Derbism Unveiled by Lawrence Auster

Your comments about New English Review led me to look at the website for the first time in many months. I once hit that site regularly, but quit when I decided it was a waste of time trying to make any sense out of it. Anyway, visiting NER, I read John Derbyshire's most recent contribution, in which he espouses the theories of "Peak Oil," Global Warming, and Malthusian overpopulation, along with taking the usual shots at theists and those who believe that Islamism is a problem. This led me to recall our discussion of about a year ago, in which I predicted that, thanks to his embrace of radical Darwinism, Derbyshire might become a liberal. We both admitted this possibility, but many of your readers rose to Derbyshire's defense. Well, as of today, Derbyshire believes:

• That Christianity is false;
• That Darwinian selection can account for all human behavior;
• That Islamism presents no real threat to Western Civilization,
• and that those who believe that it does are guilty of "Islamophobia";
• That we are running out of oil;
• That we are not going to deport masses of illegal aliens,
• so there is no point in discussing it as a policy option;
• That human nature is not unchanging, and that we may be significantly different from people who lived in the past;

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