Theodore Dalrymple 
Theodore Dalrymple is an author and retired doctor who has written for many publications round the world, including the Spectator (London), the Wall Street Journal (New York) and The Australian (Sydney). He writes a monthly column in New English Review and is contributing editor of the City Journal of New York. His latest book is Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality, Encounter Books.
Cultural Caviar
Tyranny Is TimelessDec 15 2018 I seldom give advice, the taste of others being so very different from my own, but I strongly advise anyone who is in London before |
All About Me
The Merits of Nepotism and BoastingDec 08 2018 There was once a medical student of my acquaintance who consistently scored lower marks on multiple-choice examination papers than could have been expected by chance, |
Cultural Caviar
A Regime of Bread and CircusesDec 01 2018 Supermarkets are undoubtedly convenient, but convenience and a large choice of cheap comestibles is far from being the highest human good. Supermarkets destroy the small |
Cultural Caviar
The Dangers of AppeasementNov 24 2018 With that almost infallible instinct for making the wrong decision possessed by the British government, headed by nullity-made-flesh Theresa May, Britain has refused the request |
All About Me
Witchcraft: The Selfie of the SoulNov 17 2018 Like practically everyone else, I look at my phone or turn on my computer as soon as I wake to find out what has happened |
All About Me
Lose YourselfNov 10 2018 For a number of years I have been fighting a lonely one-man (or should I say one-person?) battle against self-esteem—not my own, of course, because |
Apocalypse Now
The End Is Near?Nov 03 2018 When I was a boy, there were men, mainly quite old and apparently with nothing else to do, who walked up and down the prominent |
Cultural Caviar
Bad FormOct 27 2018 My bank is large and I am small: Perhaps that is why it feels entitled to write to me so impertinently. I received a letter |
Cultural Caviar
Parthenoffspring of InterestOct 20 2018 The continued thoughtless use of the word person continues to puzzle me. Who was the Per whose son gave his name to every member of |
Architecture
Eyesores GaloreOct 13 2018 Nearly three quarters of a century after his death, Hitler’s shadow continues to fall across Europe. Any dissent from any modern orthodoxy, no matter how |
Cultural Caviar
The Era of Emotional KitschOct 06 2018 We live, as perhaps we always have lived, in curious times. On the one hand, we have never been as sensitive to what people say |
Politics
A Figure of SpeechSep 29 2018 I don’t much care for Mr. Donald Trump as a person. He strikes me as vain, vulgar, blustering, boastful, shameless, and fundamentally uninteresting except as |
Cultural Caviar
The Rwandan ModelSep 22 2018 A few years before the genocide, I traveled through Rwanda. It struck me then as having been, by African standards, a very well-organized country. You |
Cultural Caviar
Children of the MobSep 15 2018 It was a beautiful day in Paris for a demonstration, brilliantly sunny and not too hot, and the crowds were out: obviously bourgeois, prosperous, well-behaved, |
Cultural Caviar
The Incessant Pendulum SwingSep 08 2018 The case of Ariana Grande and the bishop who was a little too familiar with her reminded me of my adolescence. In those far-off days, |
All About Me
Unfit to a TSep 01 2018 Sitting in two airports last week, in Paris and Riga, it suddenly occurred to me that I had not seen a single person who was |
Cultural Caviar
From Vegeterianism to Gluten-phobiaAug 25 2018 In France, a country of meat eaters, there has recently been a spate of attacks on butcher shops by militant vegans. They have smashed the |
Cultural Caviar
Bad FormAug 18 2018 A distinguished former colleague of mine—all my former colleagues are distinguished, ex officio so to speak—received an e-mail from someone in the administration who called |
Cultural Caviar
The Fraudulent Fräulein (and Friend of Freud)Aug 11 2018 From time to time I would meet the late Professor Michael Shepherd for a drink. He was a most distinguished researcher in the psychiatric field, |
Cultural Caviar
Beyond TranslationAug 04 2018 The key to a successful career in any modern bureaucracy, it seems to me, is the mastery of and willingness to use a certain kind |
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Milking the SystemJul 28 2018 Last week I was invited by internet to sign a petition asking the British prime minister, Mrs. May, not to snatch free milk from the |
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Remembrance of Vulgarities PastJul 21 2018 We flatter ourselves that our lives are as continuous and coherent as a film, and that we can display any part of it on our |
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All the World on StageJul 14 2018 Henceforth, apparently, the major theaters of Dublin are, as a matter of principle, to commission at least half their new plays from women. At least |
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A Measure of GreatnessJul 07 2018 This year is the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx, and on the whole the commentary that it has evoked has obeyed the injunction |
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Street-Corner SemanticsJun 30 2018 The cover of this week’s British Medical Journal is emblazoned with the words “Sex workers risk prosecution under UK law if they carry more than |
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Notes From a Messy StudyJun 23 2018 The ambition of a friend of my wife’s is to die with her house tidy. I have a similar ambition in respect of my study. |
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