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The West Speaks
interviews by Jerry Gordon |
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Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
Emmet Scott |
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Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
Ibn Warraq |
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Anything Goes
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Karimi Hotel
De Nidra Poller |
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The Left is Seldom Right
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion
by Rebecca Bynum |
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Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays
by Ibn Warraq |
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An Introduction to Danish Culture
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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The New Vichy Syndrome:
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Jihad and Genocide
by Richard L. Rubenstein |
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Second Opinion
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Defending The West:
by Ibn Warraq |
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Nations, Language and Citizenship:
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Romancing Opiates
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Which Koran?
by Ibn Warraq |
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Our Culture, What's Left of It
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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What The Koran Really Says
by Ibn Warraq |
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Life at the Bottom
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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The Origins of the Koran
by Ibn Warraq |
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Why I Am Not Muslim
by Ibn Warraq |
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Spanish Vignettes: An Offbeat Look Into Spain's Culture, Society & History
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Leaving Islam
Edited by Ibn Warraq |
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The Danish-German Border Dispute, 1815-2001: Aspects of Cultural and Demographic Politics
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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What's Love Got to Do with It?: Emotions and Relationships in Pop Songs
by Thomas J. Scheff |
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Here are the Blogs in the Theodore Dalrymple category.
Friday, 23 October 2009
Intrusions
Leanne Shepherd and Lucy Jarrett, both 32, are close friends. They work as police officers, but on different shifts. For a long time, they babysat for each other, an arrangement that suited them perfectly and enabled them to continue their careers. The authorities recently told them, however, that their ...Read More...
Posted on 10/23/2009 9:40 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Monday, 19 October 2009
A Musical Interlude: What A Little Moonlight Can Do (Billie Holiday)
Posted on 10/19/2009 8:08 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 2 October 2009
It�s Only Anti-Social
A single case sometimes shines a lurid light on an entire country, and the case of Fiona Pilkington does just that for contemporary Britain—both its population and its officialdom. A coroner’s inquest was recently held in the case, two years after the events in question.
On October 23, ...Read More...
Posted on 10/02/2009 7:51 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Sunday, 20 September 2009
NHS: Spoiled for Choice
Whenever a government minister offers the British people increased choice within a monopoly public service such as the NHS, he acts as if he were an absolute monarch who, from the sheer goodness of his heart, was conferring an inestimable benefit upon the ignorant and impoverished peasantry. He forgets ...Read More...
Posted on 09/20/2009 1:55 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Prince Turki Wants America To Believe It "Needs" Saudi Arabia
Read here.
A few comments:
1) No favors need be done Saudi Arabia -- none. Saudi Arabia sells oil to whomever pays the market price. End of story. There is no more need to do any favors for Saudi Arabia, or for the Al-Saud family, than there would be to offer the man who owns the gas ...Read More...
Posted on 08/25/2009 10:12 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Sunday, 16 August 2009
Smile, You're On Candid Camera
The government, apparently, is thinking of installing closed circuit television cameras in the homes of the 20,000 worst behaved families, or rather households, in Britain, so that they are under surveillance twenty-four hours a day.
I have a better idea, in fact a far better idea: instead of the 20,000 ...Read More...
Posted on 08/16/2009 11:38 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 15 August 2009
A Musical Interlude: A Room With A View (Ben Selvin Orch.,)
Posted on 08/15/2009 10:18 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Sunday, 9 August 2009
Man vs. Mutt
WSJ:
In the last few years, I have had the opportunity to compare the human and veterinary health services of Great Britain, and on the whole it is better to be a dog.
As a British dog, you get to choose (through an intermediary, I admit) your veterinarian. If you don’t like him, you can pick ...Read More...
Posted on 08/09/2009 8:04 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Is There a �Right� to Health Care?
If there is a right to health care, someone has the duty to provide it. Inevitably, that “someone” is the government. Concrete benefits in pursuance of abstract rights, however, can be provided by the government only by constant coercion.
People sometimes argue in favor of a universal human ...Read More...
Posted on 07/29/2009 2:49 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 18 July 2009
Modernists in Medieval Clothing
From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy, by Kenan Malik (Atlantic Books, $39.95)
What is the cause of Islamic fundamentalism and Islamist violence, and why do a few people become suicide bombers? These are the urgent questions that Kenan Malik, a respected and intelligent British journalist ...Read More...
Posted on 07/18/2009 8:15 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Michael Jackson: A Tragedy of Our Times
I must be one of the few people in the western world who would not recognize a song by Michael Jackson. No doubt I have heard one or several of his songs, pumped inescapably into a public place like poison gas, but I have spent a number of decades reducing my exposure to this kind of thing to an absolute ...Read More...
