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.
He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would ven… - John Derbyshire
He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would ven…
- John Derbyshire
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 an… - John Derbyshire
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 an…
Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant. - John Derbyshire
Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.
Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, r… - John Derbyshire
Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, r…
Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day! - John Derbyshire
Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!
Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as wa… - John Derbyshire
Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as wa…
The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias - John Derbyshire
The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias
Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always. - John Derbyshire
Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.
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 p… - John Derbyshire
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 p…
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