Our favorite doctor dialed in to Chicago’s AM560 radio station in October to opine on the ongoing U.S. state-mandated form of child abuse called ‘gender transitioning.’ The interview kicks off around the 5′ mark.
Dr. Dalrymple takes part in a 100-minute long interview on Dr. Hannah Spier’s Substack called Psychobabble. Dr. Spier’s summary is below:
In this Psychobabble episode, I sit down with Dr. Anthony Daniels also known as Theodore Dalrymple — a psychiatrist, former prison doctor, and acclaimed author known for his incisive critiques of modern psychology and societal trends. We discuss misconceptions in psychology, the links between fatherlessness and criminality, the roots of addiction, why some women tolerate domestic violence and the nature of criminal behaviour and human agency.
In the current issue of The Critic, the skeptical doctor mercilessly criticizes some new trendy nonsense from academia—this time about mankind’s prehistory and ‘unfairness’ in modern sports.
There is no greater power than that over people’s minds, and the exertion of power is a pleasure; indeed the proper (and inevitable) goal of existence, according to some philosophers. The purpose of propaganda is not to spread truth, but to violate individual autonomy.
In his weekly Takimag column, Theodore Dalrymple reflects on the ‘career’ trajectory of the recently deposed, ruthless Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad.
Assad junior will not be wishing the Syrian people well, but rather all the misery in the world for having shown themselves so disgracefully ungrateful to him. It will serve them right!
The good doctor made a short but memorable appearance on NewsNation back in March to opine on one of his favorite topics.
Over at The Epoch Times, our favorite doctor has penned another commentary on the excessively emotional, hysterical, and overly dramatic reactions that have accompanied Donald Trump’s victory in last month’s U.S. presidential elections.
If they had been sentenced to death for the following day, they could hardly have been more emotional, or at least more expressive of emotion, but most of that emotion struck me as bogus, or at least not straightforwardly sincere. It bore the same relation to true feeling as hysterical paralysis does to the physical kind.
In last week’s Takimag column, Dr. Dalrymple points to the spread of the abnormal and utterly diabolical gender ideology to the obligatory electronic register of medical service providers in America.
This amounts to little more than an implicit plea for more regulation by the equity police, who will forever find more categories of inequitably treated people to save from injustice, all at public expense, creating for themselves well-paid, comfortable jobs while sowing mistrust, resentment, and competitive grievance in the population.
Over at The Critic, the dubious doctor raises many valid concerns about the latest law passed in a Western country related to the potentially dangerous and highly unethical medically assisted killing of terminally ill patients.
Thank you to Andrew S. for bringing this article to my attention.
They are assisted in this destruction of their own probity by the corruption of psychiatry, which now finds in all distress, even when self-induced, exaggerated or totally false, a phenomenon in the same category as cholera or multiple sclerosis. This means, in effect, that you are unfit for work if you think you are; for no one can say that you do not feel what you say you feel, and doctors have neither the time nor the inclination to contradict their patients.
Over at Law & Liberty, our astute doctor decides to finally weigh in on the contentious and ‘divisive’ American presidential election last month, which saw the triumphant return of Donald Trump and a resurgent GOP.
When both sides of a political divide think of the other not as the champion of differing policies, but as an existential threat to the political system itself, conflict, even if it remains purely in the verbal sphere, is bound to become more acute. There is a resultant overemphasis on what divides rather than a recognition of what unites; demagoguery is both its cause and its consequence.