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Theodore Dalrymple

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.

Architecture

Unwelcome Addition

Theodore Dalrymple

Absurdity is nothing new in human affairs, but it seems to be increasingly predominant in ...

Deep Thoughts

Electoral Economics

Theodore Dalrymple

“Buy now, pay later!” The advertising slogan for a credit card put me in mind of the t...

Deep Thoughts

This Property Is Condemned

Theodore Dalrymple

I wouldn’t recognize stock manipulation or accountancy fraud at its most blatant, but it...

Modern Weapons

The Triggers of History

Theodore Dalrymple

The London School of Economics has decided that it will not use dreadful words such as Chr...

California

Deep Thoughts

We Are All Psychoanalysts

Theodore Dalrymple

Immediately on reading of the recent mass shooting in Monterey Park that resulted in eleve...

Deep Thoughts

To Matter or Not to Matter

Theodore Dalrymple

Few of us who live in modern countries can see the stars at night, or more than a few at m...

Deep Thoughts

The Blame Game

Theodore Dalrymple

It is much easier, and more fun, to denounce bad behavior than to behave well. Denunciatio...

Deep Thoughts

Cash Out

Theodore Dalrymple

My relatively scant hair having grown into a porcupine-type mess and having both a video p...

Beirut, Lebanon

How-To

Look to the Lebanon

Theodore Dalrymple

There is, apparently, a saying in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the effect tha...

Deep Thoughts

On Purpose

Theodore Dalrymple

Were it not for the fact that I have been losing things from the time I possessed anything...

Semantics

Cuckoo Policies

Theodore Dalrymple

Stanford University has published, to much-deserved derision, a kind of index of prohibite...

Deep Thoughts

Artificial Art

Theodore Dalrymple

For all of us who scribble for publication, at however low a level, all activities other t...

Sports

FIFA Fanaticism

Theodore Dalrymple

“There is nothing either good or bad,” said Hamlet, “but thinking makes it so.” I ...

Afternoon Delight

The Kindness of Strangers

Theodore Dalrymple

It is nearly Christmas—or what Google, with its acute sensitivity toward Muslims, Hindus...

Sandro Botticelli, Adoration of the Magi (circa 1475).

You're Fired!

The Woke Chokehold

Theodore Dalrymple

One of the most astonishing things about the woke is their high boredom threshold. They se...

Deep Thoughts

A Cloud of Unknowing

Theodore Dalrymple

Financial collapses are interesting and sometimes hilarious for those who observe them, bu...

Sam Bankman-Fried

Scandal

Hair-Brained Schemes

Theodore Dalrymple

Thank God I don’t understand cryptocurrency, otherwise I should have lost all my money a...

Fascists!

Protesting Too Much

Theodore Dalrymple

One evening a couple of weeks ago, I happened with my wife to be walking past the Queen El...

Deep Thoughts

Making a Hell of Heaven

Theodore Dalrymple

Perhaps it is because of my age that I am coming to resemble Roderick Usher and his abomin...

High Society

A Service Economy Without Service

Theodore Dalrymple

Recently, I had the doubtful pleasure of flying aboard British Airways back to London. No ...

Hugo Chávez

Looking Back

Chavez’s Successors

Theodore Dalrymple

Some years ago, I vowed to catalog my books and tidy up my study before I died to make thi...

Deep Thoughts

Nursing a Grudge

Theodore Dalrymple

A British nurse called Miranda Hughes said in a television debate that people who voted Co...

In Google’s Bad Books

Theodore Dalrymple

Censorship veers between the sinister and the farcical. Perhaps it reached its apogee of f...

Ideology

An Epidemic of Ideology

Theodore Dalrymple

Earlier this week, I received two articles by email, one from the American right and one f...

Zeitgeist

One-Way Ticket

Theodore Dalrymple

A government of the people, in Lincoln’s phrase, has changed by degrees into a people of...

The Untold Story

The Power of Paranoia

Theodore Dalrymple

Everyone is agreed that the COVID-19 pandemic drove people mad, but there is disagreement ...

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