[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] The big talking point of the week was the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, with a couple of hundred billion in assets evaporating overnight and blowing away on the morning wind. I ought really to be more interested in this than I actually am.... Read More

[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Martin Luther King Day, just passed, is depressing because it reminds us of a thing that we—especially we of the Silent and Boomer cohorts—would rather not be reminded of. We remember the hopes of sixty years ago: the hopes that MLK allegedly represented. We... Read More

Above, the London Times says "Liz Truss, if confirmed as prime minister, is expected to appoint Kwasi Kwarteng, James Cleverly and Suella Braverman to the top jobs." Earlier: UK Tory Leadership: White Males Need Not Apply. Will It Work? A new Conservative cabinet is in charge of the United Kingdom—but it’s missing something. None of... Read More

With the resignation of Boris Johnson for his constant, almost habitual, lying, Britain’s Conservative a.k.a. “Tory” Party is currently electing its new leader. After two rounds of balloting, the contestants have been cut down to five; the third round is on Monday, July 18. The chance that the new leader will be a white British... Read More

[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Earlier this year I read Christopher Caldwell's very striking book The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties. Caldwell argued that the reforms of the 1960s, which seemed necessary and humane at the time to correct obvious injustices, had serious negative consequences, leading eventually... Read More

New York Times token conservative columnist David Brooks [Email him] think it’s time for conservatives to stop fighting multiculturalism and embrace it. Otherwise, the GOP is doomed. [The Coming G.O.P. Apocalypse, by David Brooks, The New York Times, June 3, 2019] Brooks argues young people are less white and love diversity and immigration. He laments... Read More

This month of course ended with Memorial Day, when we remember those who died serving in our country's armed forces. The Derbs got a more forceful reminder at the very beginning of the month. Around noon on Tuesday, May 1st my son Danny came into the study to tell me a soldier from his former... Read More

Recently, I chewed over the concept of meritocracy some , by way of commemorating Michael Young’s introduction of the word fifty years ago this year. Well, meritocracy’s been in the news again last week. On Tuesday CNN reported that Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has said that in personnel matters, he will not focus... Read More

A company founded by an African immigrant just launched the heaviest payload ever delivered by a commercial company into space [SpaceX launches its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time, by Loren Grush, TheVerge.com, February 6, 2018]. But rather than celebrating, Main Stream Media journalists/ activists were furious—the immigrant from South Africa is a... Read More

Those are striking words: a true political fact, pithily expressed. Much more striking is that they were spoken in 1981, half a lifetime ago. The speaker was then-Senator Alan Simpson, in his capacity as

Catalonia, in the southeastern corner of Spain, is in the news.[Catalonia Government Declares Overwhelming Vote for Independence, by Raphael Minder, NYT, Oct 6, 2017] I was there once, back in my salad days, on my way to a camping vacation down the coast at a sleepy little whitewashed village named Oropesa del Mar, now all... Read More