- Derbyshire, John.
From the Dissident Right.
Litchfield, CT: VDare.com, 2013.
ISBN 978-1-304-00154-2.
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This is a collection of columns dating from 2001–2013, mostly from
VDare.com,
but also from
Taki's Magazine
(including the famous
“The
Talk: Nonblack Version”, which precipitated the author's
departure from National Review).
Subtitled “Essays on the National Question”, the articles mostly
discuss the composition of the population and culture of the United States,
and how mass immigration (both legal and illegal) from cultures very different
from that of the largely homogeneous majority culture of the U.S. prior to
the Immigration
and Nationality Acy of 1965, from regions of the world with no
tradition of consensual government, individual and property rights, and
economic freedom is changing the U.S., eroding what once contributed to
its exceptionalism. Unlike previous waves of immigration from eastern and
southern Europe, Ireland, and Asia, the prevailing multicultural doctrine
of ruling class élites is encouraging these new immigrants to
retain their languages, cultures, and way of life, while public assistance
frees them from the need to assimilate to earn a living.
Frankly discussing these issues today is guaranteed to result in one's
being deemed
a racist, nativist, and other pejorative terms, and John Derbyshire
has been called those and worse. This is incongruous since he is a naturalised U.S.
citizen who immigrated from England married to a woman born in China.
To me, Derbyshire comes across as an observer much like George Orwell
who sees the facts on the ground, does his research, and writes with an
unrelenting realism about the actual situation with no regard for what
can and cannot be spoken according to the guardians of the mass culture.
Derbyshire sees a nation at risk, with its ruling class either enthusiastically
promoting or passively accepting its transformation into the kind of
economically stratified, authoritarian, and impoverished society which
caused so many immigrants to leave their nations of origin and come
to the U.S. in the first place.
If you are a
Kindle
Unlimited subscriber, the
Kindle edition is free.
This essays in this book are available online for free, so I
wouldn't buy the paperback or pay full price for the Kindle
version, but if you have Kindle Unlimited, the price is right.
August 2015 