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National Review fires John Derbyshire
Was it ESF who wrote last week that she was surprised to see someone like John Derbyshire associated with National Review? Now he isn't...
Anyone who has read Derb in our pages knows he?s a deeply literate, funny, and incisive writer. I direct anyone who doubts his talents to his delightful first novel, ?Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream,? or any one of his ?Straggler? columns in the books section of NR. Derb is also maddening, outrageous, cranky, and provocative. His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible. We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we?d never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways. Derb has long danced around the line on these issues, but this column is so outlandish it constitutes a kind of letter of resignation. It?s a free country, and Derb can write whatever he wants, wherever he wants. Just not in the pages of NR or NRO, or as someone associated with NR any longer. |
Re: National Review fires John Derbyshire
Way overdue, but I'm impressed they did it.