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The Literary Culture of France
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Hamlet Made Simple and Other Essays
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The Eagle and The Bible: Lessons in Liberty from Holy Writ
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The West Speaks
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Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
Emmet Scott |
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Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
Ibn Warraq |
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Anything Goes
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Karimi Hotel
De Nidra Poller |
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The Left is Seldom Right
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Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion
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Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays
by Ibn Warraq |
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An Introduction to Danish Culture
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The New Vichy Syndrome:
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Jihad and Genocide
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Second Opinion
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Defending The West:
by Ibn Warraq |
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Nations, Language and Citizenship:
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Romancing Opiates
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Which Koran?
by Ibn Warraq |
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Our Culture, What's Left of It
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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What The Koran Really Says
by Ibn Warraq |
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Life at the Bottom
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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The Origins of the Koran
by Ibn Warraq |
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Why I Am Not Muslim
by Ibn Warraq |
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Spanish Vignettes: An Offbeat Look Into Spain's Culture, Society & History
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Leaving Islam
Edited by Ibn Warraq |
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The Danish-German Border Dispute, 1815-2001: Aspects of Cultural and Demographic Politics
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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What's Love Got to Do with It?: Emotions and Relationships in Pop Songs
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Here are the Blogs in the Theodore Dalrymple category. Sunday, 28 October 2012
When I visited Nottingham recently, I thought at first that very large snowflakes had settled on the streets, and this was distinctly odd, because the temperature was about 50 degrees Fahrenheit. It wasn’t snow, of course, it was chewing gum, pressed into the pavements by thousands of pedestrians. ...Read More...
Posted on 10/28/2012 5:55 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 27 October 2012
A sentence in the French newspaper Le Monde recently caught my eye: Il y aura toujours des talibans de l’austérité, there will always be the Talibans of austerity. It was uttered by the economist Jean Pisani-Ferry in an interview in the newspaper about the crisis in the Euro zone, ...Read More...
Posted on 10/27/2012 5:01 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Thursday, 25 October 2012
The slowest and most expensive museum refurbishment in world history must be that of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It is taking longer and costing more than it took and cost to build it in the first place. Let us hope that the result will be magnificent, with all the interactive features that any modern ...Read More...
Posted on 10/25/2012 5:18 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
One exchange in the second Presidential debate caught my imagination. It was the one in which Mr Romney asked Mr Obama whether he ever thought about his pension, and Mr Obama replied that he did not, but that he was sure that it was smaller than Mr Romney’s.
Of course, Mr Romney’s question ...Read More...
Posted on 10/23/2012 3:00 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 20 October 2012
The real scandal of the Jimmy Savile case is that the BBC employed him in the first place and continued to do so for many years. This is indicative of the moral, intellectual and aesthetic decline of the British elite.
The only possible justification for the existence of a public broadcasting ...Read More...
Posted on 10/20/2012 8:40 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Friday, 19 October 2012
Everyone is in favour of free speech for himself: the problem begins only with others. There the matter is far less clear-cut.
The scope of the permissible has been raised acutely by the reaction in the Moslem world to the anti-Islamic film made in the United States and the cartoons published in the ...Read More...
Posted on 10/19/2012 7:50 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Thursday, 18 October 2012
Eric Hobsbawm, who died Monday at 95, was the last of the sentimental Stalinists. He was one of the most famous British historians of the twentieth century, and his books sold worldwide by the hundreds of thousands. In Brazil, for example, he achieved an astonishing celebrity.
He was a gifted prose ...Read More...
Posted on 10/18/2012 8:50 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
A great deal of effort has gone into persuading the general population that psychiatric conditions are just like any others: colds, arthritis, and so forth. I have never found this convincing; psychiatric disorders, including organic ones, are precisely what it is that makes us most ourselves. No one ...Read More...
Posted on 10/16/2012 8:31 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Sunday, 14 October 2012
Is there anyone who has never overheard the complaint on a bus or train that “they can cure a lot of things, but they can’t cure the common cold”?
The slightly reproachful tone with which the complaint is uttered suggests that “they” are not really trying very ...Read More...
Posted on 10/14/2012 9:23 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 13 October 2012
When I visited the Pacific island of Nauru in the early 1980s it was populated by the kind of human mastodons who have since become extremely common in the United States and elsewhere. Half of the Nauruans were diabetic, the reason being a combination of genetic propensity, physical inactivity, and ...Read More...
Posted on 10/13/2012 5:43 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Obesity – being very fat – is a condition that is at the much disputed border between medicine and moral weakness. No one doubts that being very fat is bad for you, that is to say has deleterious consequences as far as pathology and life expectancy are concerned, to say nothing of aesthetics, ...Read More...
Posted on 10/10/2012 11:36 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Monday, 8 October 2012
The judges in the case of Anders Breivik, the young Norwegian who murdered 77 of his compatriots supposedly in protest against his country’s social and political policies (thus creating more victims per head of population in Norway than did the September 11th bombers in America), found him to ...Read More...
Posted on 10/08/2012 5:21 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Sunday, 7 October 2012
My French brother-in-law recently asked me over the telephone whether I was proud of the relatively good performance of British athletes in the Olympic Games, to which I replied that I was not; rather, I was completely indifferent to it. After all, the performance of North Korean athletes was likewise ...Read More...
Posted on 10/07/2012 5:11 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 6 October 2012
My late friend Peter Bauer, the distinguished development economist, used to say that one of the characteristics of the intellectual life of the present time is a plethora of information combined with an inability to think in a connected way. We lose sight of the most obvious and basic principles.
I ...Read More...
Posted on 10/06/2012 10:13 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Friday, 5 October 2012
When I was a young doctor working in poor countries, I made a casual observation that old people in them did not seem to suffer very often from dementia. It occurred to me that properly conducted surveys, of the kind that I was not suited to performing, might be valuable, because a difference in the ...Read More...
Posted on 10/05/2012 7:24 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
There is some consolation to be had from the fact that if we are unable to solve our own problems, at least other nations have the same problems and are as unable as we to solve them. It is not so much that a trouble shared is a trouble halved as that it allows our despair to be transformed into gloating. ...Read More...
Posted on 10/03/2012 9:46 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
The arrest of a couple in Melton Mowbray for shooting at four burglars, wounding two of them slightly, drew the following comment from Pam Posnett, councillor for Melton North:
I feel sorry for the residents who were put in this position, I also have sympathy for the people who broke in, in so far ...Read More...
Posted on 10/02/2012 8:01 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Friday, 28 September 2012
There is one group that is not protected from hate-speech: the rich. Of the rich it is permissible, and in some circles de rigueur, to speak disparagingly or hatefully. This, I imagine, is because it is widely supposed that if you hate the rich you must love the poor, and love of the poor, at least ...Read More...
Posted on 09/28/2012 5:29 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Ever since vaccination was introduced at the end of the eighteenth century by Edward Jenner, the immunization of children in particular has been a source of controversy that has stirred the deepest passions. Mankind accepted therapeutic blood-letting for two thousand years with hardly a murmur of scepticism; ...Read More...
Posted on 09/26/2012 5:11 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Sunday, 23 September 2012
It is easier, said La Rochefoucauld, to give good advice than to take it, and this has certainly been my experience. Thus it is a racing certainty that the recommendation that people who suffer from common-or-garden tension headaches should take fewer over-the-counter painkillers – given yesterday ...Read More...
Posted on 09/23/2012 10:15 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Returning to England recently via Heathrow, I was at once struck by the prevalence of compulsory television in our country. It is as if no one is expected to be able to amuse himself with his own thoughts for longer than it takes to walk from the plane to the immigration desks.
High above those desks ...Read More...
Posted on 09/19/2012 12:50 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Friday, 14 September 2012
A Doomed Marriage: Britain and Europe, by Daniel Hannan (Notting Hill Editions)
There is nothing quite like self-interest for blinding people to the obvious, and it is the genius of the European Union to have placed an entire cadre of powerful but blind beneficiaries—unable and unwilling to ...Read More...
Posted on 09/14/2012 7:35 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Sunday, 9 September 2012
An editorial in a recent edition of the New England Journal of Medicine drew attention to the outbreak of skin infection caused by tattooing. The bacteria that cause the infection are of the same family as that which causes tuberculosis. They are difficult to detect, grow in culture, or treat.
The ...Read More...
Posted on 09/09/2012 8:20 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Friday, 24 August 2012
Interviewed last week for a British radio program on childhood obesity—British children are on track for the gold medal for fatness—I happened to hear a Nigerian sports journalist who said that his fellow countrymen were furious that no Nigerian competitor won a medal at the Olympic Games. ...Read More...
Posted on 08/24/2012 9:00 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 18 August 2012
As a beneficiary of British foreign aid – I bought my first house with money saved from the generous salary an aid project paid me when I worked in the South Seas – I am well placed to appreciate the absurdity of continued British aid to India. It is not only absurd: it is corrupt, the modern ...Read More...
Posted on 08/18/2012 4:18 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
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