Dalrymple reacts in the Salisbury Review to a description of the new French educational program: “In these few words one can see that, culturally if in no other way, the Soviet Union decisively won the Cold War.”
The Skeptical Doctor
Dedicated to the work of Theodore Dalrymple
Oh Theodore, you are wicked to make fun of idiocy. Don’t you know that it is a disease and idiots cannot be blamed for their being afflicted by this debilitating condition. It’s time we demanded equality for idiots, with new laws prohibiting discrimination based on a person’s idiocity quotient.
My son has just passed his baccalaureate with a respectable though not brilliant Mention Assez Bien, the culmination of a year’s conscientious work at a top lycée in Paris. Wherever they’re giving away the bac, it sure ain’t in these parts.