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Theodore Dalrymple [364 titles]
- Chancellor with Attitude
Britain’s finance minister seeks to increase his popularity by insulting voters’ intelligence.
November 2, 2015 - Where’s the Denominator?
A newspaper peddles spurious claims about the cruelty of American immigration policy.
October 19, 2015 - Never the Twain
On the paradox of good writers with bad ideas
October 11, 2015 - Terror’s Reach
After this year’s attacks, tourists—and their money—are avoiding Tunisia.
September 3, 2015 - Why We Love Falstaff
There is some of Shakespeare’s incorrigible rogue in all of us.
Summer 2015 - Isis Happens
On the linguistic constructions of liberal intellectuals
August 6, 2015 - David Cameron’s Muslim Muddle
The British prime minister didn’t go far enough—though he went further than most politicians.
July 30, 2015 - Through a Glass, Dishonestly
Thoughts on the attacks in Tunisia and elsewhere
June 30, 2015 - Into Darkness
When the victim isn’t blameless
Spring 2015 - Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder
On the phenomenon of campus “trigger” warnings
May 27, 2015 - Britain in Crisis
David Cameron’s troubles are just beginning.
May 11, 2015 - Fascists in Kilts
The Scottish National Party could hold the balance of power in the next British Parliament.
May 5, 2015 - The New Whitney: A Reply
Against the fashionable tendency to regard ugliness as beauty
April 30, 2015 - A Monument to Tastelessness
The new Whitney Museum looks like a torture chamber.
April 22, 2015 - In the Near Hereafter
Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel could foretell France’s future.
March 30, 2015 - The Man Who Made Singapore
Lee Kwan Yew willed a well-ordered and disciplined society into existence.
March 23, 2015 - Macron Economics
A minor economic reform leads to panic in France.
March 18, 2015 - The Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive
Dylan Thomas, the last true bohemian
Winter 2015 - The Coulibaly Chronicles
The rappers and ex-cons in the terrorist’s inner circle were none too bright.
February 27, 2015 - Denial and Grandiosity
Some observations after the Copenhagen killings
February 17, 2015 - Looking Away from Europe’s Muslim Problem
It’s easier to condemn Steven Emerson than to confront issues of assimilation and culture.
January 22, 2015 - Tyranny of the Minority
There is more to fear in one terrorist than to celebrate in 99 well-adjusted immigrants.
January 9, 2015 - Equating Prudence with Cowardice
France must continue to mock, bait, and needle its Muslims.
January 7, 2015 - Imagine No Religion
The French press refuses to see a clear case of Islamic terrorism.
December 24, 2014 - When Austerity Isn’t Austere
On the misuse of a loaded word
Autumn 2014 - Shame and Redemption
Notes on a British political scandal
Autumn 2014 - The Reeducation of Dinesh D’Souza
Crime is not disease.
September 24, 2014 - The Scottish Play
The Nationalists win by losing.
September 23, 2014 - The Inexhaustible Hamlet
Shakespeare’s tragedy elucidates the paradoxes of human existence.
Summer 2014 - Ferry Unfair
Thoughts on a recently settled French strike
July 22, 2014 - The French (Jihad) Connection
How a routine search for drugs turned up a terrorist
June 19, 2014 - Beijing on the Seine
Chinese police get to work—in Paris.
May 30, 2014 - To Have or to Be?
Personal responsibility plays a role in obesity.
Spring 2014 - Cruel When Not Kind
On sentimentality and brutality, two sides of a coin
Spring 2014 - Why Europe Sleeps
It has no appetite for conflict with Putin.
March 19, 2014 - The Noble Conrad
For the great novelist, art, entertainment, and moral purpose were one.
Winter 2014 - Wicked, Wicked Heroin
Addiction is a matter of persistence, not fate.
February 20, 2014 - Liberté, Egalité, Jihad
Why are disaffected French youth exchanging France for Syria?
January 21, 2014 - Tattoo Le Monde
The French succumb to the scourge of self-mutilation.
January 9, 2014 - The Government Made Me Do It
Washington wants to treat addiction and mental disorders as “diseases” like any other.
