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Theodore Dalrymple is the Dietrich Weismann Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. He is a retired doctor who most recently practiced in a British inner-city hospital and prison. Dr. Dalrymple has written a column for the London Spectator for thirteen years and writes regularly for National Review. Denis Dutton, editor of Arts & Letters Daily, called Dr. Dalrymple the "Orwell of our time."
Dr. Dalrymple has published two collections of his City Journal essays: Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It. Both were widely praised.
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Articles/Op-eds
- Britain's Cherished, Lousy National Health Service, Los Angeles Times, 08-08-12
- The Barbarians Inside Britain's Gates, Wall Street Journal, 08-15-11
- Appetite For Destruction, The Spectator UK, 08-13-11
- British Rioters The Spawn Of A Bankrupt Ruling Elite, The Australian News, 08-11-11
- Why London Bridge is Falling, New York Daily News, 08-10-11
- The Handwriting Is on the Wall, Wall Street Journal, 07-09-11
- New Efficiencies in Health Care? Not Likely, Wall Street Journal, 04-16-11
- Haiti's Apocalypse, National Post, 01-19-10
- I Hereby Resolve To Make Fewer Resolutions, New York Daily News, 12-29-09
- Inflation's Moral Hazard, National Post, 09-21-09
- Man vs. Mutt, Wall Street Journal, 08-08-09
- Is There a 'Right' to Health Care?, Wall Street Journal, 07-28-09
- Cuba Libre?, Front Page Magazine, 04-29-09
- And So He Became a Communist, Front Page Magazine, 04-21-09
- The Rosenbergs, Always, Front Page Magazine, 04-15-09
- Knowledge Doesn't Always Mean Power, Times Online, 03-12-09
- The Root of the Wall Street Debacle, Front Page Magazine, 02-10-09
- My Economic Interests, Front Page Magazine, 01-26-09
- Cuba: A Cemetery of Hopes, Front Page Magazine, 01-05-09
- Destructive Delusions, Wall Street Journal, 11-20-08
- How Prisons Became Just An Extension of Britain's Welfare State, Daily Express, 05-01-08
- Between Deference and Insolence, The Spectator UK, 04-26-08
- Europe Does Sex Scandals Better, Los Angeles Times, 03-16-08
- What the New Atheists Don’t See, National Review Online, 10-29-07
- Islam, The Marxism of Our Time, Front Page Magazine, 09-21-07
- Cutthroats in White Coats, National Review Online, 07-30-07
- Delusions of Honesty, OpinionJournal.com, 07-18-07
- The Case for Mistrusting Muslims, Los Angeles Times, 07-08-07
- Point of View: Misguided by the Stars, The Star, 05-27-07
- Sarkozy Must Ring the Changes, The New English Review, 05-17-07
- Ramses Has Us On the Run, The Daily Telegraph, 05-17-07
- There Is No God but Politics, The New English Review, 05-16-07
- Notoriety Beats Anonymity; A 21st-Century Massacre, Times Online, 04-20-07
- Post Mortem on Sellafield: Don't Panic, Times Online, 04-19-07
- The Gelded Age, The Claremont Review of Books, 04-19-07
- No Way to Treat a Lady, Wall Street Journal, 03-31-07
- The Terrible Logic of Kids, Drugs and Killin, Times Online, 02-19-07
- Casual Reaction To Criminal Brutality, Hawke's Bay Today, 10-25-06
- Babies Give Purpose To Desperate Lives, Canada.com, 10-21-06
- Suicide of the West, The Claremont Review of Books, 09-28-06
- Britain Has Been Left a Poisonous Legacy, The Globe and Mail, 09-13-06
- Divided Hearts, National Review Online, 09-11-06
