Manhattan Institute | Theodore Dalrymple

Of a Scale Unknown

Theodore Dalrymple — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Rotherham’s child sexual assaults remain shocking—but far from unique. Of a Scale Unknown

Beware Health Totalitarianism

Theodore Dalrymple — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Richard Gunderman begins his essay with an exposure of the intellectual absurdities, historical deficiencies, and inconsistencies of the notorious new oath administered to freshmen at the Minnesota Medical School.

Bowdler's Return

Theodore Dalrymple — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500

A publisher’s move to remove anything purportedly offensive from Roald Dahl’s books is the latest exhibit of an unfortunately timeless impulse. Bowdler’s Return

Lying to Ourselves

Theodore Dalrymple — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500

One of the peculiarities of our age is the ferocity with which intellectuals and politicians defend propositions that they do not—because they cannot—believe to be true, so outrageous are they, such violence do they do to the most obvious and evid

Knowledge and Verve

Theodore Dalrymple — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500

Remembering Paul Johnson Knowledge and Verve

Not a Leg To Stand On

Theodore Dalrymple — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0500

A short story for our times Not a Leg To Stand On

Reign of the Administrators

Theodore Dalrymple — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Under the guise of earnestness, Britain’s bureaucracy inclines to bullying and ineffectiveness. Reign of the Administrators

Chilled

Theodore Dalrymple — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0500

On lack of heat and other essentials Chilled

Judges Against the Rule of Law

Theodore Dalrymple — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0500

By rewarding favored political causes, judges are removing the blindfold from lady justice and putting weights in her balance.

Clients

Theodore Dalrymple — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Value neutral language drains meaning from discourse

A psychologist at a dinner party which I attended recently spoke about his “client in the community”. Two lies in four words: I suppose this was concision of a kind!

The Pleasures - and Pitfalls - of Paranoia

Theodore Dalrymple — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0500

The paranoid person is assured that he is at least worth persecuting: it lends him an importance of a kind that he would not otherwise have.

The Ravages of Cultural Termites

Theodore Dalrymple — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

The tiny scale of woke objectives is really the most sinister thing about them.

My Sister's Keeper

Theodore Dalrymple — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Should pregnant women be bribed to quit smoking?

Favoring Violence Against Women

Theodore Dalrymple — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Whether they realize it or not, criminal-justice liberals enable the dangers they decry. Favoring Violence Against Women

Collecting Misery

Theodore Dalrymple — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Collectors who, like Autolycus the Rogue in The Winter’s Tale, are snappers-up of unconsidered trifles, and whose collections subsequently prove to be of great historic or aesthetic value, or both, excite my admiration for their constructive singl

Flights of Fancy

Theodore Dalrymple — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

The background noise of safetyism

A Lament for the Lost University

Theodore Dalrymple — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0400

The End of Solitude reveals a man disenchanted with academic life, but who still underestimates the depth of our cultural corruption.

Tragicomedy in Britain

Theodore Dalrymple — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Amid the turmoil, the Telegraph’s gifted cartoonist offers relief. Tragicomedy in Britain

Britain's Ill Wind

Theodore Dalrymple — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400

With her incapacity and utter lack of common sense, Liz Truss deepened the already-formidable problems of her country. Britain’s Ill Wind

Nowhere Man

Theodore Dalrymple — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400

It is tempting for a successful writer to suppose that anything connected with himself must be important or interesting to others: a temptation that, thanks to social media, has spread to a large part of the population.

The Cowardice of Censorship

Theodore Dalrymple — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Freedom cannot long survive perpetual, chronic, and largely bogus outrage.

Pregnant People

Theodore Dalrymple — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Can we not call women women?

The Economics of Envy

Theodore Dalrymple — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400

The relationship between intelligence, education, knowledge, and good sense is far from straightforward. Bad and foolish—but allegedly sophisticated—ideas can beguile the educated, or important portions of the educated, for decades at a time.

Raven's End

Theodore Dalrymple — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Revisiting a controversial postwar British murder case and execution Raven’s End

Tinkering with Taxes Won't Save Britain

Theodore Dalrymple — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0400

The country has much deeper-seated problems. Tinkering with Taxes Won’t Save Britain