Doesn’t Add Up
New algorithms for old problems.
Articles by John Derbyshire
Every Day in Every Way
Can American ingenuity bring back American greatness?
The Importance of a College Education
A review of Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College, by Andrew Ferguson
and In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: Confessions of an Accidental Academic, by Professor X
Meeting the Goose
A review of Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic, by Michael Scammell.
Rudyard’s Adventures in Wonderland
A review of Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling, by Charles Allen
When Worlds Collide
Reviewing two very different histories of the early conquests of Islam.
China Discovers the West
A history of China's relations with the West.
The Mad, the Grim, and the Sot
A review of Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire, by Caroline Finkel
On A Green Knoll Apart
Was William Butler Yeats the greatest poet of the twentieth century?
A Dance to the (Disco) Music of Time
A review of Homosexuality and Civilization, by Louis Crompton
Here We Go Over the Pamirs
A review of A Short History of the World, by Geoffrey Blainey