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Give Us Liberty or Give Us Artificial Intelligence Victory Over China? I Choose Liberty
• October 24, 2020
• 1,000 Words • 78 Comments • Reply
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
JULY DIARY: Law-Enforcement Algorithms, the Knot of Ethnomasochism, and Yet It Moves, Etc
• August 1, 2020
• 3,500 Words • 47 Comments • Reply
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
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China Has Problems In New Bipolar World—But U.S. Has Worse
• May 25, 2020
• 2,300 Words • 349 Comments • Reply
[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
“Lifeboat Ethics” Dilemma Will be Posed By WuFlu-Driven African Exodus
• April 24, 2020
• 900 Words • 80 Comments • Reply
[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
Globalization Meant Sinification—Until China Virus Intervened
• April 10, 2020
• 1,200 Words • 61 Comments • Reply
[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
• 1,200 Words • 96 Comments • Reply
[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
• 3,200 Words • 45 Comments • Reply
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
• 900 Words • 31 Comments • Reply
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
East-Asian Americans Under Attack. But Who Are the Attackers?
• March 24, 2020
• 100 Words • 206 Comments • Reply
How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky? How mealy-mouthed about race are our major news outlets? The New York Times just ran a 2,000-word story about East Asians being "Spit on, yelled at, attacked" by persons who blame them for the coronavirus. But who are those persons? For deeper insights into the... Read More
John Derbyshire Is Still A Coronavirus Agnostic, But He’s Wearing A Mask
• March 20, 2020
• 2,300 Words • 69 Comments • Reply
I know you're all on tenterhooks waiting to hear what Radio Derb, the civilized world's most authoritative source of news and opinion, has to say…about what we should call the current flu pandemic! Wednesday our President squashed a distraught snowflake reporterette at his news conference: Snowflake: "Why do you keep calling this "the Chinese virus"?... Read More
Still 90% Chance Coronavirus Not Catastrophic—But Chinese (And Western) Censors Aren’t Helping
• February 7, 2020
• 1,500 Words • 42 Comments • Reply
Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively at VDARE.com Earlier by John Derbyshire: America Catches Coronavirus Panic I'm going to bring you right in to the Derb household, actually Tuesday evening in the quiet lull after dinner. Mrs. Derbyshire is sitting in her favorite armchair fiddling with her smartphone. She has an account at... 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.