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Jury selection began this week for the conviction…Oops, sorry: I mean the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin on charges that he murdered the Holy Blessed Martyr George Floyd in Minneapolis last year. As I write, here we are in Day Five of the jury selection, with half of the jurors selected. Ive been following Andrew Brancas coverage of the jury selection at Legal Insurrection with side trips to Scott Johnsons coverage at PowerLine blog. Branca is a seasoned attorney in Massachuset...

01 — Intro.     And Radio Derb is on the air! That was one of Haydns Derbyshire Marches and this is your stoically genial host John Derbyshire, reporting in with VDARE.coms weekly podcast summary of significant events — "significant" as defined by me. Hey, its my podcast. Top of the list this week are three setbacks for the Dissident Right. These setbacks are significant in themselves, for what they tell us about our political culture at the highest levels, but they are particularly ...

What is your current position? Right now I am between jobs, taking a deep breath after four years as the Chief Speechwriter at the State Department in the Trump Administration. What inspired you to choose this career path? It sometimes seems that the speechwriting path chose me…writing has always come very naturally to me. I’ve also had a keen interest in conservative thought and politics since high school. So the path just evolved somewhat naturally. What are you currently working on? My p...

CRB: The Electoral College by dawn’s early light This morning we conclude our preview of the new (Winter) issue of the Claremont Review of Books. Taking a rounded look at the presidential election and its aftermath, we have featured four essays directed at those with an open mind who seek to understand what happened. The posts featuring the essays earlier this week are here (Charles Kesler, “After January 6th”), here (Andrew Bush, “Why Trump lost”), here (William Voegeli, “You’re ...

CRB: The continuing crisis Michael Anton wrote “The Flight 93 election” on the then upcoming 2016 presidential election under the pseudonym Publius Decius Mus. Published by the Claremont Review of Books on September 5, it proved to be the most consequential essay on the election because Rush Limbaugh took it up and read from it on his September 7 show that year. When Anton returned in 2020 with The Stakes and the American Mind essay “The coming coup?,” Rush took it up as well (video at...

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Podcast: The 3WHH, on Elites Vs. Consent of the Governed Well, we had planned to continue our tutorial on the natural law basis for genuine constitutional originalism, but we two professors reverted to form and didn’t prepare! And we’ve got standards, so we’re not going to fake it. Instead, we got distracted by the news of the week, including France— France!—deploring the wokeness of American university culture and calling it a threat to French culture. Can it really be after all this...

President Donald Trump finally did what the foremost metaphor associated with his political rise would have suggested -- he plowed his plane into the ground.

Christian Vanderbrouk Jan 25, 2021 8:20 PM ET Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh also entered the secessionist fray, telling his audience that America is “trending toward secession” and that “there cannot be a peaceful coexistence” between the right and left. Things have moved surprisingly quickly for a taboo subject that, in the modern era, has never been more than a plaything for cranks and purveyors of self-published race war fantasy fiction. The Claremont Institut...

The nation's top law enforcement agency is checking the backgrounds of standing members of the National Guard saying they could be viewed as a threat.