|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Recent Publications by New English Review Authors |
%20(2).jpg) |
Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
Emmet Scott |
 |
Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
Ibn Warraq |
 |
Anything Goes
by Theodore Dalrymple |
 |
Karimi Hotel
De Nidra Poller |
 |
The Left is Seldom Right
by Norman Berdichevsky |
 |
Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion
by Rebecca Bynum |
 |
Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays
by Ibn Warraq |
 |
An Introduction to Danish Culture
by Norman Berdichevsky |
 |
The New Vichy Syndrome:
by Theodore Dalrymple |
 |
Jihad and Genocide
by Richard L. Rubenstein |
 |
Second Opinion
by Theodore Dalrymple |
 |
Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline
by Theodore Dalrymple |
 |
In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas
by Theodore Dalrymple |
 |
Defending The West:
by Ibn Warraq |
 |
Nations, Language and Citizenship:
by Norman Berdichevsky |
 |
Romancing Opiates
by Theodore Dalrymple |
 |
Which Koran?
by Ibn Warraq |
 |
Our Culture, What's Left of It
by Theodore Dalrymple |
 |
What The Koran Really Says
by Ibn Warraq |
 |
Life at the Bottom
by Theodore Dalrymple |
 |
The Origins of the Koran
by Ibn Warraq |
 |
Why I Am Not Muslim
by Ibn Warraq |
 |
Spanish Vignettes: An Offbeat Look Into Spain's Culture, Society & History
by Norman Berdichevsky |
 |
Leaving Islam
Edited by Ibn Warraq |
 |
The Danish-German Border Dispute, 1815-2001: Aspects of Cultural and Demographic Politics
by Norman Berdichevsky |
 |
What's Love Got to Do with It?: Emotions and Relationships in Pop Songs
by Thomas J. Scheff |
.jpg) 
|
|
Here are the Blogs in the Theodore Dalrymple category.
Thursday, 9 February 2012
The Secret Appeal of Downton Abbey
At heart we are all snobs—whether we acknowledge it or not, however egalitarian we may be in theory and however nervous we might be about our own position in society. Everyone needs (and almost everyone finds) someone to look down on.
But why should Americans, whose republic is founded upon the ...Read More...
Posted on 02/09/2012 5:57 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Sunday, 5 February 2012
Britain is Becoming Less Honest
A lot of academic research goes into proving the obvious: in this case that, as a nation, we are much less honest than we used to be.
Researchers at the University of Essex, working at the Centre for the Study of Integrity (a name in itself to make you smile wanly) have discovered that the British ...Read More...
Posted on 02/05/2012 6:40 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Future Tense, VI: Under the Scientific Bo Tree
Le métier d’homme est difficile.
—Georges Simenon, Le neige était sale
In his memoirs, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says that the philosophy of Moleschott was all the rage when he was a medical student in Edinburgh during the late 1870s and early 1880s. Jacob Moleschott (1822–93) ...Read More...
Posted on 02/04/2012 8:12 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Friday, 3 February 2012
The Erotic Pleasure of Pain
Is flagellation for the purposes of sexual pleasure as English as cricket and buttered crumpets? Not if the forthcoming film about the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, called A Dangerous Method, is to be believed. It is portrayed in the film as being as Swiss as the cuckoo clock.
Actually, ...Read More...
Posted on 02/03/2012 6:34 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Hard Times Again
We live in hard times, and all the indications are that they may get much, even very much, harder. No one, at any rate, would take a bet that they won’t.
The number of children in America claiming subsidized meals in school has shot up; the homeless are increasing by the hour; the formerly prosperous ...Read More...
Posted on 02/01/2012 9:37 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 21 January 2012
Obligatory Courage
Courage is a virtue and heroism is admirable, but do we have a right to demand them? Which of us cannot look back on his or her own life and remember decisions, or compromises made, or silences kept because of cowardice, even when the penalties for courage were negligible?
If we are cowardly in ...Read More...
Posted on 01/21/2012 6:18 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Thursday, 19 January 2012
The European Crack-Up
A Belgian journalist who interviewed me recently about the European debt crisis asked me whether I believed in the European Project. I replied that I would answer her question—if she would tell me what the European Project actually was. By revealing my doubts, I proved to her that I suffered from ...Read More...
Posted on 01/19/2012 6:13 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Carrying On The Great Tradition of Polysyllabic Blindness
If le style c’est l’homme meme (the style is the man), goodness knows what the authors of an editorial in the latest New England Journal of Medicine must be like; cyborgs, I should think. Here is a sample:
In addition, the guidelines attempt to democratize the governance process for ...Read More...
Posted on 01/17/2012 7:23 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Sunday, 15 January 2012
A Window on the Soul of Society
George Orwell was interested in pulp fiction as a window on the soul of society, and the football pages of our newspapers are interesting for the same reason. They will no doubt prove invaluable to social historians of the future.
For myself, I cannot recapture the interest in the game that I had as ...Read More...
Posted on 01/15/2012 5:50 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Thursday, 12 January 2012
The Less Deceived
Wherever one looks in Britain, one sees an insidious kind of corruption: not the obvious, money-under-the-table variety, but something even worse and in the long run more corrosive because it is more difficult to eradicate. It is a deep moral and intellectual corruption.
The Times Educational Supplement ...Read More...
