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Mathematicians call it “the arithmetic of congruences.” You can think of it as clock arithmetic. Tem...

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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to not...

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We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of para...

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We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

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

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pit...

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As a result of these news stories, millions of people must have become aware of "niggardly," who oth...

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The ordinary modes of human thinking are magical, religious, social, and personal. We want our wishe...

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We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.

We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

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John Derbyshire

Writer

Born: 1945-06-03

Died: N/A

John Derbyshire (born 3 June 1945) is a British-born naturalized American writer, journalist and commentator. He formerly wrote a column in National Review. He has also written for the New English Review. His columns cover a broad range of political and cultural topics, including immigration, China, history, mathematics and race.More