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Below is a list of the 20 reviews or opinion columns I have published most recently. Both print and internet pieces are included.

These are just convenience links to the items, which can also be got to by going to the "Opinion" or "Reviews" page and selecting the appropriate category.

There is some variability in how soon I will archive a piece (i.e. post it here, to my website) after it has appeared in print or pixels. Editors sometimes ask that I not make a piece available on my website until some stated period of time has elapsed. The stated period has never so far been longer than a month. Nobody has yet asked me not to archive pieces at all.

From simple courtesy and occupational prudence I comply with such requests, though I may put the title of the piece in my list below without any link, or with a link to the first paragraph or two of the piece as a "teaser."

[Note added mid-2010:  After several requests from readers, I'm going to let this list go over 20 items — i.e. I shall stop removing an item from the bottom each time I add one to the top. I'm not sure how far I shall go with this: to 100, maybe. For the time being I'll just let it run.]
[Note added January 6, 2012:  I've decided to include the transcripts of my weekly Radio Derb broadcasts here from now on, since they are a considerable part of my output.]

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Date Place Title Topic
May 11, 2012 Taki's Magazine Radio Derb (transcript) The week's news.
May 10, 2012 Taki's Magazine Ridding Myself of the Day The age of distraction.
May 10, 2012 VDARE Who Are We? A pitch for "Dissident Right."
May 4, 2012 Taki's Magazine Radio Derb (transcript) The week's news.
May 3, 2012 Taki's Magazine The Chinese Advantage Who will own the 21st century?
May 3, 2012 VDARE The Kindness of Strangers And a modest tithing.
April 26, 2012 Taki's Magazine The Basis of a Real Conversation Book recommendation for Eric Holder.
April 19, 2012 Taki's Magazine The Endless Pursuit of Happiness Call no man happy until he's dead.
April 16, 2012 National Review The Great Numbers Crunch Review of George Dyson's Turing's Cathedral.
April 12, 2012 Taki's Magazine Talking Back Follow-up to my piece on "The Talk."
April 6, 2012 NRO Radio Derb (transcript) The week's news.
April 5, 2012 Taki's Magazine The Talk: Nonblack Version Teach your children well.
April 2, 2012 NRO March Diary Month-end wrap-up.
April 2, 2012 National Review Desperate But Not Serious Review of the fiscal situation.
March 30, 2012 NRO Radio Derb (transcript) The week's news.
March 29, 2012 Taki's Magazine Multiculturalism: When Will the Sleeper Wake? The madness of our age.
March 23, 2012 NRO Radio Derb (transcript) The week's news.
March 22, 2012 Taki's Magazine My Mother the Nurse A centenary.
March 16, 2012 NRO Radio Derb (transcript) The week's news.
March 15, 2012 Taki's Magazine When Sci-Fi Dared to Dream Growing up in the Golden Age.
March 9, 2012 NRO Radio Derb (transcript) The week's news.
March 8, 2012 Taki's Magazine Life at Half Speed Adventures in chemotherapy.
March 5, 2012 National Review O Valiant Hearts Remembering a brave soldier.
March 2, 2012 NRO Radio Derb (transcript) The week's news.
March 1, 2012 NRO February Diary Month-end wrap-up.
March 1, 2012 Taki's Magazine Firing my Own Bu-cannon Pat talks race with Juan.
February 24, 2012 NRO Radio Derb (transcript) The week's news.
February 23, 2012 Taki's Magazine Something's Rotten in the Republic A conspiracy? Could be.
February 17, 2012 NRO Radio Derb (transcript) The week's news.
February 16, 2012 Taki's Magazine Facing Down the Thugs Conservatism is missing something.
February 10, 2012 NRO Radio Derb (transcript) The week's news.
February 9, 2012 CPAC The Future of Elite Attitudes on Race Contribution to a panel discussion on multiculturalism.
February 9, 2012 Taki's Magazine Pat Buchanan: The Noble Relic Review of Timothy Stanley's Crusader.
Winter 2011/12 Claremont Review of Books The Importance of a College Education Review of two books on the subject.
