JOHN DERBYSHIRE: My Upcoming Speech At VDARE’s June Conference

By John Derbyshire

05/22/2023

The cry is going round the chancelleries: “Derb’s speaking at the VDARE castle mid-June!” Yes, I am; but what shall I be speaking about?

Nothing’s final yet, but the provisional title of my talk will be: “Are We Doomed? Reflections on our cultural revolution.”

Eschewing false modesty I shall take inspiration from my own 2009 space-time–sundering bestseller We Are Doomed. Tracking forward 14 years on some of the topics I covered there, I shall try to assess the gains and losses for us, the people of the U.S.A., since 2009.

Here are all the chapter headings in my book:

1. A Call to Pessimism
2. Diversity: Nothing to Celebrate
3. Politics: Show Business for Ugly People
4. Culture: Pooped Out
5. Sex: Surplus to Requirements
6. Education: Yale or Jail
7. Human Nature: Ask Your Aunt
8. Religion: What Shall We Do To Be Saved?
9. War: Invading the World
10. Immigration: Inviting the World
11. Foreigners: Inspecting the World
12. The Economy: In Hock to the World
13. The Audacity of Hopelessness

That’s too many topics for a 45-minute talk so I shall drop some, probably just covering six or seven, but … I’m still pondering.

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