Author Archives: John Derbyshire
Wrong About the Right
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, Corey Robin, Oxford University Press, 280 pages
Killing With Kindness
What’s Wrong With Benevolence: Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment, David Stove, Encounter, 200 pages
Prole Tax
Tea Partiers revolt, but government still wins.
No Life on MARs
This latest populist revolt is not the rise of the Right.
How Radio Wrecks the Right
Limbaugh and company certainly entertain. But a steady diet of ideological comfort food is no substitute for hearty intellectual fare.
How Radio Wrecks the Right
Limbaugh and company certainly entertain. But a steady diet of ideological comfort food is no substitute for hearty intellectual fare.
Into Africa
Once as a colonial project, now as a moral playground, the ancient continent remains the object of Great Power maneuvering.
No Tolerance for Human Nature
Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—And Why They Fall, Amy Chua, Doubleday; 432 pages
Better Dead Than Rude
Political correctness began as a reasonable adjustment of manners, but as an ideology, it corrupts language and dulls thought.
Not Your Father’s Conservatism
Well, Paul Weyrich and William Lind have certainly offered a comprehensive program. …
Minority Report
Dominant peoples and those who resent them
The Marx of the Anti-Semites
[The Culture of Critique, Kevin MacDonald, 1stBooks, 466 pages]
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