February 3, 2012 NRO Radio Derb (transcript) The week's news.
February 2, 2012 Taki's Magazine Over the Hill at 35 The H-1B scam explained.
February 2, 2012 NRO January Diary Month-end wrap-up.
February 6, 2012 National Review The Higher Silliness Bidibidobidiboo and other art objects.
January 27, 2012 NRO Radio Derb (transcript) The week's news.
January 26, 2012 Taki's Magazine They Don't Have a Clue For sound policies, ask your Dad.
January 20, 2012 NRO Radio Derb (transcript) The week's news.
January 19, 2012 Taki's Magazine The Right Not to Commit Suicide A light unto the Gentiles?
January 13, 2012 NRO Radio Derb (transcript) The week's news.
January 12, 2012 Taki's Magazine Killing the West with Kindness Three different ways.
January 6, 2012 NRO Radio Derb (transcript) The week's news.
January 5, 2012 Taki's Magazine Revulsion Transference Where does the disgust go?
January 3, 2012 NRO December Diary Month-end wrap-up.
December 31, 2011 National Review Nations of the Mind Russia, imagined and real.
December 29, 2011 Taki's Magazine The Year In the Rear-View That was the year that was.
December 22, 2011 Taki's Magazine Ron Paul Drops the H-Bomb Who hates ya, baby?
December 19, 2011 National Review Be Nice! Review of Steven Pinker's
The Better Angels of Our Nature:
Why Violence Has Declined.
December 15, 2011 Taki's Magazine Preserving the Arctic Alliance Are Asians smart enough
to be the new Jews?
December 8, 2011 Taki's Magazine Down, But Still Russian Dial 1 for Russian? I don't think so.
December 6, 2011 NRO November Diary Month-end wrap-up.
December 1, 2011 Taki's Magazine Life at the Bottom The bungled and botched.
November 28, 2011 National Review The Proper Study I am ill-read.
November 24, 2011 Taki's Magazine Silver Linings A walk on the optimistic side.
November 17, 2011 Taki's Magazine Warming Up to the Sunshine State With the help of Salvador Dalí.
November 10, 2011 Taki's Magazine Are Blacks Natural Pols? And what does being
good at politics mean?
November 7, 2011 NRO October Diary Month-end wrap-up.
November 2011 The American Conservative Wrong About the Right Review of Corey Robin's
The Reactionary Mind:
Conservatism from Edmund Burke
to Sarah Palin.
October 31, 2011 National Review Words, Words, Words Goodbye, "supererogate."
October 27, 2011 Taki's Magazine The Rude Multitude Gaddafy gets it in the end.
October 20, 2011 Taki's Magazine Qualified Despair Pat Buchanan's Suicide of a Superpower.
October 13, 2011 Taki's Magazine Divided We March Diversity in the barracks.
October 6, 2011 Taki's Magazine Is the Present Better than the Past? Yes, with qualifications.
October 4, 2011 NRO September Diary Month-end wrap-up.
October 3, 2011 National Review Catalog Shopper While I still can.
October 2011 The New Criterion Alexandria, Durrell & the "Quartet" The Alexandria Quartet.
September 29, 2011 Taki's Magazine Raising Cain Run, Herman, run.
September 22, 2011 Taki's Magazine The Dignity of Sloth Meet Ragle Gumm.
September 15, 2011 Taki's Magazine Crazy Uncles The GOP's and Obama's.
September 8, 2011 Taki's Magazine Nothing to Commemorate 9/11: a date between 9/10 and 9/12.
September 1, 2011 Taki's Magazine Al Gore's Dream of Power Climate change is the health of the state.
September 1, 2011 NRO August Diary Month-end wrap-up.
September 2011 The New Criterion Demographic Dilemmas Review of Unnatural Selection:
Choosing Boys Over Girls,
and the Consequences of
a World Full of Men,
by Mara Hvistendahl.
August 29, 2011 National Review A Glimpse of Hell The lost souls of consumer culture.
August 25, 2011 Taki's Magazine Advice to a Lady from an Admirer Laura Ingraham on a sticky wicket.
