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John Derbyshire (born June 3, 1945) is a British-born naturalized American writer, journalist and commentator. He formerly wrote a column in ''National Review''. He has also written for the ''New English Review''. These columns cover a broad range of political-cultural topics, including immigration, China, history, mathematics, and race.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Derbyshire archive )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Articles by John Derbyshire at New English Review )〕 Derbyshire's 1996 novel, ''Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream'', was a ''New York Times'' "Notable Book of the Year". His 2004 non-fiction book, ''Prime Obsession'', won the Mathematical Association of America's inaugural Euler Book Prize.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.maa.org/Awards/eulerbook.html )〕 A new political book, ''We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism'', was released in September 2009 through Crown Forum. Derbyshire attended the Northampton School for Boys and graduated from University College London, of the University of London, where he studied mathematics. Before turning to writing full-time, he worked on Wall Street as a computer programmer. ==Beliefs and disagreements with fellow ''National Review'' writers== Derbyshire has differed from his fellow writers at ''National Review'' on many subjects. For example, Derbyshire supported Michael Schiavo's position in the Terri Schiavo case, ridiculed George W. Bush's "itty-bitty tax cut, paid for by dumping a slew of federal debt on your children and grandchildren", has derided Bush in general for being too sure of his religious convictions and for his "rich-kid-ness", dismisses small-government conservatism as unlikely to ever take hold (although he is not unsympathetic to it), has called for immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq (but favored the invasion), opposes market reforms or any other changes in Social Security, is pro-choice on abortion, supports euthanasia in a fairly wide range of circumstances, and has suggested that he might (in a time of international crisis) vote for Hillary Clinton as president. Derbyshire's views on the Schiavo case attracted criticism from fellow writers at ''National Review Online'' such as Ramesh Ponnuru. The Derbyshire-Ponnuru dispute arose again over Ponnuru's recently published book, ''Party of Death''. Derbyshire reviewed the book harshly in the ''New English Review'', and Ponnuru replied on NRO with a strongly worded rebuttal. Though Derbyshire broadly agrees with many other writers at ''National Review Online'' on immigration, he encountered strong opposition from former NRO blogger John Podhoretz, who described Derbyshire's comments on restricting immigration to maintain "ethnic balance" in severe terms: "But maintaining 'ethnic balance' is not fine. It is chillingly, horrifyingly not fine." In response, fellow Corner contributor Jonah Goldberg, who described himself as philosophically "in the middle" of the two, noted:
He wrote about American schooling in his book ''We Are Doomed'', "Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling." He further argued that people "had better brace ourselves for the catastrophe" coming as a result. Derbyshire also has said that America would be better off if women did not have the right to vote. In 2005, in a monthly column containing a series of miscellaneous musings, he stated that women's physical attractiveness peaks between ages 15–20, a comment which also drew considerable criticism.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Derbyshire fired over racism, but what about his sexualization of 15 year-old girls? )〕 In an August 2012 article, Derbyshire summed up his view of American society by saying that it is "slipping into totalitarianism: into a state of affairs where to hold certain opinions is to be excluded from normal society, to be unemployable" He also stated that "given enough advance warning, I can probably get my own wife and kids out to the comparative sanity and freedom of China." He wrote: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Derbyshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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