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Articles Written by: JOHN DERBYSHIRE
Who is This?
John Derbyshire (born June 3, 1945) is a British-born author who lives in the United States and became a naturalized citizen in 2002. He is a columnist for the conservative magazines National Review Online and New English Review. Derbyshire writes on a broad range of topics, including immigration, China, history, mathematics, culture, politics, and race. Derbyshire graduated from University College London, where he studied mathematics. His wife is originally from China and they have two children. While raised an Anglican, he no longer considers himself a Christian but rather a Mysterian. He currently resides in Huntington, New York.
And so they turned to Grady [Memorial Hospital in Atlanta], a taxpayer-supported safety-net hospital that would provide dialysis to anyone in need, even illegal immigrants with no insurance or ability to pay …
On Oct. 4 … the strapped public hospital ...
From JOHN DERBYSHIRE,
The Corner,
21 Nov 2009
With the long winter nights drawing in, what NRO readers need is a puzzle to while away the hours. I have just the thing.
I subscribe to The Economist, and the November 21–27 issue arrived in the lunchtime post. The Economist has both text and pictures, ...
From JOHN DERBYSHIRE,
The Corner,
20 Nov 2009
There could not be fewer than five hundred people, and they were dancing like five thousand demons. There was no other music than their own singing. They danced to the popular Revolution song, keeping a ferocious time that was like a gnashing of teeth ...
From JOHN DERBYSHIRE,
The Corner,
19 Nov 2009
Really. Who let all these nit-pickers in?
[Me] Feugh! At those temperatures Earth would look a darn sight more star-like than planet-like, at least for the few minutes it existed. And I bet our light elements, sparse as they are, would seek each other ...
From JOHN DERBYSHIRE,
The Corner,
18 Nov 2009
Conan: Now, what about … you talk in the book about geothermal energy …
Al: Yeah, yeah.
Conan: and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that's generated from the core of the earth …
Al: Yeah.
Conan: … to create energy, and it ...
From JOHN DERBYSHIRE,
The Corner,
17 Nov 2009
Sarah Palin? Yes, I have my doubts. Doubts, I mean, that she'd be able to resist the temptation to "go native" once installed in D.C. Her main appeal for me in the '08 campaign was as evidence that the GOP still had a few functioning brain cells. They ...
From JOHN DERBYSHIRE,
The Corner,
17 Nov 2009
There are two current theories to explain the origins and persistence of religious belief. One says that religion is an accidental by-product of our extremely complicated cognitive equipment. Being able to distinguish between objects possessed of ...
The federally brokered ["affordable housing"] settlement is itself of interest far beyond Westchester, if only as the occasion of a truly remarkable rhetorical flourish from an Obama Administration official, HUD deputy secretary Ron Sims: "It's time to ...
From JOHN DERBYSHIRE,
The Corner,
6 Nov 2009
Nov. 4: "The elites who control the Democratic Party strongly support gay marriage even though it’s not uniformly supported among Democratic voters …"
Nov. 3: "Good news for people who hate liberals and Democrats …"
Nov. 3: "All of the other ...
From JOHN DERBYSHIRE,
The Corner,
6 Nov 2009
Pro-family advocates need to admit defeat on the premarital sex front and fight the current threat to family values: single motherhood. Abortion helps to prevent single motherhood. Anti-abortion advocates have actually been glorifying single motherhood, ...
From JOHN DERBYSHIRE,
The Corner,
5 Nov 2009