December 18, 2013 - Everyone on the Couch
Today’s psychiatry undermines self-reliance and morality.
Autumn 2013 - Banksy in Neverland
The curious appeal of a marginal artist
October 20, 2013 - Trouble in Paradise
On Sweden, social welfare, and riots
Summer 2013 - Monstrous
Polyamorist Michael Philpott killed his children in pursuit of welfare benefits.
Summer 2013 - The Discriminating Philistine
Banksy’s wit and talent don’t excuse his vandalism and juvenility.
Spring 2013 - Thoughts on Woolwich
Lee Rigby’s murder tells us as much about contemporary society as it does about radical Islam.
May 29, 2013 - Moody’s Doesn’t Rate
The obvious fragility of British credit
Spring 2013 - Sharks in the Water and Out
On the abuses of “work-related stress”
March 26, 2013 - Beguiled by “Europe”
The E.U.’s supporters seem blind to its dangers and likely dissolution.
March 5, 2013 - Zadie Smith’s London
The novelist explores the tensions of living in a multicultural city.
Winter 2013 - French Tax Hell
The country’s taxes are stifling enough without President Hollande’s confiscatory proposals.
January 15, 2013 - “Justice” Comes to Islington
A London borough makes townhouses available to the poor.
January 2, 2013 - Sentimentalizing Serial Murder
A recent book exemplifies the erosion of moral judgment in Britain.
Autumn 2012 - Newtown’s Unanswerable Questions
It is not likely that psychiatrists could have prevented the massacre.
December 21, 2012 - Silence of the Feminists
So many oppressed Muslim women, so few words about them
December 16, 2012 - His Inhuman Elegance
Oscar Niemeyer, R.I.P.
December 6, 2012 - On the Legalization of Drugs
Living in a civilized society means accepting laws that we didn’t make.
December 5, 2012 - Last of the Sentimental Stalinists
On the passing of Eric Hobsbawm
October 2, 2012 - Freedom of Expression, Without the Expression
A French imam weighs in, unfortunately.
September 26, 2012 - Rejecting the European Project
Daniel Hannan’s book deserves a wide audience.
September 7, 2012 - Hollande’s Onus
The French president is blind to the contradictions of his philosophy.
August 29, 2012 - Universal Mediocrity
Why do Britons like their sub-par health-care system so much?
Summer 2012 - An Orgy of Self-Congratulation
Good riddance to the London Olympics
August 15, 2012 - Empire Games
Reading Gibbon with an eye on the Olympics
August 7, 2012 - North Korea Lite
Thoughts on the Olympics’ opening ceremony
July 31, 2012 - Aurora Beyond Us
No science can explain massacres like last week’s.
July 25, 2012 - Go to Manchester, Young Hoodlum
In Leeds, judges decide on a novel approach: stiff prison sentences for burglary.
July 19, 2012 - Protesting Too Much
The British government welcomes French tax cheats but condemns its own.
June 29, 2012 - A Continental Fantasy
Simple-mindedness and megalomania characterize the “European project.”
May 31, 2012 - Ball Hogs
Racism and misplaced outrage on the British soccer field
Spring 2012 - Erecting a Tomb to Irish Sovereignty
Frank Buckley’s installation embodies Ireland’s financial catastrophe.
April 27, 2012 - Leniency and Its Costs
In Britain, the bill comes due.
April 24, 2012 - A Little “Respect” Goes a Long Way
The odious George Galloway wins a parliamentary election in Britain.
April 6, 2012 - Scotland’s Choice
Independence could arouse national pride; it might also force self-sufficiency.
March 22, 2012 - Rotting from the Head Down
A member of Britain’s intellectual elite celebrates his nation’s social collapse.
March 8, 2012 - The European Crack-Up
Greeks aren’t Germans.
Winter 2012 - The Less Deceived
In Britain, school inspections have been a charade.
January 10, 2012 - Revelry and Mayhem
Is that British youths enjoying themselves—or killing someone?
January 5, 2012 - Barbarians on the Thames
A postmortem of the British riots
Autumn 2011 - Here and After
Political warrior David Horowitz reflects on life and death.
