John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire | |
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Born | Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom | 3 June 1945
Citizenship | United States of America |
Alma mater | University College London, University of London |
Occupation(s) | Computer programmer, journalist, political commentator |
Website | JohnDerbyshire.com |
John Derbyshire (born 3 June 1945) is a British-born American journalist, political commentator, and computer programmer. He was noted for being one of the last
In the article that caused his firing, Derbyshire suggested that
He has also written for the
Early life
Derbyshire attended the Northampton School for Boys and graduated from University College London, of the University of London, where he studied mathematics. Before turning to writing full-time, he worked on Wall Street as a computer programmer.
Career
National Review
Derbyshire worked as a writer at National Review until he was terminated in 2012 because of an article published in Taki's Magazine that was widely perceived as racist.[10][11]
Derbyshire began writing for the far-right website VDARE in May 2012.[2][4] In his first column for the website, Derbyshire wrote "White supremacy, in the sense of a society in which key decisions are made by white Europeans, is one of the better arrangements History has come up with."[4]
Mathematics
Derbyshire's book Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics was first published in hardcover in 2003 and then paperback in 2004. It focuses on the Riemann hypothesis, one of the Millennium Problems.[12] The book is aimed, as Derbyshire puts it in his prologue, "at the intelligent and curious but nonmathematical reader ..."
Prime Obsession explores such topics as
]In 2006, Joseph Henry Press published another Derbyshire book of popular mathematics: Unknown Quantity: A Real And Imaginary History of Algebra.[citation needed]
Role in Way of the Dragon
Derbyshire had an uncredited role in
Views
Derbyshire writes in general from a small government conservative perspective. He notably ridiculed George W. Bush's "itty-bitty tax cut, paid for by dumping a slew of federal debt on your children and grandchildren,"[15] derided Bush as too sure of his religious convictions and for his "rich-kid-ness".[16] He has noted that small-government conservatism is unlikely to ever take hold in the United States (although he is personally sympathetic to it), called for immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq (but favoured the invasion), opposed market reforms or any other changes in Social Security, supported legal access to abortion, supported euthanasia in a fairly wide range of circumstances, and suggested that he might (in a time of international crisis) vote for Hillary Clinton as president.[17] Derbyshire wrote about American schooling in his book We Are Doomed, "Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling." He further argued that people "had better brace ourselves for the catastrophe" coming as a result.[18]
Derbyshire once argued that America would be better off if women did not have the right to vote.[19] In 2005, in a monthly column containing a series of miscellaneous musings, he controversially stated that women's physical attractiveness peaks between ages 15 and 20.[20][21]
Derbyshire was one of the inaugural speakers at the Mencken Club, a far-right club formed by Paul Gottfried and Richard B. Spencer, and has spoken at the group several additional times. The Mencken Club has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a white nationalist organization.[22][23]
Conflicts with National Review
Derbyshire differed from other writers at National Review magazine on many subjects. For example, Derbyshire supported
Though Derbyshire broadly agreed with other writers at National Review Online on immigration, he encountered strong opposition from former NRO blogger John Podhoretz, who described Derbyshire's comments on restricting immigration to maintain "ethnic balance" in severe terms: "But maintaining 'ethnic balance' is not fine. It is chillingly, horrifyingly not fine."[27]
Personal life
Derbyshire's has been married to Lynette Rose Derbyshire, a Chinese immigrant, since 1986.
Published works
- ISBN 0-312-15649-9
- ISBN 0-452-28525-9
- Unknown Quantity: A Real And Imaginary History of Algebra (Joseph Henry Press, 2006) ISBN 0-309-09657-X
- ISBN 978-0-307-40958-4
- From the Dissident Right (Vdare Books, 2013) ISBN 978-1304001542
He has also written numerous articles for various publications, including National Review, The New Criterion, The American Conservative and The Washington Times.
Derbyshire records a weekly podcast called "Radio Derb," in which he comments on current events. The podcast was hosted on the National Review website before being moved to Taki's Magazine. It is now hosted on VDARE.
