

A devastating yet hilarious book, "We Are Doomed" provides a long-overdue dose of reality. Derbyshire argues that conservatism has been seduced by cheerily preposterous theories about human beings and the way the world really works.

To his fellow conservatives, John Derbyshire makes a plea: Don't be seduced by this nonsense about "the politics of hope." Skepticism, pessimism, and suspicion of happy talk are the true characteristics of an authentically conservative temperament. And from Hobbes and Burke through...
