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Theodore Dalrymple on Good People

Theodore Dalrymple reflects on the difficulty involved in writing about good people in an interesting way. It just seems, he says, that they're less engrossing.

Theodore Dalrymple on the Fritzl Case

By now you must have heard of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who imprisoned and raped his daughter Elisabeth for twenty-four years. If you haven't, the Wikipedia page will give you the details.

I figured that if I rolled through my bookmarks for Theodore Dalrymple's favorite haunts, I would find his commentary on the case. After all, how could he resist? My diligence was rewarded when I found this article in the New English Review. Dalrymple sensibly concludes that we shouldn't expect ourselves to be able to understand why someone does such terrible things.

William Leith Reviews Theodore Dalrymple's "Junk Medicine"

William Leith reviews Theodore Dalrymple's Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy.

Junk Medicine must simply be the British edition of Dalrymple's Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy, which was published in the USA by Encounter Books in 2006. If you compare the table of contents on the Harriman House webpage with the table of contents of Romancing Opiates (which I was able to find by using the Amazon Online Reader), you'll see that they're identical. So we must be dealing with different editions of the same book, right?

Theodore Dalrymple Reviews Walter Laqueur's "The Last Days of Europe"

Theodore Dalrymple reviews Walter Laqueur's The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent.

I moused around a bit and found an essay that was adapted from Mr. Laqueur's book. And after mousing around a bit more, I found Mr. Laqueur's personal website.

Theodore Dalrymple Reviews Mark Steyn's "America Alone"

Theodore Dalrymple reviews Mark Steyn's America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It .

Theodore Dalrymple on the Upcoming French Election

Theodore Dalrymple, now living the life of an expatriate in France, says that if he could vote in the upcoming election, then he would vote for Nicolas Sarkozy.

Theodore Dalrymple Reviews Nick Cohen's "What's Left?"

Anthony Daniels, aka Theodore Dalrymple, has written a review of Nick Cohen's What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way. Mr. Cohen has posted a response on his personal website.

Theodore Dalrymple on Efraim Karsh's "Islamic Imperialism"

I haven't posted anything about Theodore Dalrymple for a while. I was mousing around a bit this afternoon, and I came across — I can't quite figure out how I missed this one — Dalrymple's review of Efraim Karsh's Islamic Imperialism: A History.

A few months ago I blogged an article that Karsh wrote for Commentary in which he summarized some of the claims made in his book. But don't bother to read my old post: unfortunately, the links are dead. Instead, go to this page on OpinionJournal. There you'll find Karsh's article in its entirety. I haven't yet read the book, but it's on my list.

Theodore Dalrymple on Schopenhauer and Medicine

I have to agree with Theodore Dalrymple that the study of Schopenhauer and the practice of medicine don't go together very comfortably.

Theodore Dalrymple Wants You to Mind Your Manners

You haven't been minding your manners, have you? Shame on you! In order to better yourself, you should read this article that Theodore Dalrymple recently published in The American Conservative.

By the way, if it seems that you've already read this essay a few times, well, that's because Mr. Dalrymple endlessly repeats himself. Therein lies your punishment for not behaving properly.