References
- ^ "Re: Paleocons On Immigration". National Review. 19 March 2003. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ a b c Matthews, Dylan (6 May 2016). "Paleoconservatism, the movement that explains Donald Trump, explained". Vox. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ a b c Byers, Dylan (7 April 2012). "National Review fires John Derbyshire". POLITICO. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ^ a b c "VDARE". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
White supremacy, in the sense of a society in which key decisions are made by white Europeans, is one of the better arrangements History has come up with. There have of course been some blots on the record, but I don't see how it can be denied that net-net, white Europeans have made a better job of running fair and stable societies than has any other group.
- ^ "John Derbyshire archive". National Review Online. Retrieved 13 April 2007.
- ^ "Articles by John Derbyshire at New English Review". New English Review. Archived from the original on 23 March 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2007.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ "The Mathematical Association of America's Euler Book Prize". MAA Online. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2007.
- ^ Nagle, Angela (2017). Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right. John Hunt Publishing.
Right wing voices that claim to have been purged from the conservative movement, like Peter Brimelow and John Derbyshire, have formed part of the alt-right.
- National Review Online. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ Davidson Sorkin, Amy (9 April 2012). "Why the National Review Fired John Derbyshire". The New Yorker. New York City. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
- ^ S. W. Graham. "Read This: Prime Obsession". The Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 30 October 2009.
- ^ "Twelve questions for John Derbyshire". The Economist. 18 July 2009. Retrieved 30 October 2009.
- ^ John Derbyshire (15 October 2003). "Thug (Uncredited)". National Review. Retrieved 13 April 2007.
- ^ John Derbyshire (10 May 2005). "Twilight of Conservatism". National Review Online. Retrieved 13 April 2007.
- ^ John Derbyshire (5 July 2006). "Gone, but Not Forgotten". National Review Online. Archived from the original on 16 February 2007. Retrieved 13 April 2007.
- ^ John Derbyshire (24 June 2005). "Just Got Back From The Windy City ..." National Review Online. Archived from the original on 20 January 2008. Retrieved 13 April 2007.
- ^ Derbyshire, John (7 July 2011). "The Credentialed Society". National Review. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
- ^ Shakir, Faiz (30 September 2009). "National Review's John Derbyshire: Women Should Not Have The Right To Vote". web.archive.org. ThinkProgress.org. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
- ^ "Northeast Asia heating up?". National Review Online. 30 November 2005. Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
- ^ "John Derbyshire fired over racism, but what about his sexualization of 15-year-old girls?". Hugo Schwyzer. 8 April 2012. Archived from the original on 11 September 2015.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Hartzell, Stephanie L. (2018). "Alt-White: Conceptualizing the "Alt-Right" as a Rhetorical Bridge between White Nationalism and Mainstream Public Discourse" (PDF). Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric. 8 (1/2): 6–18. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
- ^ Piggott, Stephen (4 November 2016). "White Nationalists to Gather in Baltimore for the Ninth Annual H.L. Mencken Club Conference". HateWatch. Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
- ^ Ramesh Ponnuru (23 March 2005). "Contra Derbyshire". National Review. Retrieved 13 April 2007.
- ^ John Derbyshire (June 2006). "A Frigid and Pitiless Dogma". New English Review. Archived from the original on 15 April 2007. Retrieved 13 April 2007.
- ^ Ponnuru, Ramesh (7 June 2006). "Unreason John Derbyshire vs. Pro-Lifers". National Review. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
- ^ John Podhoretz (12 May 2006). "Ethnic Balance?". National Review. Archived from the original on 20 January 2008. Retrieved 13 April 2007.
- ^ "Family Album". Johnderbyshire.com. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
- ^ "John Derbyshire". John Derbyshire. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
- ^ O'Connor, Maureen (9 April 2012). "'I May Give Up Writing and Work as a Butler': Interview with John Derbyshire". Gawker. Archived from the original on 10 April 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
External links
Interviews
- Radio Free Indiana: Interview with John Derbyshire Archived 12 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine on The Voice of Reason Broadcast Network
- Appearances on C-SPAN