suburbia. Quite Right Too.
• August 2, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Earlier: Trump's Defense Of The Suburbs Against Obama-Legacy Social Engineering Is TERRIFYING To Democrat-MSM Complex [Clip: Pete Seeger, "Little Boxes."] Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky tacky Little boxes Little boxes Little boxes all the same There's a green one... Read More
JULY DIARY: Law-Enforcement Algorithms, the Knot of Ethnomasochism, and Yet It Moves, Etc
• August 1, 2020
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Well, from the lockdown. I hope readers are bearing up OK under confinement. The Derbs are keeping busy. Paid employment aside, she has her beloved flowers and innumerable contacts on WeChat, the ChiCom messaging app. I have home-improvement chores: this month, stripping out and rebuilding a bathroom closet for maximum accessible shelving—nearly 28 square feet... Read More
Starve Portland Out! and Back the Blue—with A Cold Eye
• July 24, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Our nation's Constitution is getting something of a stress test up in the Northwest, especially in the city of Portland. Anarchist rioters have been assaulting the federal courthouse there, along with of course some vandalizing and looting of private property on the side. (No,... Read More
THE ECONOMIST Magazine Behind Curve—Race Racketeers Have Rejected Color-Blindness In Favor of Arrogant Extortion
• July 19, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] I greeted my July 11th issue of The Economist magazine with mixed feelings: For a fleeting moment I thought the "new ideology" that The Economist was talking about might be honest race realism, and that what's wrong with it from The Economist's viewpoint, which... Read More
I’m Sorry for Hong Kong—But U.S. Must Not Import ANOTHER Overclass
• July 11, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] See, earlier: John Derbyshire: Time To Stop Importing An Immigrant Overclass; John Derbyshire: “Importing An Overclass”–The Email Bag As predicted in my 2001 China Diary—although somewhat sooner than I anticipated—the ChiComs have made their move on Hong Kong. That city is now under the... Read More
More Signs the Black-Jewish Coalition Is Fraying
• July 4, 2020
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Earlier, by Steve Sailer: The Coalition of the Fringes Holds a Muslim-Jewish Encounter Session. It Doesn't Go Well. [Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] My June Diary included the following observation: That was inspired by reading, in my June 27th New York Post, about a nasty littl
JUNE DIARY: Hell of A Month; Anti-White All the Way Down; and Life in Jim Snow America, Etc. [10 ITEMS!]
• July 2, 2020
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Good grief! They looted Macy's! Yes, the riots, assaults, lootings, and statue-destruction of the past month have been something to watch, and of course the topic of endless comment and speculation. I've been contributing my own comments at Radio Derb. Speculation-wise, there are two areas concerning which I'd be very interested to see what future... Read More
"Karen Shaming" As Interracial Intimidation
• June 30, 2020
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It's very handy to have well-known phrases for social phenomena. A well-crafted phrase can clarify our thinking about a phenomenon, help us see it as what it truly is. A couple of the best such phrases to emerge in recent years are "virtue signalling" (except that we seem unable to agree on how to spell... Read More
Look On the Bright Side—BLM "Revolution" May Eat Its Parents Too, Starting with Mark Zuckerberg
• June 19, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] The brave spirits of Seattle originally named their new country Chaz, for Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Just as all that was in play, we learned that Chaz has renamed itself to Chop, the Capitol Hill Organized Protest. Why? I asked around. Apparently the authorities... Read More
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I Have A Dream—That This Is the Darkness Before the Race-Realist Dawn
• June 13, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] It is allegedly always darkest before the dawn. Here’s some darkness: the symphony orchestra of Austin, Texas has fired their lead trombonist. This is a white lady named Brenda Sansig Salas, 51 years old and a U.S. Army veteran. Austin Symphony Trombonist Fired Over... Read More
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I Will Not Genuflect to This Church of Antiracism
• June 6, 2020
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Earlier: Police Racism: A Manufactured Crisis, by Jared Taylor When I first came to these shores in August of 1973, I lived down on New York's Lower East Side, with some Chinese friends from Hong Kong. They were fairly recent immigrants themselves, and keen to show me the sights. One evening they took me to... Read More
May Diary: Not About the Riots! the Geezer Election (I Think It's Awful); Ireland—Most Pozzed Country In World? ETC. [11 ITEMS]
• June 3, 2020
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I put these monthly diaries together from things I've jotted down as they occurred to me through the month, in approximate chronological order. At the time this diary goes up on VDARE.com at the beginning of June, all the news is about the anti-cop and anti-white riots. Those riots didn't start up until the last... Read More
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We’re Not Allowed to be Honest About Black Crime—So We May End Up with A Crazy Black Lady President
• May 29, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] America's most enduring problem, the problem of the blacks, has been dominating the news this week. The attitude I bring to these news stories is one of weary despair. They are reported and discussed publicly in language that bears very little relation to reality,... Read More
"Ferociously Hostile to Whites"—Contra SPLC, "The Talk" Vindicated AGAIN By Nursing Home Video
• May 25, 2020
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Earlier: The Future for White Boomers: Black Man Beats Elderly White Nursing Home Patients and Posts Video on Social Media Every once in a while—quite a long while; I need to be in a certain mood—I go to the Southern Poverty Law Center website and read their entry on me. This is not from vanity,... Read More
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China Has Problems In New Bipolar World—But U.S. Has Worse
• May 25, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] See also: GOP Plans To Scapegoat China. But That Must Include ENDING CHINESE IMMIGRATION! One thing that, it seems to me, is much more apparent than it was three months ago: we are living in a bipolar world, or soon shall be. I know... Read More
Why Hasn’t the NEW YORK TIMES Reported the Murder of Paul and Lydia Marino?