Posted on 01/12/2012 5:46 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Monday, 9 January 2012
Revelry and Mayhem
The full beauty and refinement of contemporary British culture were evident in a short item in the Guardian this week:
Four people died at the weekend following attacks during New Year’s Eve parties in Luton, Sheffield, London, and Toft Monk in Norfolk. A teenage girl and boy were arrested in ...Read More...
Posted on 01/09/2012 6:58 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
The Reality of Human Kindness
IF human beings were not capable of goodness, instances of their badness would come as neither a shock nor a surprise to us.
Humanity is no more composed of completely selfish brutes than it is of completely selfless angels.
On an average day you probably come across more instances of kindness ...Read More...
Posted on 01/03/2012 5:44 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
Of Vested Interests and Anti-Smoking Campaigners
When does an interest become vested? Generally, I suppose, when it is an interest in something of which you disapprove. No one would suggest, for example, that an oncologist had a vested interest in cancer merely because cancer was the sine qua non of his calling. Only those who derive an income from ...Read More...
Posted on 12/27/2011 11:16 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Friday, 23 December 2011
Wealth and Health
In general, health and money go together, and there is no population known to me in which the poorer are healthier than the rich.
A short article in The Lancet titled “Health Effects of Financial Crisis: Omens of a Greek Tragedy” deals with the health consequences of the implosion ...Read More...
Posted on 12/23/2011 7:04 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Assaults on NHS Staff: The Statistics, The Response
If anyone needed persuading of the deep moral disarray of modern British society, the latest figures on assaults against National Health Service staff should be more than sufficient to convince him. It is not so much their overall number — though 57,830 in a year seems quite a lot to me — ...Read More...
Posted on 12/13/2011 7:40 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 10 December 2011
Rationing Viagra Won't Boost NHS Performance
According to the World Health Organisation, health is not merely the absence of disease but the presence of complete social, psychological and physical wellbeing. And since everybody is the best judge of his own wellbeing, it follows that he who does not have his heart’s desire, and frets over ...Read More...
Posted on 12/10/2011 6:29 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Friday, 9 December 2011
Barbarians on the Thames
Complex human events have no single or final explanation. The last word on the outbreak of looting and rioting that convulsed large parts of England, including London, in August will therefore never be heard. But some of the first words were foolish, or at least shallow, reflecting the typical materialistic ...Read More...
Posted on 12/09/2011 6:54 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Government Health Warning
Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others
James Gilligan
Polity Press, 180pp.
Few men are prepared to die for the right of others to say what they strongly disagree with; and most people’s faith in multiparty democracy is at best a lukewarm recognition that the alternative is much ...Read More...
Posted on 12/08/2011 5:30 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Life Worth Living
Euthanasia has a tendency to slide from the voluntary to the compulsory, as people increasingly make judgments on behalf of others as to what is a human life worth living. The opinion is widespread that the persistent vegetative state — the condition in which a person with some kind of brain injury ...Read More...
Posted on 12/06/2011 12:33 PM by Theodore Dalrymple
Sunday, 27 November 2011
Dr. Shakespeare
A retired gastroenterologist in Somerset, Dr Kenneth Heaton, has concluded that if doctors knew their Shakespeare better, they would order fewer unnecessary (and expensive) tests for symptoms of psychological origin: for no one ever described or understood those symptoms better than Shakespeare.
In ...Read More...
Posted on 11/27/2011 6:02 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Some Victims Are More Equal than Others
Even the greatest penological liberal has at least one type of crime that he wishes to punish severely and with exemplary zeal, however much he may decry the principle of punishment as retribution or deterrence. In the case of the Guardian newspaper, the crime that it most deprecates is that against ...Read More...
Posted on 11/22/2011 7:10 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 19 November 2011
Book Review: The Brain is Wider Than the Sky by Bryan Appleyard
Some years ago I had a patient who believed that his neighbours, unskilled workers like himself, had developed an electronic thought-scanner whose antennae they could, and did, direct at him in order to know his thoughts as and when he had them. He heard them laughing and jeering at the banalities with ...Read More...
Posted on 11/19/2011 7:17 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Saturday, 12 November 2011
Here and After
Death is every life’s inevitable denouement, but La Rochefoucauld told us that we can no more stare it in the face than we can stare at the sun. For the most part, we continue our daily round in a state of presumed immortality, and because we are so unfamiliar nowadays with death—it having ...Read More...
Posted on 11/12/2011 9:41 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Monday, 7 November 2011
A Case in Point
You can tell that the economy of East Anglia is more flourishing than that of the West Midlands because the fine for drunken vomiting in the back of the taxis of Peterborough is £50, whereas it is only £40 for doing so in the back of the taxis of Wolverhampton.
The other difference between ...Read More...
Posted on 11/07/2011 6:16 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
Sunday, 6 November 2011
The “Disgrace” of the Majority
An editorial in the Guardian on October 25 exposed the nature of what often is called “the European project”: a goal that those pursuing it never state out loud. In brief, it is the construction of a huge power bloc under the domination of a self-perpetuating political class and its auxiliary ...Read More...
Posted on 11/06/2011 5:46 AM by Theodore Dalrymple
|
|
|
|
|
|
Most Recent Posts at The Iconoclast
Search The Iconoclast
The Iconoclast Posts by Author
The Iconoclast Archives
RSS Site Feed
|
|
.jpg)
.jpg)