November 4, 2011 - The “Disgrace” of the Majority
To the disbelief of left-wing media, most Britons want a referendum on EU membership.
November 2, 2011 - The Currents of Islam
In Belgium and elsewhere, Muslims face a choice between secularism or radicalization.
September 28, 2011 - Sloppy Riot Thinking
Are pre-2008 bankers the moral equivalents of British looters?
August 15, 2011 - British Degeneracy on Parade
The riots should surprise no one who’s been paying attention.
August 10, 2011 - Austerity in the U.K.
Britain discovers that shrinking government is a lot harder than expanding it.
Summer 2011 - Clientelism on the Defensive
In France and England, high-profile stories suggest weariness with state-run education systems.
June 27, 2011 - Murder Most Academic
A British Ph.D. candidate puts “homicide studies” into practice.
Spring 2011 - The Guzmán Parallel
Bin Laden’s downfall resembled that of the Shining Path’s fanatical leader.
May 2, 2011 - How the Irish Bubble Burst
The Emerald Isle’s story is a microcosm of the global economic crisis.
February 23, 2011 - The Welsh Chekhov
The unjustly neglected Rhys Davies wrote about human frailty with compassion.
Winter 2011 - The Virus of Hysteria
Paul Offit’s new book chronicles the destructive impact of the anti-vaccination movement.
February 1, 2011 - A Civilized Man
John Gross, R.I.P.
January 21, 2011 - Jobs Out of Thin Air
The perils of economic mythmaking in Tunisia—and Europe
January 19, 2011 - Riots Present and Future
The recent unrest in Tunisia and Algeria could well come to Western European nations.
January 11, 2011 - A Man of Letters
Denis Dutton, R.I.P.
December 29, 2010 - The Vandals in Retreat
Britain rediscovers its architectural heritage.
Autumn 2010 - When Predators Don’t Prey
Another good word bites the dust.
December 21, 2010 - What’s Really Wrong with WikiLeaks
The dissolution of privacy is a fundamental aim of totalitarianism.
December 2, 2010 - Solidarity Forever
It’s heartwarming to see youth of all races and genders banding together in common idiocy.
November 26, 2010 - Pork Politics
Why do French students want a lower retirement age?
October 19, 2010 - To Kill a Fly
On the perils of postmodern moral reasoning
September 10, 2010 - Modernity’s Uninvited Guest
Civilization makes progress, but evil persists.
Summer 2010 - Notes on the World Cup
The British and French teams reflected social problems back home.
July 20, 2010 - Sympathy Deformed
Misguided compassion hurts the poor.
Spring 2010 - Know Thyself
Rather than pointing fingers, Greek citizens should look in the mirror.
May 7, 2010 - When Freedom Isn’t Free
In Britain, compulsory virtue stifles individual liberty.
April 14, 2010 - The Fix Is In
Why Britain’s National Health Service spends so much and does so little
March 22, 2010 - The Galbraith Revival
The aristocratic economist’s big-government ideas are back in vogue.
Winter 2010 - Still Open
In Britain, an ethnic group’s social mobility depends on its own culture, not government largesse.
January 29, 2010 - Haiti’s Apocalypse
This week’s earthquake adds a nightmarish chapter to a tragic history.
January 15, 2010 - The Architect as Totalitarian
Le Corbusier’s baleful influence
Autumn 2009 - Intrusions
In Britain, private arrangements are less and less private.
October 14, 2009 - It’s Only Anti-Social
In Britain, the seriousness of an offense depends on who the victim is.
October 1, 2009 - Inflation’s Moral Hazard
An age of loose money not only destroys savings; it corrodes character.
Summer 2009 - Modernists in Medieval Clothing
Kenan Malik traces Islamic terror to twentieth-century influences.
July 16, 2009 - A Modern Witch Trial
Racism: the charge against which there is no defense
Spring 2009 - Between Experience and Reflection
Paul Hollander anatomizes ideology, evil, and human contradiction.
April 27, 2009 - The Rosenbergs, Always
Liberals remain soft on Communism.
April 9, 2009 - The Two Frances
One a bourgeois paradise; the other, an urban fear zone
April 7, 2009 - Slip of a Lip
In Britain, people’s words show their acceptance of everyday violence.