Posted on 06/30/2009 12:19 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Pictures from an Institution
Though I admire decorum, I love scandal. And who does not? To assuage my slight feelings of guilt over such prurience, I persuade myself that my preferred scandals are those that raise complex moral questions, or that illustrate something important about modern society.
The scandal over the Oxford ...Read More...
Posted on 06/17/2009 12:51 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
UPDATE: DC Rally Moved to Israeli Embassy
On Saturday, June 6, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) will be holding a counterprotest in Washington DC which has now MOVED to be near the Israel Embassy from 12 Noon to 3 PM. Our counterprotest will be to those organizations that have a history of supporting Islamic supremacism ...Read More...
Posted on 06/03/2009 8:00 PM by Rebecca Bynum
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Something New Under the Sun
I might be wrong, of course, but I suspect that one could walk down a crowded street for quite a long time before one came across anybody who had heard of Walter Bagehot. This is sufficient to establish that brilliance, energy, enterprise and erudition are not enough by themselves to secure a lasting ...Read More...
Posted on 05/19/2009 7:29 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Friday, 8 May 2009
Bollocks to Vulgarity
Vulgarity is one of those many qualities that it is easier to discern than to define; suffice it to say that there is a lot of it about, perhaps more than ever. At any rate, I notice it more, and it seems to me ever more extreme: a sign, no doubt, of advancing age.
In his essay-length book Vulgarity ...Read More...
Posted on 05/08/2009 7:41 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Friday, 1 May 2009
Between Experience and Reflection
The Only Superpower: Reflections on Strength, Weakness, and Anti-Americanism, by Paul Hollander (Lexington Books, 291 pp., $39.95)
Sociologists do not always write with clarity, let alone with grace. A friend of mine studying sociology once showed me some of the writing of the late Talcott Parsons, ...Read More...
Posted on 05/01/2009 9:36 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
The Marriage of Reason and Nightmare
Despite unprecedented prosperity, we British are not as happy as we should be, at least if the causes of human happiness were mainly economic. It turns out, however, that ever-rising consumption is not the same thing as ever-greater contentment. Yet no one is quite sure what else is necessary. Antidepressants ...Read More...
Posted on 04/22/2009 3:12 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Friday, 17 April 2009
The Rosenbergs, Always
A recent story in the Guardian confirmed my suspicion of a lingering liberal indulgence toward the former Soviet Union. Headlined ORPHANED BY THE STATE, it consisted of an interview with Robert Rosenberg, the younger son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed by electric chair in 1953 for spying on ...Read More...
Posted on 04/17/2009 6:10 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
The Two Frances
To live as God in France: both the Germans and the Dutch use this expression of longing for a life of ease and beauty, for a terrestrial paradise. It’s easy to see why. Dutch friends came to stay in my house in France and found everything enchanting—from the landscape and the weather to ...Read More...
Posted on 04/07/2009 7:04 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Sunday, 8 March 2009
Slip of a Lip
I am not much of a Freudian, but I think that good old Sigmund was on to something when he suggested that small slips of the tongue could sometimes reveal the way people think. For example, when British police spokesmen talk to the press about murders, they often use words like “senseless” ...Read More...
Posted on 03/08/2009 11:18 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 10 January 2009
Cuba: A Cemetery of Hopes
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, the French newspaper, Le Monde, which is vastly more informative about the world than any English-language journal (and therefore loses a lot of money), had a four-page spread.
What was surprising about the tone of three ...Read More...
Posted on 01/10/2009 10:39 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Reading the Signs
How easy everything is in theory, and how difficult in practice!
This thought, by no means original, occurred to me recently on the Paris Metro (in the Réaumur-Sébastopol station, to be exact). I had to change lines there for several days in succession, and on each a terrible smell hung ...Read More...
Posted on 01/07/2009 1:19 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
The Quivering Upper Lip
When my mother arrived in England as a refugee from Nazi Germany, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, she found the people admirable, though not without the defects that corresponded to their virtues. By the time she died, two-thirds of a century later, she found them rude, dishonest, and charmless. ...Read More...
Posted on 12/02/2008 1:34 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Friday, 21 November 2008
Pot, Meet Kettle
The Sunday before the American election, the Observer in London published an assessment of President Bush’s legacy by several well-known American writers. One of them, Tobias Wolff, wrote: “When I see someone being rude to a waiter, or blocking the road in a Ford Expedition, or yakking loudly ...Read More...
Posted on 11/21/2008 10:13 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Monday, 17 November 2008
Slouching Toward Fanaticism
Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, by Paul A. Offit (Columbia University Press, 328 pp., $24.95)
For some reason, the immunization of children has always aroused opposition of almost religious fervor. For example, a mass movement led resistance ...Read More...
Posted on 11/17/2008 9:16 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
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