The Essential John Derbyshire - Derbyshire, John
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The Essential John Derbyshire collects more than two decades of sometimes controversial and always incisive essays from one of the Right's most independent voices. This anthology charts the evolution of a writer who, like many of his generation, moved steadily away from mainstream conservatism toward a franker, more empirically grounded assessment of America and The West's most pressing questions around race, immigration, cultural decay, and the durability of our civilization. Derbyshire's signature wit and analytical fearlessness runs through every essay. From his now-infamous "Talk:…mehr

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The Essential John Derbyshire collects more than two decades of sometimes controversial and always incisive essays from one of the Right's most independent voices. This anthology charts the evolution of a writer who, like many of his generation, moved steadily away from mainstream conservatism toward a franker, more empirically grounded assessment of America and The West's most pressing questions around race, immigration, cultural decay, and the durability of our civilization. Derbyshire's signature wit and analytical fearlessness runs through every essay. From his now-infamous "Talk: Non-Black Version" to meditations on IQ and demographic change, Derbyshire confronts the topics that polite society insists be left untouched. Just as striking, however, are his reflections on the bureaucratic sclerosis of liberalism and the fraying of Anglo-American institutions under the pressure of mass democracy. Moreover, his essays on classical music, pop culture, and mathematics reveal the broader intellectual landscape of a cultivated and curious mind. Unapologetically honest and often ahead of his time, Derbyshire speaks to readers who are weary of ideological conformity and the polite fictions such conformity so often requires. However unfashionable its conclusions, The Essential John Derbyshire lives as both a record of cultural dissent in the age of conservative retreat and a model of moral and intellectual courage. It captures the full range of a writer unafraid to say what others merely think, one who has never mistaken social respectability for truth.
Autorenporträt
John Derbyshire, born in England in 1945 and a U.S. citizen since 2002, has been publishing cultural and political commentary for outlets on both sides of the Atlantic since 1983. Before taking up full-time writing in 2001, he held day jobs as a software developer. His 1996 novel Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The Mathematical Association of America awarded the Euler Book Prize to his 2003 nonfiction book Prime Obsession and praised Unknown Quantity, his 2007 history of algebra, as "an engaging account." We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (2009) was described by Time as "a guiltily enjoyable diatribe" and by the Wall Street Journal as "sardonic and sometimes very funny." Derbyshire's weekly Radio Derb probably (he believes) holds the record for Dissident Right podcasts: one thousand editions from the first in May 2004 until the last in June 2025. Now retired and living on Long Island, Derbyshire supplies a monthly column to Chronicles and occasional book reviews there and elsewhere.