horrifyingly not fine." In response, fellow Corner contributor Jonah Goldberg, who described himself as philosophically "in the middle" of the two, noted: I should say that I think JPod is getting too hung up on the phrase "ethnic balance" as a codeword for all sorts of unlovely things. It seems to me that if you're going to sit down and have any immigration policy at all, it's unavoidable that you're going to address the issue of ethnic balance in one way or another, no matter what you call it. Ultimately, you have to choose where people come from if you have an immigration policy, even if you emphasize other factors like skills or family unification. So you can either look at it directly or you can skirt around it. But you can't avoid it. Personal life In 1986 Derbyshire married Lynette Rose, or Rosie, née Qi (齐 红 玫; Qi Hongmei), who was raised in China and later became a naturalised U.S. citizen. They have two children, a daughter and a son. He lives on Long Island, New York. Derbyshire was, for a brief time, an illegal immigrant. He often recounted observations from his personal life in his former monthly column, "The Straggler," in National Review. Derbyshire said of his family, "our two children are, as they are already tired of being told, half English coal miner, half Chinese peasant, 100 percent American." In early 2012, he underwent treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Published works Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream (St. Martin's Griffin, 1997) Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (Plume Books, 2003) Unknown Quantity: A Real And Imaginary History of Algebra (Joseph Henry Press, 2006) We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (Crown Forum, 2009) , From the Dissident Right (Vdare Books, 2013) He has also written numerous articles for various publications, including National Review, The New Criterion, The American Conservative and The Washington Times. Derbyshire records a weekly podcast called "Radio Derb," in which he comments on current events. The podcast was hosted on the National Review website before being moved to Taki's Magazine. It is now hosted on VDARE. References External links John Derbyshire's home page, with archive of web and print articles Interviews Radio Free Indiana: Interview with John Derbyshire on The Voice of Reason Broadcast Network 1945 births Alt-right writers Alumni of University College London American columnists American computer programmers