March 5, 2009 - The Persistence of Ideology
Grand ideas still drive history.
Winter 2009 - When Hooligans Bach Down
Strike up Johann Sebastian and watch them scatter.
January 29, 2009 - Riders or Citizens?
Multinational passengers on a French train hold little in common.
January 27, 2009 - Reading the Signs
Gestural politics and disturbing reality at a Paris Metro stop
January 6, 2009 - No Country for Young Children
More horrific tales of child abuse from Britain
December 4, 2008 - The Quivering Upper Lip
The British character: from self-restraint to self-indulgence
Autumn 2008 - Pot, Meet Kettle
Vulgarity is for rightists, say vulgarians on the left.
November 19, 2008 - Slouching Toward Fanaticism
Passionate intensity, but little rationality, in the anti-immunization movement
November 14, 2008 - Careful What You Wish For
Two novelists portray the allure—and limitations—of liberation.
October 24, 2008 - Protect the Burglars of Bromsgrove!
A British town puts thieves’ safety first.
October 20, 2008 - Childhood’s End
Britain, land of bleak houses and low expectations
Summer 2008 - Seer of Evil
Alexander Solzhenitsyn rendered illusion not just stupid, but wicked.
August 13, 2008 - La Cité, C’est Moi
Vainglorious French architects set out to destroy Paris.
July 22, 2008 - Grading on a Curse
British students get marks for obscenity.
July 11, 2008 - Europe’s Unhappy Union
Political elites continue to push unification against their constituents’ wishes.
June 18, 2008 - An “Essential Quality”
A French court recognizes virginity—or lack thereof—as grounds for annulment.
June 5, 2008 - A Confusion of Tongues
Why Britain struggles to assimilate immigrants
Spring 2008 - No Contrition, No Penalty
Britain barely punishes even the most psychopathic behavior.
April 8, 2008 - Delusions of Virtue
We should hope Hillary Clinton’s Bosnia tale was a lie—and not a fantasy.
April 3, 2008 - Morality and Spitzer
The governor’s fall is not an argument for de-moralizing social policy.
March 14, 2008 - The Marriage of Reason and Nightmare
Novelist J. G. Ballard exposes the fragility of the affluent society.
Winter 2008 - Accommodating Islamic Law?
Archbishop Rowan Williams foolishly rolls out the red carpet for British sharia.
February 11, 2008 - King’s Dream, His Nightmare
An American professor rejects nonviolence for blacks.
January 22, 2008 - Mind Forg’d Manacles
The Left’s belief in the helplessness of the poor is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
January 3, 2008 - Separation Anxiety
Divorcees are bad for the environment. Do environmentalists care?
December 27, 2007 - No Security
Britain is failing in its most basic duty to its citizens.
November 20, 2007 - The Problem With Leniency
France’s early release of Bernard Cantat sends the wrong message.
November 6, 2007 - What the New Atheists Don’t See
To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
Autumn 2007 - Crime and Elite Stupidity
For the French paper of record, criminals are the real victims.
October 19, 2007 - Cameras, Crooks, and Deterrence
Constant surveillance seems to have had little effect on Britain’s sky-high crime.
October 16, 2007 - Islam, the Marxism of Our Time
Some troubling signs in Europe
September 17, 2007 - Time Out Londonistan
A modest proposal, or a radical plot?
Summer 2007 - How Societies Commit Suicide
Scots and Italians surrender to Islam.
August 17, 2007 - Thanks for the Immunity
Maurice Hilleman was one of the twentieth century’s unsung heroes.
July 20, 2007 - Delusions of Honesty
Tony Blair’s domestic legacy: corruption and the erosion of liberty
Summer 2007 - Breaking Away
An ex-Islamist tells his story.
June 19, 2007 - Avanti, Dr. Kevorkian!
There may be an overseas market for the doctor’s services.
June 12, 2007 - The British Way of Murder
Surveillance won’t guarantee good behavior.
April 9, 2007 - Engineering Souls
The British tolerance police seek to remake language and the family.
Spring 2007 - A Drinker of Infinity
Arthur Koestler’s life and work embodied the existential dilemmas of our age.
