Well, National Review has canned John "Call Ahead to Make Sure There's not Too Many Black People There" Derbyshire. His crime? Being too overt a racist, according to Rich Lowry:
His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible. We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we’d never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways. Derb has long danced around the line on these issues, but this column is so outlandish it constitutes a kind of letter of resignation. It’s a free country, and Derb can write whatever he wants, wherever he wants. Just not in the pages of NR or NRO, or as someone associated with NR any longer.
Ruh-roh. Somebody better get the webpage designer back from the paintball course, because
Radio Derb is still up at NRO and Derb is still
listed as a speaker on the upcoming National Review annual cruise ... by the way, here''s an excerpt from Derb's bio from the cruise webpage:
John Derbyshire's columns appear in National Review and New English Review and cover a broad range of political-cultural topics, including immigration, China, history, mathematics, and race.
National Review knows how to pick 'em! Unfortunately the Derb is going too soon, as there was great work Derb could have done to let us see the inner spirit of conservatism had he remained at NRO.