August 19, 2011 Taki's Magazine Somalis All Over And the averages are terrible.
August 15, 2011 National Review The Failing of the Fishwrap Will your breakfast newspaper meet
the News of the World in oblivion?
August 12, 2011 Taki's Magazine Can We Still Afford the Slavery Tax? And what happens if we can't?
August 4, 2011 Taki's Magazine Give 'Em a Country Terrorism and self-determination.
August 3, 2011 NRO July Diary Month-end wrap-up.
August 1, 2011 National Review China's Big Lie Review of Hu Fayun's Such Is This World@sars.come.
August 2011 The American Conservative Killing With Kindness Review of David Stove's What's Wrong With Benevolence.
July 28, 2011 Taki's Magazine No One's Right and Nothing's Left Thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored.
July 21, 2011 Taki's Magazine What Shall We Do With the Kids? Repeal child-labor laws!
July 18, 2011 National Review Ex Libris Confessions of a book amasser.
July 14, 2011 Taki's Magazine How D'Ya Like Them Apples? Another skirmish in the Forever War.
July 8, 2011 NRO June Diary Month-end wrap-up.
July 7, 2011 Taki's Magazine Suckers of the World The downside of national niceness.
June 30, 2011 Taki's Magazine You're Not Supposed to Notice Teens, youths, thugs, and juveniles on the rampage.
June 23, 2011 Taki's Magazine Nature, Nurture, Nature, Nurture Swings and roundabouts in intellectual history.
June 20, 2011 National Review A Walk in Caria I visit Turkey.
June 16, 2011 Taki's Magazine Wishing I'd Played the Ponies Just to keep 'em going.
June 9, 2011 Taki's Magazine Twisty Colored Cancer Ribbons for All! Me and my buboes.
June 6, 2011 NRO May Diary Month-end wrap-up.
June 2, 2011 Taki's Magazine The Shadow Science of Economics Austrians the best of a bad lot.
May 28, 2011 Address to the Property and Freedom Society Understanding China and the Chinese It's not easy.
May 26, 2011 Taki's Magazine China's Never-Ending Party Not so much a Wirtschaftswunder
    as a Staatskunstswunder.
May 19, 2011 Taki's Magazine Yemen, Ye Gods A few more tiles in the gorgeous mosaic.
May 16, 2011 National Review Tumbled the Towers The fragility of civilization.
May 12, 2011 Taki's Magazine Old Age Wasted on the Old Get some carpet slippers, Ulysses.
May 5, 2011 Taki's Magazine Debating Immigration A few minds get changed.
May 3, 2011 NRO April Diary Month-end wrap-up.
May 2, 2011 National Review Eastern Light Review of Jim al-Khalili's The House of Wisdom.
April 28, 2011 Taki's Magazine 2012 Election Preview Surveying the field.
April 21, 2011 Taki's Magazine Simplify, Simplify Entitlements in an age
    of information asymmetry.
April 18, 2011 National Review Decline and Fall I become a client of the
    welfare state.
April 13, 2011 Address at Providence College Dissidence and Doom Two cheers for the Awkward Squad.
April 13, 2011 Taki's Magazine End of a Dream Manned space flight fades away.
April 7, 2011 Taki's Magazine The Princess of Miami A "tragic injustice" is righted.
April 4, 2011 National Review Hard Wiring Review of David Brooks' The Social Animal.
April 1, 2011 NRO March Diary Month-end wrap-up.
March 31, 2011 Taki's Magazine Entertaining Mr Gaddafy Muammar Gaddafy, meet Joe Orton.
March 24, 2011 Taki's Magazine Laughter in the Dark May he poop on my knee?
March 21, 2011 National Review Recycling the Sixties Brace for the commemorations.
March 17, 2011 Taki's Magazine No Sex Please, We're Japanese Demography and good behavior.
March 9, 2011 Taki's Magazine Listening to Louis Black America's cargo cult.
March 8, 2011 NRO February Diary Month-end wrap-up.
March 3, 2011 Taki's Magazine Europe's Great Berm Ructions in North Africa.
February 24, 2011 Taki's Magazine Make Love, Not War Castrating the military.
February 21, 2011 National Review Morpheme Addiction Learning to talk Turkey.
February 17, 2011 Taki's Magazine Measuring the World Rods, roods, noggins, and guineas.
February 9, 2011 Taki's Magazine Muscular Liberalism How nations sink, by darling schemes oppress'd.
February 7, 2011 National Review Maternity and Tyranny The Tiger Mom debate.
February 2, 2011 Taki's Magazine The Futility of Dissidence Did Solzhenitsyn make a difference?
February 2, 2011 NRO January Diary Month-end wrap-up.
January 27, 2011 Taki's Magazine The Multicultural Cringe Lang Lang's patriotism, and Obama's.
January 24, 2011 National Review Shovel Ready I fill a hole.
January 19, 2011 Taki's Magazine Genomics: China's New Killer App The new Internet?
January 12, 2011 Taki's Magazine Republic of Hysteria Let the shrieking begin.
January 5, 2011 Taki's Magazine Loyalty to the Tribe Churchgoing for functional atheists.
January 4, 2011 NRO December Diary Month-end wrap-up.
January 2011 The New Criterion The Starry Messenger Review of two new biographies of Galileo.
December 29, 2010 Taki's Magazine Girly Nation Sliding into decadence.
December 22, 2010 Taki's Magazine Noble Lies Are for Children A Q&A With Jared Taylor.
December 20, 2010 National Review Hats Checked If you want to get ahead, get a hat!
December 15, 2010 Taki's Magazine Pigford at the Trough Scam of the century.
Fall 2010 Claremont Review of Books Meeting the Goose Review of
        Koestler: The Literary and
        Political Odyssey of
        a Twentieth-Century Skeptic
            by Michael Scammell
December 9, 2010 The Fortnightly Review A nearly forgotten man of many universes Review of The Many Worlds of
       Hugh Everett III by Peter Byrne
December 8, 2010 Taki's Magazine The Virtue of Selective Mourning Who loves ya?
December 2, 2010 NRO November Diary Month-end wrap-up.
December 1, 2010 Taki's Magazine The Pleasures of Travel Pat me down, please.
November 24, 2010 Taki's Magazine Bailing Out Ireland What went wrong.
November 16, 2010 Taki's Magazine From Baby Boom to Bust The Obama anomaly.
November 15, 2010 National Review Sad, Bad, Mad Capital punishment then and now.
November 10, 2010 Taki's Magazine Ethnomasochism — The Musical! Hating your own kind.
November 3, 2010 Taki's Magazine It's That Man Again The one with the
    Charlie Chaplin moustache.
November 2, 2010 NRO October Diary Month-end wrap-up.
October 27, 2010 Taki's Magazine Reading the New York Times So you don't have to.
October 22, 2010 (Address to the H.L. Mencken Club) Men versus the Man, 100 Years On Review of an obscure Mencken book.
October 20, 2010 Taki's Magazine The Solipsism of John Edgar Wideman Black black blackety black.
October 18, 2010 National Review A Sea of Glass The past, present, and future of
    an indispensible material.
October 13, 2010 Taki's Magazine "The Plague That Is Killing Our Youth" The war against human nature grinds on.
October 6, 2010 NRO September Diary Month-end wrap-up.
October 6, 2010 Taki's Magazine The Race for New York  … and Why Andrew Cuomo's Got "Game."
October 4, 2010 National Review Bliss Was It … Review of Garland Tucker's
    The High Tide
        of American Conservatism:
            Davis, Coolidge,
                and the 1924 Election
October 2010 The New Criterion Stop Smiling Review of Roger Scruton's
    The Uses of Pessimism.
September 29, 2010 Taki's Magazine Blaming the Teachers The movie Waiting for Superman.
September 22, 2010 Taki's Magazine Diversity Down Under The news from New Zealand.
September 20, 2010 National Review Labor Pains The world of work.
September 15, 2010 Taki's Magazine Is Islam The New Communism? If it is, can we proscribe it?