Spring 2007 - Leveling Britain
Mediocrity on the march
March 22, 2007 - Modern Predestination
The dangerous notion that misconduct is genetic
February 6, 2007 - The Cost of Frivolity
Is a national culture of pop, fashion, and gambling enough to resist our enemies?
February 1, 2007 - Sensitivity Lesson
You better watch what you say in today’s Britain.
January 19, 2007 - Global Runaround
The modern world isn’t always more efficient.
January 6, 2007 - Dhimming the Light
Will England’s libraries submit to sharia?
Winter 2007 - Rewarding Bad Behavior
The British lead the way.
Winter 2007 - The Real Meaning of Barbarism
England’s penal system isn’t punitive enough.
Winter 2007 - How Not to Do It
Nothing works in the omnicompetent state.
Winter 2007 - The Eternal Present
Shropshire Diarist
Winter 2007 - Do Iraqis Have Free Will?
Not according to liberals.
December 18, 2006 - Fear of the Invisible
Epidemiologist John Snow made cities safer.
December 7, 2006 - A Man Out of Time
A life of poet R. S. Thomas entertains and illumines.
November 6, 2006 - The Gift of Language
No, Dr. Pinker, it’s not just from nature.
Autumn 2006 - Surreal London
There are 1,200 stabbings and $1 million houses.
Autumn 2006 - Talking Turkey
The E.U. aspirant needs free-speech lessons.
Autumn 2006 - What Makes Doctor Johnson Great?
His character illuminates every word he wrote.
Autumn 2006 - The Avant-Garde of the Apocalypse
The Dutch and their Muslims
October 25, 2006 - Are Belgian Women Endangered?
For now, only if they’re Muslim.
September 19, 2006 - “Treating” Drug Abuse
If you can bribe drug abusers to stay off drugs, doesn’t that mean they can quit anytime?
August 25, 2006 - Vox Populi
Were Britons unreasonable to refuse to fly with Muslims?
August 24, 2006 - A Little Social Experiment
On a London street, “social” housing encourages antisocial egotism.
August 10, 2006 - Dependency as Independence?
The teen mum’s confused choice
August 3, 2006 - Subsidized Stupidity
Rather than elevate the culture, the BBC degrades it—at public expense.
July 21, 2006 - Power to the Pedophiles
The real danger of a Dutch court’s loony decision
July 19, 2006 - Hobbesian Soccer
To European louts, Zidane’s head-butt was an honorable act.
July 13, 2006 - The Terrorists Among Us
It’s not just Islam, but the tension between Islam and Western modernity, that makes them tick.
Summer 2006 - Crime and Indulgence
In today’s Britain, only the lawful fear the law.
Summer 2006 - Real Crime, Fake Justice
A scathing, politically incorrect book by an ex-probation officer tells some harsh truths.
Summer 2006 - All or Nothing
The quest for a moderate Islam may be futile.
June 4, 2006 - Fashionable Guerrillas
For the Left, noble revolutionaries are always in style.
May 23, 2006 - Growing Up British
The sordid is all too typical.
April 28, 2006 - The Murderer Next Door
The limits of sociobiology
April 24, 2006 - Greek or Turk?
Bruce Clark’s exploration of a conflicted history raises profound questions of politics and national identity.
April 4, 2006 - Anti-Semitism Without Anti-Semites
Britain’s leading paper omits a key detail about attacks on French Jews.
Spring 2006 - It’s This Bad
Spring 2006 - Vanishing Decencies
North Wales Diarist
Spring 2006 - Vive l’Inégalité
Privileged French students demonstrate to preserve their entitlement.
March 17, 2006 - Profumo After the Affair
Remembered for the scandal that bears his name, John Profumo died an honorable man.
March 15, 2006 - British Freedom and Muslim Discipline
The real plight of Mrs. Blair’s clients
March 13, 2006 - Red Ken, the Odious
The latest controversy surrounding London’s left-wing mayor reflects discredit on British society.
March 9, 2006 - Why New Vaccines Are Scarce
Blame the tort lawyers, argues Paul Offit’s important new book.