- Don't Blame Me, I'm Just the Junkie, Times Online, 07-20-06
- From Stiff Upper Lip to Clenched Jaw, The Australian News, 05-14-06
- Minding Our Manners, The American, 04-10-06
- Tolerance, If Not Respect, National Review Online, 03-01-06
- An Update From France . . . (Remember Those Riots?), Wall Street Journal, 02-11-06
- Is "Old Europe" Doomed?, Cato Unbound, 02-06-06
- Bonfire of the Vanities, Wall Street Journal, 01-23-06
- A Wiser Holland, National Review Online, 01-23-06
- The Meaning of Beheading, National Review Online, 10-24-05
- So That's the Reason, Wall Street Journal, 10-14-05
- The Veneer of Civilization, National Review Online, 09-26-05
- Health of the State, National Review Online, 09-23-04
Books
City Journal articles - Moody’s Doesn’t Rate, Spring 2013
- Sharks in the Water and Out, 26 March 2013
- Beguiled by “Europe”, 5 March 2013
- Zadie Smith’s London, Winter 2013
- French Tax Hell, 15 January 2013
- “Justice” Comes to Islington, 2 January 2013
- Sentimentalizing Serial Murder, Autumn 2012
- Newtown’s Unanswerable Questions, 21 December 2012
- Silence of the Feminists, 16 December 2012
- His Inhuman Elegance, 6 December 2012
- On the Legalization of Drugs, 5 December 2012
- Last of the Sentimental Stalinists, 2 October 2012
- Freedom of Expression, Without the Expression, 26 September 2012
- Rejecting the European Project, 7 September 2012
- Hollande’s Onus, 29 August 2012
- Universal Mediocrity, Summer 2012
- An Orgy of Self-Congratulation, 15 August 2012
- Empire Games, 7 August 2012
- North Korea Lite, 31 July 2012
- Aurora Beyond Us, 25 July 2012
- Go to Manchester, Young Hoodlum, 19 July 2012
- Protesting Too Much, 29 June 2012
- A Continental Fantasy, 31 May 2012
- Ball Hogs, Spring 2012
- Erecting a Tomb to Irish Sovereignty, 27 April 2012
- Leniency and Its Costs, 24 April 2012
- A Little “Respect” Goes a Long Way, 6 April 2012
- Scotland’s Choice, 22 March 2012
- Rotting from the Head Down, 8 March 2012
- The European Crack-Up, Winter 2012
- The Less Deceived, 10 January 2012
- Revelry and Mayhem, 5 January 2012
- Barbarians on the Thames, Autumn 2011
- Here and After, 4 November 2011
- The “Disgrace” of the Majority, 2 November 2011
- The Currents of Islam, 28 September 2011
- Sloppy Riot Thinking, 15 August 2011
- British Degeneracy on Parade, 10 August 2011
- Austerity in the U.K., Summer 2011
- Clientelism on the Defensive, 27 June 2011
- Murder Most Academic, Spring 2011
- The Guzmán Parallel, 2 May 2011
- How the Irish Bubble Burst, 23 February 2011
- The Welsh Chekhov, Winter 2011
- The Virus of Hysteria, 1 February 2011
- A Civilized Man, 21 January 2011
- Jobs Out of Thin Air, 19 January 2011
- Riots Present and Future, 11 January 2011
- A Man of Letters, 29 December 2010
- The Vandals in Retreat, Autumn 2010
- When Predators Don’t Prey, 21 December 2010
- What’s Really Wrong with WikiLeaks, 2 December 2010
- Solidarity Forever, 26 November 2010
- Pork Politics, 19 October 2010
- To Kill a Fly, 10 September 2010
- Modernity’s Uninvited Guest, Summer 2010
- Notes on the World Cup, 20 July 2010
- Sympathy Deformed, Spring 2010
- Know Thyself, 7 May 2010
- When Freedom Isn’t Free, 14 April 2010
- The Fix Is In, 22 March 2010
- The Galbraith Revival, Winter 2010
- Still Open, 29 January 2010
- Haiti’s Apocalypse, 15 January 2010
- The Architect as Totalitarian, Autumn 2009
