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John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire (born June 3, 1945) is a British-born American computer programmer, writer, journalist and political commentator. He formerly wrote a column in National Review. He has also written for the New English Review. These columns cover a broad range of political-cultural topics, including immigration, China, history, mathematics, and race. Derbyshire's 1996 novel, Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream, was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year". His 2004 non-fiction book, Prime Obsession, won the Mathematical Association of America's inaugural Euler Book Prize. A political book, We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, was released in September 2009. Derbyshire has been described as a figure within the alt-right movement, and also considers himself to be part of it.

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Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.

Broadly, Cold, Conquest, Noticed, War, Yes

I never ponder counterfactuals.

Counterfactuals, Ponder, Pondering

Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!

Day, Hired, New York, New York Times, Same, Times

The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias

Bias, Likely, Maladjusted, Right, Seeing, Things

The job of conservatives is to keep the Republican Party driving on the right-hand side of the road. There are many ways we do this. We argue, we publish, we lobby, we campaign for conservative candidates. Another thing we do is, when the GOP goes off the rails on really key issues - size of government, the National Question, Wilsonian adventures - we stay home on election day.

Adventures, Home, Jobs, Party, Rails, Ways

The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel, a play, or an opera can engage our emotions on behalf of people who are not only strangers to us, but who do not even exist! And a person whose emotions cannot be so aroused is not behaving normally.

Engage, People, Play, Plight, Skillful

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.

Cant, Hear, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

Compassion, Human, Loneliness, Soul

What does the Right have to show for eight years of a Republican presidency? I supported George W. Bush in 2000 because I thought he had a conservative bone in his body somewhere. I supported him in 2004 because I thought him the lesser of two evils. At this point, I wouldn't let the fool park his car in my driveway. Bruce Bartlett was right, every damn word.

2004, Bush, Eight, Point, Two, Years

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

Book, Gas, Lose, Space, Substance

You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and on the other: You are obscurantist ignoramuses who'd like to shut down progress and drag us all back to the 16th century, with kings and priests telling us what to think.

Back, Kings, Like, Shut, Spiritual, Thinking

Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as was the scorpion in Aesop to the dog on whose back he crossed the river. They will destroy commerce and establish socialism, even if it kills them, because that is their nature.

Aesop, Austrian, Class, Dog, Joseph, Powerful

Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

Corruption, Lying, Rolling, Sea, Theorizing

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

Enemy, Everywhere, Knows, Observer, Political, World

I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going.

Homophobe, Illegal, Pretty, Racist, Way