John Derbyshire, who lost his writing gig at National Review Online for a quasi-racist article he wrote for Takimag, speaks in his first post-firing interview.
My own sense of the thing is that underneath the happy talk, underneath the dogged adherence to failed ideas and dead theories, underneath the shrieking and anathematizing at people like me, there is a deep and cold despair. In our innermost hearts,we don't believe racial harmony can be attained. Hence the trend to separation. We just want to get on with our lives away from each other. Yet for a moralistic, optimistic people like Americans, this despair is unbearable. It's pushed away somewhere we don't have to think about it. When someone forces us to think about it, we react with fury. That little boy in the Andersen story about the Emperor's new clothes? The ending would be more true to life if he had been lynched by a howling mob of outraged citizens.
h/t Ann Althouse.
*Pic accompanying the article shows Derbyshire peering up quizzically from the bottom of a hole.
Update: Andrew Klavan's defense of Derbyshire.
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