- Intrusions, 14 October 2009
- It’s Only Anti-Social, 1 October 2009
- Inflation’s Moral Hazard, Summer 2009
- Modernists in Medieval Clothing, 16 July 2009
- A Modern Witch Trial, Spring 2009
- Between Experience and Reflection, 27 April 2009
- The Rosenbergs, Always, 9 April 2009
- The Two Frances, 7 April 2009
- Slip of a Lip, 5 March 2009
- The Persistence of Ideology, Winter 2009
- When Hooligans Bach Down, 29 January 2009
- Riders or Citizens?, 27 January 2009
- Reading the Signs, 6 January 2009
- No Country for Young Children, 4 December 2008
- The Quivering Upper Lip, Autumn 2008
- Pot, Meet Kettle, 19 November 2008
- Slouching Toward Fanaticism, 14 November 2008
- Careful What You Wish For, 24 October 2008
- Protect the Burglars of Bromsgrove!, 20 October 2008
- Childhood’s End, Summer 2008
- Seer of Evil, 13 August 2008
- La Cité, C’est Moi, 22 July 2008
- Grading on a Curse, 11 July 2008
- Europe’s Unhappy Union, 18 June 2008
- An “Essential Quality”, 5 June 2008
- A Confusion of Tongues, Spring 2008
- No Contrition, No Penalty, 8 April 2008
- Delusions of Virtue, 3 April 2008
- Morality and Spitzer, 14 March 2008
- The Marriage of Reason and Nightmare, Winter 2008
- Accommodating Islamic Law?, 11 February 2008
- King’s Dream, His Nightmare, 22 January 2008
- Mind Forg’d Manacles, 3 January 2008
- Separation Anxiety, 27 December 2007
- No Security, 20 November 2007
- The Problem With Leniency, 6 November 2007
- What the New Atheists Don’t See, Autumn 2007
- Crime and Elite Stupidity, 19 October 2007
- Cameras, Crooks, and Deterrence, 16 October 2007
- Islam, the Marxism of Our Time, 17 September 2007
- Time Out Londonistan, Summer 2007
- How Societies Commit Suicide, 17 August 2007
- Thanks for the Immunity, 20 July 2007
- Delusions of Honesty, Summer 2007
- Breaking Away, 19 June 2007
- Avanti, Dr. Kevorkian!, 12 June 2007
- The British Way of Murder, 9 April 2007
- Engineering Souls, Spring 2007
- A Drinker of Infinity, Spring 2007
- Leveling Britain, 22 March 2007
- Modern Predestination, 6 February 2007
- The Cost of Frivolity, 1 February 2007
- Sensitivity Lesson, 19 January 2007
- Global Runaround, 6 January 2007
- Dhimming the Light, Winter 2007
- Rewarding Bad Behavior, Winter 2007
- The Real Meaning of Barbarism, Winter 2007
- How Not to Do It, Winter 2007
- The Eternal Present, Winter 2007
- Do Iraqis Have Free Will?, 18 December 2006
- Fear of the Invisible, 7 December 2006
- A Man Out of Time, 6 November 2006
- The Gift of Language, Autumn 2006
- Surreal London, Autumn 2006
- Talking Turkey, Autumn 2006
- What Makes Doctor Johnson Great?, Autumn 2006
- The Avant-Garde of the Apocalypse, 25 October 2006
- Are Belgian Women Endangered?, 19 September 2006
- “Treating” Drug Abuse, 25 August 2006
- Vox Populi, 24 August 2006
- A Little Social Experiment, 10 August 2006
- Dependency as Independence?, 3 August 2006
- Subsidized Stupidity, 21 July 2006
- Power to the Pedophiles, 19 July 2006
- Hobbesian Soccer, 13 July 2006
- The Terrorists Among Us, Summer 2006
- Crime and Indulgence, Summer 2006
- Real Crime, Fake Justice, Summer 2006
- All or Nothing, 4 June 2006
- Fashionable Guerrillas, 23 May 2006
- Growing Up British, 28 April 2006
- The Murderer Next Door, 24 April 2006
- Greek or Turk?, 4 April 2006
- Anti-Semitism Without Anti-Semites, Spring 2006
