What fiasco?
“They’ve been dead to me since the Derbyshire fiasco.
What fiasco? “
John Derbyshire wrote columns for NR. He was a bit of a flake but sometimes had a good point. One of his best columns (and the one that got him sacked from NR) dealt with race, crime and situational awareness. Jonah Goldberg, the NRO editor who makes Barney Fife look resolute, thought the article was “raciss” and sacked Derbyshire.
The fiasco when they fired him for telling the truth about the flip side of “The Talk”. And there was more truth, backed with sourced statistics, in his “The Talk”, than there has ever been in the other fantasy version (where black kids are being targetted by racist whites and in fear of their lives from whites every day of their lives. Statistics show just the opposite).
This is the article that cost Derbyshire his job at NR: