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What The Koran Really Says
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Life at the Bottom
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The Origins of the Koran
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Why I Am Not Muslim
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Leaving Islam
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The Danish-German Border Dispute, 1815-2001: Aspects of Cultural and Demographic Politics
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Here are the Blogs in the Theodore Dalrymple category. Friday, 28 October 2011
Why do people say things that they cannot, on a moment’s reflection, possibly believe? Mainly, I suppose, to congratulate themselves on their own moral grandeur and to appear right-thinking in the eyes of their peers. Truth is the least of their worries.
What would those who wish to preserve ...Read More...
Posted on 10/28/2011 1:03 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
I don’t read the Belgian press often, but a recent headline in Le Soir caught my eye: ISLAMIZATION OF THE YOUNG: FUNDAMENTALISM SWEEPS THEM.
Actually, the headline turned out to be something of an exaggeration compared with what followed. The article reported on a recently defended doctoral thesis ...Read More...
Posted on 10/04/2011 8:21 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Monday, 3 October 2011
When I was about ten years old, I used to design cities. It was very easy, and I was surprised that everyone before me had made such a hash of it. I could conclude only that the world had hitherto been populated by fools. At the very center of the city was the parliament building, which was like St. ...Read More...
Posted on 10/03/2011 7:17 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 1 October 2011
NO ONE who has read the French press for any length of time will have failed to notice that the term Anglo-Saxon is not one of praise or endearment, to say the least. For many contemporary Frenchmen, including, but not, only journalists, the Anglo-Saxons are what the freemasons were for their predecessors ...Read More...
Posted on 10/01/2011 12:01 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 24 September 2011
More photos here (with thanks to the Skeptical Doctor website).
...Read More...
Posted on 09/24/2011 9:10 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Human rights are universal and indivisible, existing as they do in an unexplored metaphysical sphere in which the European Court of Human Rights plays the role of Christopher Columbus. So it is a wonderful thing to see the court’s discoveries accepted, applied and even extended in a country in ...Read More...
Posted on 09/20/2011 11:12 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
It has long been evident to me that Britain is now a very corrupt country. I do not mean by this that money often and necessarily passes hands in a straightforwardly illicit or illegal way, under the table in brown envelopes, as it does in some countries that I could name. In fact, it is probably true ...Read More...
Posted on 09/14/2011 5:10 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Wednesday, 17 August 2011
No interpretation of events is final, so it is not surprising that a war of words has begun over the meaning of the riots in London and elsewhere. What is perhaps more surprising is that even conservative commentators, for example in the Daily Mail and the Spectator, have drawn a parallel that might ...Read More...
Posted on 08/17/2011 12:44 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Monday, 15 August 2011
The youth of Britain have long placed a de facto curfew on the old, who in most places would no more think of venturing forth after dark than would peasants in Bram Stoker's Transylvania. Indeed, well before the riots last week, respectable persons would not venture into the centers of most British ...Read More...
Posted on 08/15/2011 5:28 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 13 August 2011
And in Britain, there is little civilisation left to stop you
Only the wilfully blind could have been surprised by the scale or ferocity of the riots that have engulfed Britain in the past week. Unfortunately, most of the country’s political and intellectual class have been wilfully ...Read More...
Posted on 08/13/2011 1:08 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Friday, 12 August 2011
The ferocious criminality exhibited by an uncomfortably large section of the English population during the current riots has not surprised me in the least. I have been writing about it, in its slightly less acute manifestations, for the past 20 years. To have spotted it required no great perspicacity ...Read More...
Posted on 08/12/2011 6:44 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Thursday, 28 July 2011
In Britain, government spending is now so high, accounting for more than half of the economy, that it is increasingly difficult to distinguish the private sector from the public. Many supposedly private companies are as dependent on government largesse as welfare recipients are, and much of the money ...Read More...
Posted on 07/28/2011 6:33 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
HOW does a man in one of the most peaceful societies in the world come to the conclusion that shooting a large number of people unknown to him is to serve the cause of his country?
Several ingredients must be in the witch’s brew of Anders Breivik’s mind.
First is resentment; second, ...Read More...
Posted on 07/27/2011 9:55 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Sunday, 17 July 2011
On a recent visit to Manchester I walked down Oxford Road. The thoroughfare is the haunt of students, there being two universities along it, Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan. I do not recall a filthier street anywhere, and I have visited more than 80 countries.
One positively waded through ...Read More...
Posted on 07/17/2011 6:41 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Fifty years from now, no one in Indiana—or at least, no one born and raised in Indiana—will be able to write cursive. On the other hand, everyone there will be able to type, and by then technology might have made the ability to sign your name redundant. If it has not, perhaps you will be ...Read More...
Posted on 07/12/2011 4:58 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Celebrity professors have been in trouble recently on both sides of the Channel. In France, Luc Ferry, a professor at the Diderot University in Paris and author of many bestselling books of philosophy, has received his salary ($6,300 monthly, after tax) at the university for seven years without teaching ...Read More...
Posted on 07/06/2011 5:45 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Thursday, 23 June 2011
National stereotypes die harder than reality, behind which they often lag by decades. In France a furled umbrella and a bowler hat still mean Englishnesss, though I haven't seen a bowler worn for years. In England, a beret still means Frenchness, though baseball caps are thousands of times more ...Read More...
Posted on 06/23/2011 12:44 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 11 June 2011
From Haaretz:
10.06.11
Israel must tread carefully during the Arab Spring
The current upheaval in the Arab world will have a profound impact on Israeli foreign and defense policy in the coming years; it has already proven that the policy of fencing ourselves ...Read More...
Posted on 06/11/2011 10:46 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Monday, 6 June 2011
Where once the British set out for new fields to conquer, they now set out for new cultural nadirs to reach. And it must be admitted that, in the latter search, they show considerable ingenuity as well as determination. In the field of popular vulgarity they are unmatched in the world. Just when you ...Read More...
Posted on 06/06/2011 7:54 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 4 June 2011
In some modern societies—and certainly Britain is one of them—satire is prophecy. This makes effective satire difficult because reality so soon catches up with it. Satire is also dangerous and perhaps even irresponsible, for no idea is too absurd, it seems, for our political masters and ...Read More...
Posted on 06/04/2011 7:34 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Thursday, 19 May 2011
If it is evidence of the decline of British civilisation that you are after, you cannot do better than go to Scarborough. It is precisely because the material traces of that civilisation are still so much in evidence there, albeit dolefully altered, that the impression is so strong and so painful.
The ...Read More...
Posted on 05/19/2011 6:39 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Osama bin Laden’s welcome detection and death recall the capture of another terrorist leader: Abimael Guzmán of the Maoist Shining Path of Peru. Had it attained power (which looked quite possible at one point), Guzmán’s movement would have produced a Khmer Rouge–type ...Read More...
Posted on 05/03/2011 4:00 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
A sentence that I read recently in The Guardian newspaper about the News of the World telephone tapping scandal reminded me of my days as a doctor in the prison:
News International has also written to nine other alleged victims of News of the World phone hacking saying it was prepared to pay compensation ...Read More...
Posted on 04/27/2011 2:52 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Monday, 25 April 2011
WHEN people part these days they often say to one another: “Take care.” Take care of what, exactly?
The farewell seems to imply that the world is full of hidden dangers of which it is necessary to be wary: in fact, you can’t be wary enough and if anything ill should befall ...Read More...
Posted on 04/25/2011 10:44 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Sunday, 17 April 2011
All attempts to reduce bureaucracy increase it, and the same goes for cost. Such, at any rate, has been my experience of the British health care system—its famed, or infamous, National Health Service.
Thus, I could not but smile a little wanly when President Barack Obama said this week that ...Read More...
Posted on 04/17/2011 4:52 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
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