March 6, 2006 - Viva Voltaire
In the cartoon controversy, it’s the French who’ve been courageous, the Americans and British spineless.
February 10, 2006 - No Beheadings, Please, We’re British.
Appeasing Muslim extremists means surrendering Western liberties.
February 6, 2006 - France’s New Serfdom
Après statism, le déluge?
January 30, 2006 - Less Liberté Means Less Egalité
Economic liberty undercuts prejudice—not that the French notice.
Winter 2006 - Dangerous History
In Europe, the past continues to haunt the present.
Winter 2006 - The Empty Fanatic
The Belgian suicide bomber’s embrace of Islamic terror may not be so hard to understand.
Winter 2006 - A Prophetic and Violent Masterpiece
Winter 2006 - Autos-da-fé
European Diarist
Winter 2006 - Strange Hero-Worship
The death of a dissolute soccer star sends England into a frenzy of ersatz grief.
December 6, 2005 - Drug Quandaries
Dutch officials don’t know what to do about Holland’s drug culture.
November 21, 2005 - The Expense of Spirit
A lesbian’s sperm donor is hoist with his own petard.
October 25, 2005 - Wrapping Islam in Europe’s Mantle
An artist asks: Should Europe want Turkey; should Turkey want Europe?
October 24, 2005 - The Suicide Bombers Among Us
The 7/7 solution to an insoluble conflict
Autumn 2005 - Truth vs. Theory
Autumn 2005 - Law Isn’t Enough
London Diarist
Autumn 2005 - You Must Be Healthy
For British health officials, liberty doesn’t count.
September 20, 2005 - Further Feminist Foolishness
A famous writer sees little difference between British women 50 years ago and Muslim women today.
August 29, 2005 - Ethical Pornographers?
Two Norwegians’ perverse campaign to save the rain forests.
August 26, 2005 - The Triumph of Reason?
Why bad theories never die
July 27, 2005 - P*ss Off, Copper
Why don’t we do it in the road?
July 26, 2005 - Mixed-up Malaysia
In this modernizing nation, harsh Islamic laws and loosening mores uneasily coexist.
July 21, 2005 - Ibsen and His Discontents
Summer 2005 - Colbert vs. Smith?
Britain and France aren’t so different when it comes to the role of the state.
Summer 2005 - In the Asylum
Summer 2005 - Flower of Evil?
Bucharest Diarist
Summer 2005 - Missing the Point
Banning sharp kitchen knives won’t cut Britain’s violent crime.
June 2, 2005 - Thomas Friedman Mismeasures Tony Blair
The prime minister is a poor model for U.S. Democrats
May 3, 2005 - Squaring Circles
The French can still reason their way to falsehood.
April 29, 2005 - Blair’s Banana Republic?
A new Labour Party scheme to allow voting by mail is a recipe for corruption.
April 19, 2005 - High and Low
Calcutta Diarist
Spring 2005 - The Roads to Serfdom
Spring 2005 - Welfare-to-Work’s New Thrust
Germany looks to the oldest profession to get people off the dole.
February 3, 2005 - Britain’s Sham Unemployment Drop
The U.K. goes further down the road to serfdom.
January 28, 2005 - Sham Diversity
Jamaican homosexuals and the limits of liberal tolerance.
January 19, 2005 - Trying to Offend
A little common sense would have eased a conflict between free expression and community sensitivities.
January 5, 2005 - Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
A criminologist spins numbers—and ignores the reality of crime.
Winter 2005 - The Specters Haunting Dresden
Winter 2005 - A Murderess’s Tale
Winter 2005 - Why Theo Van Gogh Was Murdered
The filmmaker focused on the shameful abuse of Muslim women by Muslim men in Europe.
November 15, 2004 - The Sob Factor
Quiet grief and private dignity are now things of the past.
November 11, 2004 - Les intellos Speak
For French elites, George W. Bush’s re-election signals the start of fascism in America.
November 10, 2004 - Torn Jeans
The politics of a fashion statement
Autumn 2004 - Inclusive Failure
Seeking equality, England dumbs down its schools, to nobody’s benefit.