- It’s This Bad, Spring 2006
- Vanishing Decencies, Spring 2006
- Vive l’Inégalité, 17 March 2006
- Profumo After the Affair, 15 March 2006
- British Freedom and Muslim Discipline, 13 March 2006
- Red Ken, the Odious, 9 March 2006
- Why New Vaccines Are Scarce, 6 March 2006
- Viva Voltaire, 10 February 2006
- No Beheadings, Please, We’re British., 6 February 2006
- France’s New Serfdom, 30 January 2006
- Less Liberté Means Less Egalité, Winter 2006
- Dangerous History, Winter 2006
- The Empty Fanatic, Winter 2006
- A Prophetic and Violent Masterpiece, Winter 2006
- Autos-da-fé, Winter 2006
- Strange Hero-Worship, 6 December 2005
- Drug Quandaries, 21 November 2005
- The Expense of Spirit, 25 October 2005
- Wrapping Islam in Europe’s Mantle, 24 October 2005
- The Suicide Bombers Among Us, Autumn 2005
- Truth vs. Theory, Autumn 2005
- Law Isn’t Enough, Autumn 2005
- You Must Be Healthy, 20 September 2005
- Further Feminist Foolishness, 29 August 2005
- Ethical Pornographers?, 26 August 2005
- The Triumph of Reason?, 27 July 2005
- P*ss Off, Copper, 26 July 2005
- Mixed-up Malaysia, 21 July 2005
- Ibsen and His Discontents, Summer 2005
- Colbert vs. Smith?, Summer 2005
- In the Asylum, Summer 2005
- Flower of Evil?, Summer 2005
- Missing the Point, 2 June 2005
- Thomas Friedman Mismeasures Tony Blair, 3 May 2005
- Squaring Circles, 29 April 2005
- Blair’s Banana Republic?, 19 April 2005
- High and Low, Spring 2005
- The Roads to Serfdom, Spring 2005
- Welfare-to-Work’s New Thrust, 3 February 2005
- Britain’s Sham Unemployment Drop, 28 January 2005
- Sham Diversity, 19 January 2005
- Trying to Offend, 5 January 2005
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Winter 2005
- The Specters Haunting Dresden, Winter 2005
- A Murderess’s Tale, Winter 2005
- Why Theo Van Gogh Was Murdered, 15 November 2004
- The Sob Factor, 11 November 2004
- Les intellos Speak, 10 November 2004
- The Prince of Poisoners, Autumn 2004
- Torn Jeans, Autumn 2004
- Inclusive Failure, Autumn 2004
- The Frivolity of Evil, Autumn 2004
- Kafka’s Victory, 18 October 2004
- Jihad Chic, 13 September 2004
- Who Needs Parents?, 12 August 2004
- Leftist of Privilege, 20 July 2004
- Curing the Soul, 15 July 2004
- Selective Memory, 6 July 2004
- Multiculturalism Starts Losing Its Luster, Summer 2004
- Discontent in Paradise, Summer 2004
- Clinton Psychobabble, Summer 2004
- Addicted to Self, 28 June 2004
- London’s Bonfire of the Vanities, 28 May 2004
- When Islam Breaks Down, Spring 2004
- Victimhood Equals Heroism, Spring 2004
- Who Killed Childhood?, Spring 2004
- Lo, the Poor Terrorist, 20 January 2004
- A Right to Trashy TV, 8 January 2004
- The Case for Cannibalism, 5 January 2004
- A Neglected Genius, Winter 2004
- Reality Leaves Satire Behind, Winter 2004
- Sex and the Shakespeare Reader, Autumn 2003
- The Multi-Culti Barbarian, 9 September 2003
- The Europe of Yesterday, 6 August 2003
- The Real World, 11 July 2003
- Smearing Orwell, Summer 2003
- What’s Wrong with Twinkling Buttocks?, Summer 2003
- Missing the Big Issue, 7 May 2003
- The Multi-Culti Menu, 6 May 2003
- A Revealing Exchange . . ., 2 May 2003
- Swept Away, 2 May 2003
- Blaming the Victim, 25 April 2003
- France’s Headscarf Problem, 23 April 2003
- “There Was Violence Used”, 21 April 2003
- Less Than Zero Tolerance, 9 April 2003
- After Empire, Spring 2003
