As we lose the written word, we lose something even more valuable. We are becoming less literate and dumber!
Author: John Derbyshire (John Derbyshire)
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‘Common Sense’ at 250
A quarter-millennium since its publication, it turns out Common Sense is not so common.
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Homelessness Ain’t What It Was
The class of traveling homeless called “tramps” and “hobos” are an endangered species in Western societies, which are now too dangerous to support their existence.
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‘Jim Snow’ Has Begun to Melt
There are increasing signs that the era of white guilt and socially approved racism against whites is at an end. The publication of Jason Riley's 'The Affirmative Action Myth' is one such sign.
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Geezer Chat
You know things are bad for the younger generations when even old folks are talking about how hard it is for the young to buy homes and find jobs.
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Hesperophobia Hall
Created by FDR and Churchill, the only thing that unites the United Nations members today is their hatred of Western culture.
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What Is the West?
For many, "the West" is uncommonly hard to define. One universal characteristic all Western nations share is that they are all being targeted by mass illegal immigration.
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Tiny Nation, Huge Success
Singapore exemplifies effective governance and shows how third-world nations can attain first-world status.
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Is Islam a Problem?
Islam has no monopoly on violence or extremism, but it has other distinct problems that should concern the West.
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Turbulent Times
Localized backlash over immigrant misconduct in Britain may be the prelude to nationwide turbulence—even civil war.
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Demography’s Great Turn
The demographic prophets of doom warned of rapid population growth just a few decades ago but now bemoan population decline.
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Trump Tackles Toponymy
President Trump's renaming of The Gulf of America, and reinstatement of Mount McKinley, remind us how toponymy can carry political voltage.
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Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
The penny is on the chopping block today, but other casualties will follow as we traverse down the road of progress.
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How Nations Die
England's invaders face less resistance than ever as they settle among an unarmed public led by self-hating flaccid clerks. This is how it ends.
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The Countermarch
This election will determine more than control of the White House or Congress; the future of dissident resistance is at stake.
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The Mathematics Behind the Man
Ananyo Bhattacharya’s biography of the genius mathematician John von Neumann is rich in details about the man's work but lacking in characterizations of the man himself.
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Rejecting ‘Systemic Racism’
The latest election cycle did not deliver happy results for the political right. Our dismay is compounded by the strong impression of an unfair result. Whatever you think of the integrity of last November’s elections, it cannot be denied that in the months prior a great many very big thumbs—Wall Street, Silicon Valley, the...
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Dissecting a Dirty Election
My strongest impression from the United States’ 2020 general election is that the process by which we record and count votes is an unholy mess, wide open to fraud. Counting was suspended for hours without explanation; great tranches of mail-in votes appeared out of nowhere; vote monitors were denied access; and the counting process continued for...
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Election Suspense
Where then shall Hope and Fear their Objects find? Must dull Suspence corrupt the stagnant Mind? —Samuel Johnson, “The Vanity of Human Wishes” At the time of writing in late August, the coming U.S. election is hard to call, so that dull Suspence must indeed prevail for a few more weeks. One need not let...
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Flame of Hope
The 21st century has not so far been a happy time for American conservatives. It began with an appalling terrorist attack whose key perpetrators had taken advantage of our government’s insouciance toward mass immigration from the Third World. Instead of reversing the trend toward demographic transformation, the authorities doubled down on it: We now accept...
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Blessed Be the Passionate
Blessed is the soul who, early in life, is gifted with a passionate interest in some art, craft, sport, pastime, or field of knowledge. The object of passion might be well-nigh anything at all, so long of course as it is not vicious: stamp collecting or field hockey, cabinetry or the Civil War, boxing or...
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Thinking About Internment
I am going to ask what Churchill would have called some naughty questions, and offer some impertinent answers. I apologize in advance for the extreme political incorrectness of what follows. In the hope of persuading the reader that I raise these issues with no pleasure at all, I shall preface them with some personal notes....