Autumn 2004 - The Frivolity of Evil
Autumn 2004 - The Prince of Poisoners
Stafford Diarist
Autumn 2004 - Kafka’s Victory
Add the EU to the welfare state, and simple problems become insoluble.
October 18, 2004 - Jihad Chic
Over the suicide belt, it’s a mixed fashion statement.
September 13, 2004 - Who Needs Parents?
Britain’s latest effort to undermine the family
August 12, 2004 - Leftist of Privilege
How the press loves a moneyed radical!
July 20, 2004 - Curing the Soul
Alcoholism is a vice, not a fate.
July 15, 2004 - Selective Memory
For British elites, the distant past excuses the bad behavior of the present.
July 6, 2004 - Multiculturalism Starts Losing Its Luster
Summer 2004 - Discontent in Paradise
Tuscan Diarist
Summer 2004 - Clinton Psychobabble
The former president feels his own pain.
Summer 2004 - Addicted to Self
What would illegal drug users give up to fight terror?
June 28, 2004 - London’s Bonfire of the Vanities
Much of the Saatchi Collection goes up in smoke.
May 28, 2004 - When Islam Breaks Down
What the West can learn from the Muslim youths who throng my city’s prisons.
Spring 2004 - Victimhood Equals Heroism
A competition to erect a new statue says a lot about today’s England.
Spring 2004 - Who Killed Childhood?
Spring 2004 - Lo, the Poor Terrorist
For some on the Left, purported bigotry against Muslims explains Islamist terror.
January 20, 2004 - A Right to Trashy TV
A new proposal threatens to sink British social policy to another new low.
January 8, 2004 - The Case for Cannibalism
If everything is permissible between consenting adults, why not?
January 5, 2004 - A Neglected Genius
Winter 2004 - Reality Leaves Satire Behind
U.K. Diarist
Winter 2004 - Sex and the Shakespeare Reader
Autumn 2003 - The Multi-Culti Barbarian
Has multicultural indoctrination made us less sensitive to the mores of different societies?
September 9, 2003 - The Europe of Yesterday
The ghosts of the past still haunt the
European Union.
August 6, 2003 - The Real World
. . . without a TV screen
July 11, 2003 - Smearing Orwell
Elites now admit communism was bad—but fighting it prematurely was worse.
Summer 2003 - What’s Wrong with Twinkling Buttocks?
Summer 2003 - Missing the Big Issue
You can’t rehabilitate prisoners unless you try.
May 7, 2003 - The Multi-Culti Menu
Multiculturalism doesn’t discriminate—between right and wrong, true and false, or anything else.
May 6, 2003 - Swept Away
According to Lemrick Nelson’s “40-ounce” defense, nobody is ever guilty of anything.
May 2, 2003 - A Revealing Exchange . . .
. . . discloses an upside down moral universe.
May 2, 2003 - Blaming the Victim
For British psychiatrists, the real victims are those behind bars.
April 25, 2003 - France's Headscarf Problem
How should a western democracy accommodate Islam?
April 23, 2003 - “There Was Violence Used”
For today’s liberals, crime is like the weather—it has nothing to do with human agency.
April 21, 2003 - Less Than Zero Tolerance
The British approach will give this idea a bad name.
April 9, 2003 - After Empire
Spring 2003 - Live and Let Live—for Now
Cairo Diarist
Spring 2003 - Not All Cultures Are Equal
For young British blacks, academic success means facing ridicule from their black peers.
Spring 2003 - Treating Burglars
England’s chief justice seems to think burglary is not a crime but a disease.
March 13, 2003 - UK Profs Nix Israel
Their sympathy for Arabs is one more example of compassion as contempt.
February 4, 2003 - Why Shakespeare Is For All Time
Winter 2003 - A “Free” Fix?
Pity the poor dope fiend.
Winter 2003 - Prison Porn
A “human rights” campaign defines deviancy up.
Winter 2003 - The People's Princess
The latest revelations about Princess Diana reflect poorly on her and on the celebrity cult that surrounds her.
November 19, 2002 - Goodbye to Prison Discipline
The meddlesome European Court of Human Rights undermines order in Britain’s prisons.
November 12, 2002 - The New Inquisitors
In today’s England, officials demand proper deference to multiculti pieties.