September 8, 2010 Taki's Magazine Still Bowling Alone Robert Putnam's hopes (mostly) dashed.
September 3, 2010 NRO August Diary Month-end wrap-up.
September 1, 2010 Taki's Magazine Glenn Beck: Beggar-in-Chief In the beggars' democracy.
August 27, 2010 NRO Race to Nowhere Tear down those schools.
August 26, 2010 Taki's Magazine Diversity Fatigue Up to here with demographic
    transformation.
August 18, 2010 Taki's Magazine Lost in Time Tracking the Zeitgeist.
August 16, 2010 National Review On Thy Silver Wheels I become a cyclist.
August 11, 2010 Taki's Magazine Not Counting Crackers The new Invisible Man.
August 6, 2010 NRO July Diary Month-end wrap-up.
August 4, 2010 Taki's Magazine The Old Right's Jewish Problem Is the traditional Right anti-Jewish?
August 2010 The American Conservative Prole Tax Tea Partiers revolt, but government still wins.
July 29, 2010 Taki's Magazine White Racism: The Cold Truth The narcissism of small differences.
July 23, 2010 Taki's Magazine When Parenting Fails Nature trumps nurture again.
July 19, 2010 National Review Dinner with the Buckleys Priscilla and James.
July 15, 2010 Taki's Magazine The Last Days of D.C. The right place to build a wall.
July 15, 2010 NRO Jobs Americans Should Not Have To Do Both manual and clerical.
July 8, 2010 Taki's Magazine Long Live Queen Elizabeth Gentlemen, the Queen.
July 6, 2010 NRO June Diary Month-end wrap-up.
July 1, 2010 Taki's Magazine The National Debt: Apocalypse Now Brace for impact.
June 23, 2010 NRO Killing Private Enterprise One start-up at a time.
June 23, 2010 Taki's Magazine Faith and Demography Review of Eric Kaufmann's new book.
June 21, 2010 National Review Follow the Fleet The Navy comes to Manhattan.
June 17, 2010 Taki's Magazine Taking Sides with Israel Civilization Sí, Barbarism No.
June 12, 2010 The Wall Street Journal Five Best Five books of, for, or by curmudgeons.
June 9, 2010 NRO Educational Reductionism Review of Robert Weissberg's
    Bad Students, Not Bad Schools.
June 8, 2010 Taki's Magazine Deconstructing Folk Metaphysics Two cheers for intuition.
June 4, 2010 NRO May Diary Month-end wrap-up.
June 1, 2010 NRO Humanity's Past, Humanity's Future Two steps forward in genomics.
May 28, 2010 Taki's Magazine The Loneliness of the Immigration Restrictionists Legal immigration — the Tibet
    of public policy.
May 19, 2010 Taki's Magazine Two and a Half Men Airing Otherwise Unpalatable Truths.
May 10, 2010 Taki's Magazine The Voice of the WASP I discover a novelist.
May 17, 2010 National Review The Voice of the Derg The risk-reward equation in medicine.
May 5, 2010 NRO April Diary Month-end wrap-up.
April 26, 2010 Taki's Magazine The Hardest Problem in Social Science Co-starring Daniel Craig.
April 21, 2010 NRO "Conditional Cash Transfer"
Flops in NYC		 The program failed because
America is the land of opportunity.
April 19, 2010 National Review The Arts of Cheerfulness Clubs and clubbability.
April 9, 2010 NRO March Diary Month-end wrap-up.
April 5, 2010 University of Pennsylvania
    Law School		 Revisiting Race and Remedies:
Should the Government Play A Role
in Eliminating Racial Disparities
in Education and Employment?		 I offer a wet blanket.
April 5, 2010 National Review The Anointed Review of Thomas Sowell's
    Intellectuals and Society
April 2010 The American Conservative No Life on MARs Prospects for
    the Tea Party movement.
March 22, 2010 National Review No Hiding Place Finding each other with Google.
March 16, 2010 NRO Exceptionally Yours Exceptionalism, like fire, needs
    to be kept firmly in its place.
March 8, 2010 Alternative Right Mapping the Human Phenome The DSM may help.
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