Over at Australia’s Quadrant, our dubious doctor lampoons the shameful theatrics of a leftist Australian senator obnoxiously expressing her ‘aboriginal’ opposition—while dressed in animal fur—to King Charles’ visit.
And just as any port will do in a storm, so any supposed oppressor will do once the desire for martyrisation by oppression takes over a person’s mind. And since life is indeed full of little inconveniences, it is not difficult to find a scapegoat supposedly responsible for them all.
In the January issue of New Criterion, our bookish doctor considers the ruminations of famous condemned men on life, death, and freedom.
More than one writer has been condemned to death and lived to tell the tale, most famously, perhaps, Dostoevsky. He was before the firing squad, his eyes blindfolded, when he learned of his reprieve. Apparently, the tsar, Nicholas I, had never intended to have him shot: he wanted, first, to give all potential rebels and dissenters a fright, and, second, to appear generously merciful.
In last week’s Takimag, the good doctor penned a piece on battling flies with the latest ‘eco-friendly’ flypaper in his French country house.
We would like to wish all of our readers and fans of Theodore Dalrymple a peaceful, joyous, and blessed Christmas.
Naturally, I am not in favor of companies behaving immorally, for example by unmercifully exploiting people or by carelessly polluting the area round their own factories, but I wish we could sometimes have a rest from the epidemic of high-mindedness that afflicts our times and which, by reaction, introduces wicked thoughts into our minds.
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.