- Live and Let Live—for Now, Spring 2003
- Not All Cultures Are Equal, Spring 2003
- Treating Burglars, 13 March 2003
- UK Profs Nix Israel, 4 February 2003
- Why Shakespeare Is For All Time, Winter 2003
- A "Free" Fix?, Winter 2003
- Prison Porn, Winter 2003
- The People’s Princess, 19 November 2002
- Goodbye to Prison Discipline, 12 November 2002
- The New Inquisitors, 5 November 2002
- The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris, Autumn 2002
- The Starving Criminal, Autumn 2002
- How Not to Encourage Assimilation, 13 August 2002
- Behind the Veil, 30 July 2002
- The British Left Goes Anti-Semitic, 23 July 2002
- Crime is Law, Law is Crime, 18 July 2002
- Theory vs. Reality? The French Choose Theory, 15 July 2002
- That’s Mister Hyde to You, 11 July 2002
- Why Havana Had to Die, Summer 2002
- An Undismal Economist, Summer 2002
- Theoretical Criminals, Summer 2002
- Turning Kids Against Parents, Summer 2002
- The Rage of Virginia Woolf, Summer 2002
- A Terrorist Returns, 31 May 2002
- How PC Boosts Le Pen, 25 April 2002
- Nanny Knows Best, 24 April 2002
- The Morality of Terror, 16 April 2002
- Trivializing the Holocaust II, 12 April 2002
- The Man Who Predicted the Race Riots, Spring 2002
- The Most Politically Correct Magazine in the World, 25 February 2002
- The Economist Sees No Evil, 20 February 2002
- Gillray’s Ungloomy Morality, Winter 2002
- ‘Ang ‘em, Winter 2002
- Who’s to Blame?, Autumn 2001
- What We Have to Lose, Autumn 2001
- The Dystopian Imagination, Autumn 2001
- How—and How Not—to Love Mankind, Summer 2001
- The Uses of Corruption, Summer 2001
- Puffing Puff Daddy, Summer 2001
- A Lost Art, Spring 2001
- And Dying Thus Around Us Every Day, Spring 2001
- The Dumbest Immigration Policy, Winter 2001
- A Perplexed Guide, Winter 2001
- Seeing Is Not Believing, Autumn 2000
- Free at Last, Autumn 2000
- Lost in the Ghetto, Summer 2000
- All Sex, All the Time, Summer 2000
- Multiculti Museums—Or Else, Summer 2000
- A Coda, Summer 2000
- Policeman in Wonderland, Spring 2000
- How to Read a Society, Spring 2000
- Benetton’s Evil Ads I: Righteous Consumerism, Spring 2000
- Why Brits Love Iron Mike, Spring 2000
- Ideas That Kill, Winter 2000
- An F for French Schools, Winter 2000
- Choosing To Fail, Winter 2000
- How Criminologists Foster Crime, Autumn 1999
- Barbarians on the March, Autumn 1999
- All Our Pomp of Yesterday, Summer 1999
- What is Poverty?, Spring 1999
- Addicted to Addicts, Winter 1999
- Tough Love, Winter 1999
- Uncouth Chic, Autumn 1998
- A Taste for Danger, Summer 1998
- Zero Intolerance, Summer 1998
- What Causes Crime?, Spring 1998
- Poetry and Self-Pity, Winter 1998
- Trash, Violence, and Versace: But Is It Art?, Winter 1998
- The Goddess of Domestic Tribulations, Autumn 1997
- The Rush from Judgment, Summer 1997
- Don’t Legalize Drugs, Spring 1997
- “There’s No Damned Merit in It”, Spring 1997
- Good-bye, Cruel World, Winter 1997
- Free to Choose, Autumn 1996
- The Heart of a Heartless World, Summer 1996
- A Horror Story, Spring 1996
- Festivity, and Menace, Winter 1996
- It Hurts, Therefore I Am, Autumn 1995
- ‘In China, It Is Different’, Autumn 1995
- Do Sties Make Pigs?, Summer 1995
- Reader, She Married Him—Alas, Spring 1995
- We Don't Want No Education, Winter 1995
- “The Knife Went In” Autumn 1994
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