• May 16, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] See, earlier, by Faith Goldy: Black Lies Don’t Count—And White Lives Don’t Matter Pretty much every morning, weather permitting, Paul and Lidia Marino, an elderly Italian-American couple from Elkton, Maryland, would drive the five miles to Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery, just across the border... Read More
Establishment Reprising Emmett Till Narrative, Again. But White Lives Don't Matter.
• May 8, 2020
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See also: Joe Biden Wants To Talk About Black “Jogger” Ahmaud Arbery—Why Won’t He Talk About These Raped/ Murdered White Joggers? News-wise, I'd been beginning to get desperate. It's been coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus, for weeks now But this week we got relief, of a sort. We got an Emmett Till. You know the script. Evil,... Read More
April Diary: Lockdown Lit; Great Unpublishables; and Down and Out In New York City, Etc. [12 ITEMS!]
• May 3, 2020
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I think every educated person keeps somewhere in his head a mental list of Great Books he hasn't read. This lockdown is a good opportunity to tick a box or two on that list. Well, I have now read Middlemarch. Spoiler alert. If you haven't read Middlemarch but are planning to, this segment, and the... Read More
Australia, Sweden (!), Sen. Hawley Combat China—But Is Another Tiananmen Square Coming?
• May 1, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] On my occasional theme of educational nationalism, I'm pleased to see that Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas has suggested banning Chinese students from studying STEM subjects in our universities. He told Fox News:: The Senator is right, but late. We've educated so many Chinese... Read More
“Lifeboat Ethics” Dilemma Will be Posed By WuFlu-Driven African Exodus
• April 24, 2020
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] I'm keeping a wary eye on Africa recently. When this new coronavirus first came up, there was a general vague opinion that Africa would not be seriously affected. For one thing, the place is warm, and the virus doesn't like a warm climate. For... Read More
So the "N-Word" Can Only be Spoken By Our Ruling Elite?
• April 17, 2020
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] The Suits at VDARE.com won't let me spell out the N-word in full. I understand the reasons for that and am totally on board with the policy. It's irksome, though; it annoys me. [VDARE.com Suits: it annoys us too, but it’s because Tech Totalitarian... Read More
Globalization Meant Sinification—Until China Virus Intervened
• April 10, 2020
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Much earlier, by John Derbyshire: Importing Sino-Fascism? September 13, 2000 The hope has been expressed—for example by Counter-Currents’s Greg Johnson, as I mentioned last week —that our current travails will open the eyes of Western electorates to what a really bad idea unrestrained, unquestioning... Read More
Will Coronavirus be A Reality Check On Democracy Itself?
• April 5, 2020
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com.] It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good, and the coronavirus panic has some winners. The stock of Zoom video-conferencing software has been soaring, notwithstanding some bad publicity about its security features, or lack of them. Less well-publicized has been the bonanza for... Read More
March Diary: What, Me Worry?; What Time Does the Next Ice Floe Leave?; Philippa Schuyler, Bo Winegard, and Lana Lokteff, Etc. [10 ITEMS]
• April 1, 2020
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I'm not as bothered by this coronavirus outbreak as, according to the public-service announcements, I ought to be. I belong to two high-risk categories: over seventy and with a compromised immune system. I live in one of the worst-affected states. Shouldn't I be cowering in a basement room compulsively checking my temperature and lung function... Read More
30 Miles from Coronavirus Epicenter, Is Skeptically Social Distancing
• March 27, 2020
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Earlier: John Derbyshire Is Still A Coronavirus Agnostic, But He’s Wearing A Mask We all have our inclinations and tendencies, deriving ultimately, I suppose, from genetic predispositions. I was, for example, deeply unsurprised to see that Lady Ann published a fine spirited skeptical piece about Coronavirus on March 25th here at VDARE.com: We'll get no... 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.