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

Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!

- 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

The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias

- 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…

- John Derbyshire

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

- John Derbyshire

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.

- John Derbyshire

Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, r…

- 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…

- John Derbyshire