November 5, 2002 - The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris
Surrounding the City of Light are threatening Cities of Darkness.
Autumn 2002 - The Starving Criminal
Autumn 2002 - How Not to Encourage Assimilation
English educators are rebuilding the Tower of Babel.
August 13, 2002 - Behind the Veil
An outbreak of militant Islam contained in a British medical school.
July 30, 2002 - The British Left Goes Anti-Semitic
Socialism and anti-Semitism are closely related worldviews.
July 23, 2002 - Crime is Law, Law is Crime
The disaffected Muslim youth of Lille, France are at war with society.
July 18, 2002 - Theory vs. Reality? The French Choose Theory
European elites refuse to see the connection between family breakdown and spiraling crime.
July 15, 2002 - That's Mister Hyde to You
These days, the respectable get no respect—and the disrespectable do.
July 11, 2002 - Why Havana Had to Die
Summer 2002 - An Undismal Economist
London Diarist
Summer 2002 - Theoretical Criminals
Academic criminologists would rather be mugged than admit that policing caused New York’s crime turnaround.
Summer 2002 - Turning Kids Against Parents
England’s flirtation with children’s rights bodes ill.
Summer 2002 - The Rage of Virginia Woolf
Summer 2002 - A Terrorist Returns
A distinguished London academic institution rolls out the red carpet for a Palestinian hijacker.
May 31, 2002 - How PC Boosts Le Pen
The French demagogue won by addressing reasonable concerns about Arab immigration and French identity that other politicians ducked.
April 25, 2002 - Nanny Knows Best
In Britain, the state is infantalizing everybody.
April 24, 2002 - The Morality of Terror
. . . assumes that the means justify the end.
April 16, 2002 - Trivializing the Holocaust II
Auschwitz Isn’t a Metaphor.
April 12, 2002 - The Man Who Predicted the Race Riots
Spring 2002 - The Most Politically Correct Magazine in the World
. . . weighs in on the causes of war.
February 25, 2002 - The Economist Sees No Evil
. . . while crime and disorder lap at its London doorstep.
February 20, 2002 - Gillray’s Ungloomy Morality
Winter 2002 - ‘Ang ‘em
Criminals have no illusions about how to fight crime.
Winter 2002 - What We Have to Lose
Our civilization is more precious, and more fragile, than most people suppose.
Autumn 2001 - The Dystopian Imagination
Autumn 2001 - Who’s to Blame?
Some foolishness is not personal but political.
Autumn 2001 - How—and How Not—to Love Mankind
Summer 2001 - The Uses of Corruption
Summer 2001 - Puffing Puff Daddy
Beware of the elites bearing praise.
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
New York Diarist
Winter 2001 - Seeing Is Not Believing
Autumn 2000 - Free at Last
EU Diarist
Autumn 2000 - All Sex, All the Time
Summer 2000 - Lost in the Ghetto
Summer 2000 - Multiculti Museums—Or Else
The U.K. will cut funds for museums that don’t draw minority visitors.
Summer 2000 - A Coda
In England these days, right is wrong, and wrong is right.
Summer 2000 - How to Read a Society
Spring 2000 - Benetton’s Evil Ads I: Righteous Consumerism
A new ad campaign celebrating convicted murderers is the ultimate in radical chic . . .
Spring 2000 - Why Brits Love Iron Mike
Throngs of English fans admire the boxer’s thuggish behavior as authentically black.
Spring 2000 - Policeman in Wonderland
Spring 2000 - Choosing To Fail
Winter 2000 - Ideas That Kill
Bogotá Diarist
Winter 2000 - An F for French Schools
Adopting every foolish tenet of "progressive" ed, French public schools have become as bad as ours.
Winter 2000 - Barbarians on the March
Autumn 1999 - How Criminologists Foster Crime
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
When you’ve seen anarchy, you properly value civilization.
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
Advocates have almost convinced Americans that legalization will remove most of the evil that drugs inflict on society. Don’t believe them.
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’
Beijing Diarist
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”
It is a mistake to suppose that all men, or at least all Englishmen, want to be free.
Autumn 1994
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