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Trust science: as, indeed, you already do

The ninth commandment is: trust science. By this we mean a true science, based on objectively established criteria and agreed foundations, with a...
National Review, 12/01/09 by John Derbyshire · More from publication
Machine dreams

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHAT shall I do to be saved? Well, I might try uploading the contents of my brain to some more durable substrate. If I...
National Review, 12/01/09 by John Derbyshire · More from publication
Commentary

Phonetically, this is an extraordinarily sterile poem. There is no detectable rhyme, meter, cadence, or rhythm; no alliteration, assonance, or...
National Review, 12/01/09 by John Derbyshire · More from publication
Driveway drama

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SO many things to know; so many points of view; so many disagreements, so many mishaps. Compared with home ownership,...
National Review, 11/23/09 by John Derbyshire · More from publication
The Glorious eighteenth

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Softly the civilized Centuries fall ... --Alun Lewis, "Raiders' Dawn" THE monument to Captain Cook is on the western...
National Review, 10/19/09 by John Derbyshire · More from publication
Creative destruction

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MY local GM dealer has shut up shop. I drive past the place every day; it is a melancholy sight. Weeds and tall grasses...
National Review, 09/07/09 by John Derbyshire · More from publication

Summertime blues

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE thing one always hears about the long school summer vacation is that it is a relic of the...
National Review, 08/10/09 by John Derbyshire · More from publication
Magnificent folly

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Is it really 40 years? Good heavens! I suppose everyone who cared about such things can recall...
National Review, 07/06/09 by John Derbyshire · More from publication
Office romance

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE question going round the dinner table was: Do you have any secret pleasures of a mentionable...
National Review, 06/08/09 by John Derbyshire · More from publication
Juvenal delinquent

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I HAVE just recently finished writing a book about pessimism. Spare me the jokes, please. "A book...
National Review, 05/04/09 by John Derbyshire · More from publication